VP Product Management / Industrial Automation

Railserve is seeking a strategic product leader to build and scale its product organization and lead the productization, industrialization, deployment, customer support, and lifecycle management of rail technology platforms. The role bridges product strategy and execution across engineering, operations, commercial, and executive teams.

Responsibilities:

• Product strategy, requirements, and portfolio management
• End-to-end project management of individual product initiatives
• Commercialization and go-to-market readiness
• Productization, industrialization and production readiness
• Deployment and field implementation
• Customer support, technical interface, and lifecycle services
• Product economics and business performance
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, operations, commercial, and executive leadership teams

Requirements:

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in industrial technology, product management, automation, or related fields
• Proven success taking connected hardware, software, sensors, controls, automation, or industrial IoT solutions from development through productization and scaled deployment
• Strong product and project management capability, including requirements definition, stage-gate execution, risk management, and cross-functional delivery
• Experience building products for demanding field environments where reliability, serviceability and operational performance are critical
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams through product launch, deployment, customer support and lifecycle management
• Deep understanding of product economics, capital allocation, pricing strategy, and business case development
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Systems, or related discipline)
• Combination of technical credibility and executive business leadership
• A commercially minded product leader rather than a pure technologist
• Comfortable working directly with customers and field operations
• Equally effective in the boardroom and in operating environments
• Experienced building organizations, processes, and capabilities from the ground up
• Skilled at balancing innovation, safety, quality, reliability, and financial performance
• Driven by solving real operational challenges through technology
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience commercializing technology in field based industrial environments where reliability, safety, serviceability, and operational performance are critical
• MBA strongly preferred
• Houston area strongly preferred