Senior Director, Product Innovation

Veralto; Wood Dale (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Veralto is seeking a Senior Product leader to drive 5-year roadmaps for coding and marking technologies. You will lead market insight, competitive analysis, and customer-centric innovation, delivering multi-year strategies and strong business cases.

You will partner with R&D and engineering to define innovations, cultivate external partnerships, and own the Incremental Pipeline Value metric to meet growth targets. A high-performing team and strategic leadership emphasis are required.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management, product innovation, or product strategy within a B2B industrial technology, manufacturing, or hardware/software company.
• Proven track record of building and delivering multi-year product roadmaps with measurable incremental revenue.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing product or innovation teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of 5-year product roadmaps for products and solutions across coding and marking technologies, aligned with corporate strategy.
• Drive market insight and competitive analysis, including future scenario planning over a 5-year horizon.
• Communicate product innovation strategy to senior leadership and secure buy-in at quarterly reviews.
• Champion customer-centric innovation through Product Innovation Managers and UX teams via extensive market research.
• Build compelling business cases for emerging opportunities and integrate into the 5-year roadmap to support growth targets.
• Partner with VP R&D and engineering to define new product innovations and roadmaps.
• Drive strategic partnerships with external providers and evaluate open innovation opportunities.
• Develop Standard Work for Customer Insights using VES and related tools.
• Own Incremental Pipeline Value as a primary financial metric in the 5-year growth plan.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, set strategic direction, and foster bold innovation.
• Contribute to broader strategic initiatives with senior leadership.

Skills

Product management

Product innovation

Product strategy

Market research

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, Marketing, or related discipline

Job description

In this role, you will:

In this role, you will:

• Lead the creation of 5-year product roadmaps for products & solutions across all coding and marking technologies that align with Videojet's corporate strategy and balance risk for the business.

• Drive deep market insight and competitive analysis—including future scenario building to anticipate industry changes and unmet customer needs over a 5-year horizon.

• Communicate product innovation strategy and secure buy-in from the President and Vice Presidents at quarterly Strategic Innovation Review meetings.

• Champion customer-centric innovation by leveraging a team of Product Innovation Managers and User Experience teams to identify unmet customer needs and desired outcomes through extensive qualitative and quantitative customer and market research.

• Build compelling new business cases around emerging opportunities and incorporate them into the product roadmap to support the company's 5-year-old growth targets.

• Partner with the VP R&D, and engineering teams to define new product innovations, technology success criteria, roadmaps, and business opportunities.

• Drive strategic business partnerships with external providers of product innovations and evaluate third-party and open innovation partners to assure profitable business models.

• Develop Standard Work for Customer Insights leveraging VES and other relevant tools

• Own the team's primary financial metric—Incremental Pipeline Value from New Product Development to achieve the company's 5-year forecasted growth targets.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Product Innovation Managers and User Experience Team, set strategic direction, coaching for career growth, and cultivating a culture of bold innovation.

• Contribute to and lead select Videojet strategic initiatives beyond the core product roadmap, in partnership with senior leadership.

What We're Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

These are the must-have requirements for the role:

• Extensive experience in product management, product innovation, or product strategy within a B2B industrial technology, manufacturing, or hardware/software company.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related discipline.

• Proven track record of building and delivering multi-year product roadmaps that generated measurable incremental revenue and drove competitive differentiation.

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing product or innovation teams with direct people management responsibility.

• Experience with market research methodologies, customer discovery, competitive landscape analysis, and executive-level business case development.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders through compelling, data-driven strategy communication.

Preferred Qualifications

These are nice-to-have skills that will set candidates apart:

• Experience in the coding, marking, printing, or industrial automation industry.

• MBA or advanced degree in a business or technical discipline.

• Background in open innovation, technology scouting, or strategic external partnership development.

• Familiarity with stage-gate, lean innovation, or portfolio management frameworks.

• Experience with financial modeling, NPV analysis, and ROI evaluation in a product development context.

• Background working across global, matrixed organizational structures.

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The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $200000 - $220000 USD per year.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

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