VP Product Management, Sensors

Key Responsibilities

• Own and lead the 3–5 year portfolio, technology, and investment strategy, grounded in customer needs, market dynamics, competitive intelligence, and financial returns.
• Drive end-to-end product line lifecycle management, including launch, scale, margin expansion, and end-of-life decisions.
• Ruthlessly prioritize high-impact initiatives and reallocate resources dynamically to accelerate growth and returns.
• Anticipate macro trends, disruptive technologies, and competitive moves; proactively adapt business and operating models.
• Own global pricing strategy and governance, ensuring disciplined value-based pricing and margin realization.
• Define and execute go-to-market strategies across direct and distribution channels, aligned with portfolio intent.
• Build and maintain senior-level customer and partner relationships (OEMs, Tier customers, distributors).
• Accelerate the NPI pipeline, ensuring market-ready launches and rapid, predictable ramp to revenue.
• Lead a global, multi-industry Project Management organization, delivering complex, regulated, high-mix sensor programs from customer award through industrialization.
• Establish and enforce execution discipline at scale: clear governance, prioritization, escalation, and accountability for cost, quality, delivery, and margin.
• Partner with Strategy to lead the full M&A lifecycle: target screening, strategic rationale, diligence, and integration planning.
• Identify and build partnerships and adjacencies that expand portfolio breadth, accelerate capability development, and open new markets.
• Build, lead, and inspire a high-performing global Product & Project Management organization.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, delegation, and deliberate succession planning.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, speed, and customer focus.
• Champion the enterprise adoption of AI and advanced analytics to accelerate strategy execution and operational excellence.

Candidate Profile

• Demonstrated P&L ownership in a complex, global product environment at or near the $1B scale.
• Clear aspiration and readiness to step into a Business General Manager role within a global, matrixed enterprise.
• Strong strategic judgment paired with hands-on leadership in technical, commercial, and operational settings.
• Prominent ability to lead cross-functional, global teams and deliver measurable business results.
• Deep business and financial acumen, including portfolio trade-offs, business cases, and forecasting.
• Strong technical foundation in sensors or adjacent mechatronic, electrical, or electronic technologies.
• Track record of execution discipline in complex, regulated, multi-industry environments.
• Experience leading or materially contributing to M&A and integration preferred.
• High emotional intelligence, self-aware, resilient, and effective under pressure.
• Comfortable operating in large corporate environments; candidates from smaller organizations welcomed with evidence of scalability and enterprise readiness.

Competencies

• #, North Carolina _
• United States