VP of Innovation (Integration Platform and Analytics)

Role Description

Redzone is seeking a VP of Innovation to own both our Integration Platform and Analytics product roadmap, and to lead Horizon 3 innovation for the Connected Workforce Platform as we scale globally across thousands of always-on manufacturing environments.

• Own Redzone’s Integration Platform and Analytics Roadmap: Set priorities, sequence delivery, and ensure both products keep earning customer trust every release.
• Run Horizon 3 as a Portfolio, Not a Pet Project: Manage 3-5 spikes a year like an investment portfolio, kill the losers quickly, and double down on what works.
• Pioneer Visual and Physical AI on the Shop Floor: Build and prove AI that sees production efficiency, quality loss, changeover, downtime, and co-bot collaboration in real time.
• Convert Spikes Into Scaled Products: Build the handoff discipline that takes a winning Horizon 3 bet and gets it into the core roadmap fast.
• Lead Engineering Talent: Build and run teams that can ship a roadmap and run an innovation lab at the same time, without either one starving the other.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT/OT innovation experience in manufacturing, with a 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.

Benefits

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.