VP of Innovation (Integration Platform and Analytics )

Company Description

QAD | Redzone is building the next generation of manufacturing software — software that doesn't just record what happened, but helps customers make better operational decisions in real time. As we expand from a traditional product portfolio into an increasingly AI-powered platform, we're standing up a Product Operations function for the first time, and we're looking for the leader to build it.

Job Description

Building What Manufacturing Does Next

Are you a manufacturing technology executive who thrives on running a live product roadmap with one hand and inventing the next generation of shop floor AI with the other? Have you led teams that ship reliable software today while placing the bets that define tomorrow?

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.

Who We Are: Empowering Frontline Workers to Win the Day

Manufacturing has been transformed by technology everywhere except where it matters most: the people running the lines. Redzone changes that.

We power communication, decision-making, and continuous improvement for frontline teams through:

• Real-time collaboration across operations, maintenance, and quality
• Intelligent software that anticipates issues, surfaces knowledge, and initiates action
• Proven coaching that drives sustained behavior change on the shop floor

Our impact is measurable and repeatable:

• 26% productivity uplift in just 90 days
• 81% employee engagement
• 35% reduction in frontline turnover

Today, more than 500,000 workers across 1,600+ factories on 6 continents rely on Redzone every shift. Backed by QAD, we are scaling with purpose and discipline.

The Opportunity: Own the Roadmap, Own What's Next

This is a dual mandate. You will own the product roadmap for Redzone's Integration Platform and Redzone Analytics, ensuring both continue to deliver reliable, scalable value to customers every shift.

At the same time, you will lead Horizon 3: Redzone's innovation engine for the ideas that don't exist yet. We expect 3-5 significant spikes per year. Most will fail fast and we will learn form. The ones that don't, your team will help scale into the core product with speed and discipline.

What You Will Drive: Roadmap Execution and Frontier Innovation

• 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

Who You Are: A Manufacturing Innovation Executive

• 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

Additional Information

• 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.

If you're ready to own the roadmap and build what manufacturing does next, let's talk. Apply now and help shape the future of manufacturing.

About QAD:

QAD | Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent, adaptive platform that connects people, processes, and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars — Redzone (frontline empowerment), Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone), and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) — QAD | Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace, achieving measurable productivity, resilience, and growth in just 90 days.

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QAD’s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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