Sr. Director Product Management – Growth & Innovation

The Sr. Director of Growth & Innovation will report to the Vice President of Product Management & Innovation. The Sr. Director of Growth & Innovation will be a change agent for driving customer-backed innovation across the Aerospace business units. This role will work closely with the Aero Leadership Team, General Managers and Technology leaders. In this role, you will lead Aero-wide Ideation and Growth MOS and be accountable for driving a high-quality, market-backed NPI pipeline. The Sr Director of Growth & Innovation will directly manage a team that is responsible for applying expertise in leading Z21 (Zero-to-First Revenue) and Design Thinking methodologies. This role will be responsible for owning and operationalizing the policies around our end-to-end Innovation process – Including Ideation, Discovery and Launch phases. This role will play a coach to the Product Management leaders, providing guidance and product management training and development to the entire organization. The Sr. Director of Growth & Innovation is also responsible for pulling in sales, business development and customer marketing to foster compelling and timely offerings. This role will play a key commercial partner to the VP/GMs by utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to inform priorities and optimize investments.