Director, Technology Innovation & Partnerships - Shelton, CT at Hubbell Incorporated in Shelton, Connecticut

Job Description:

Corporate Overview

Hubbell Incorporated was founded in 1888 and has grown into an international manufacturer of quality electrical, lighting and power solutions with more than 75 brands used and recognized around the world. Our founder, Harvey Hubbell, developed tooling and equipment to serve the growing demand for new assembly and manufacturing machinery during the industrial revolution.An early, and one of many patents awarded, came for the creation of the first practical method to control electricity through the pull chain socket that remains unchanged today. As a market leader in reliable, electrical solutions, we provide more than half a million products delivered through our various business groups. Hubbell is committed to continually innovating solutions that work, transforming old products with new ideas, and ensuring that we Energize, Enlighten and Empower the communities that support us.

Posting Address

40 Waterview Drive

Shelton, CT 06484

Position Overview

The Director of Technology Innovation and Partnerships, working with thee Vice President of Technology Strategy & Management office of the CTO, will play a key role in partnering with Hubbell's electrical and utility segment business and technical leaders to define and coordinate technology strategy, architectural design, future proofing technology stack and related partnership opportunities. Work multi-functionally across the enterprise to develop strong investment theses and to ensure that stakeholdersare aligned and business objectives are understood. The candidate will play a key role in scaling technology teams and preparing the company for the next stage of growth.

The preferred candidate should possess strong entrepreneurial traits, technical curiosity and solid understanding of electrical and utility markets; along with a passion to contribute in a hands-on role with a dynamic range of projects.

Duties and Responsibilities

Develop a close working relationship with colleagues in Hubbell R&D, sales and marketing organizations to understand the evolving market landscape, competitors, product and technology trends, emerging uses cases, applications and product standards while providing opportunities to support strategic growth

• Lead a multi-disciplinary cross functional team in the planning and execution of technology strategy and planning workshops


• Partner with business functions to identify new opportunities including process and/or value chain analysis, business service model, business canvas, process and solution enablement plan


• Scout emerging technologies and define new opportunities that can add business value


• Technology Innovation and Ecosystems: exploring new and emerging technologies to build a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge customer solutions


• Lead the strategy, planning, and execution of the technology roadmaps, as part of a unified technology strategy, for existing and new product groups.


• Executes a governance process to provide corporate executive leadership with visibility into program performance and decision making ability


• Identify and build relationships with venture capital funds, incubators and accelerators, academia and technology associations


• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to create and maintain analytical tools and evaluation frameworks to assess fit for early stage start-ups and to evaluate and develop detailed opportunity assessments supporting investment decisions for strategic investment or organic development acceleration with key technology enablement.


• Help lead the evaluation of inorganic opportunities (venture investments, technology acquisition, licensing and distribution agreements) in coordination with business development including opportunity assessments, technology evaluation and development of investment theses


• Provide support related to due-diligence, development/presentation of business cases/plans and integration as well as training and mentoring to functional and market-centric teams to develop open innovation capabilities


• Provide strategic linkages to legal and IP expertise in the company


• Drive alignment with the executive team on product releases, technology planning, and priorities.


• Ensure a close partnership with the product team to collectively bring high-quality software to customers in accordance with requirements, quality standards, and timelines.


• Develop strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technology decisions and strategy.

Skills and Experience

• Must be self-reliant, resourceful, creative skills and possess acumen in executing business decisions


• Required to use tact and diplomacy to build and maintain positive relationships with program participants and multiple levels of partners


• Past experience driving collaboration between Engineering and Product Leadership (VP/Director) to build a strong technical team culture (people management/mentorship, understanding engineering processes, hiring, etc.)


• Must have strong analytical skills and understanding of business models and drivers of success in start-ups across several verticals


• Ability to analyze and systematically evaluate potential open innovation and venture partners, including a proficiency with financial modeling, conducting market analysis and strategic planning


• Excellent oral and writing communication skills needed to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees, and the general public


• Ability to organize and manage "ad-hoc" teams to support innovation opportunities


• Capable of frequent travel to attend meetings


• Strong mathematic, analytical and computer skills


• Strong proficiency in architecture design; past experience with architecting complex platforms and developing enterprise-level technology roadmaps


• Proven success with defining security standards for systems and software and meeting data privacy requirements from a technical standpoint


• Experience with Agile methodologies


• Designed, implemented, and optimized processes for development, QA, security, and IT


• A Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or business field is preferred, along with a minimum of 7-10 years of related experience. Preference will be given to candidates with a PhD or MS degree; MBA highly desired.


• Experience in Engineering, R&D and Technical Marketing in formal or informal leadership roles


• Experience with start-ups, technology companies or venture capital


• Demonstrated success in developing revenue producing OI/3rd Party collaboration efforts

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.