VP of Innovation (Integration Platform and Analytics )
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the product roadmap for Redzone's Integration Platform and Analytics, setting priorities and sequencing delivery to ensure reliable, scalable value. Lead Horizon 3 as an innovation portfolio, managing 3-5 significant spikes annually by setting hypotheses, killing failing bets quickly, and scaling proven ideas into the core product. Pioneer visual and physical AI on the shop floor to detect production efficiency, quality loss, and co-bot collaboration in real time. Build and run engineering teams capable of shipping a roadmap while operating an innovation lab simultaneously. Convert successful spikes into scaled products with speed and discipline.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of IT/OT innovation experience in manufacturing
- Track record of shipping technology that changed how plants run
- Deep, hands-on experience with the industry's most common ERPs, including QAD, SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, and Infor
- Experience across MES, WMS, and connected worker platforms, and how they integrate with each other on the plant floor
- Proven experience leading both product and engineering teams, not just one or the other
- Direct experience building or deploying computer vision or physical AI in industrial or production environments
- Working knowledge of predictive maintenance and machine health approaches, including sensor data, IoT, and failure prediction models
- Familiarity with world models, digital twins, or simulation approaches applied to operational or industrial systems
- Comfortable running an innovation portfolio: setting hypotheses, killing bets quickly, and scaling the ones that prove out
- Executive presence to operate in Horizon 3 ambiguity in the morning and defend Horizon 1 roadmap commitments in the afternoon
- A pragmatic, no-drama operator who gets things done
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