Head (f/m/d) of product management and development - switchgear digitalization (Messtechniker/in (Energietechnik))

Job Description

You begin by reviewing progress on ongoing R&D activities-from new partial discharge detection methods to enhanced gas density analytics and circuit breaker condition monitoring. Before lunch, you meet with Product Management and Engineering to align budget allocations and make decisions on CAPEX and OPEX investments supporting the next release milestones. In the afternoon, you engage with regional teams to understand customer needs for digital switchgear monitoring and translate those insights into strategic roadmap adjustments. You finish the day refining your long-term technology vision and ensuring the financial and technical foundations are set for sustainable product leadership.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead the global Switchgear Monitoring portfolio, covering sensors, embedded devices, digital platforms, cloud/on‑prem analytics, and advanced diagnostic services.
• Own the strategic roadmap, shaping future capabilities and ensuring alignment with customer needs and industry standards across Partial Discharge Monitoring (PDM), Gas Density Monitoring (GDM), Circuit Breaker Monitoring (CBM), portable PDM solutions, digital platform integration and Cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem deployments
• Take full ownership of R&D budgets as well as CAPEX and OPEX, ensuring disciplined investment decisions aligned with long-term strategic value and business cases
• Ensure cybersecurity & compliance, guiding teams through evolving digital infrastructure requirements.
• Translate market and technology trends into portfolio decisions, build strong business cases, and ensure clear investment logic.
• Lead cross-functional and external collaboration, driving successful product launches with engineering, R&D, operations, supply chain, service, and sales, and representing Siemens Energy with customers, partners, and at industry forums.

What You Bring

• Completed university degree in electrical engineering or energy technology.
• Deep experience in switchgear technologies, power systems, digital industrial solutions, or asset monitoring.
• Understanding of monitoring principles such as partial discharge, gas density behaviour, circuit breaker mechanics, and data driven diagnostics.
• Experience with complex software hardware product ecosystems, including IoT devices, embedded systems, cloud/edge computing, and analytics.
• Proven ability to manage significant R&D budgets, CAPEX/OPEX planning, financial trade-offs, and investment decisions.
• Strategic leadership capabilities and strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to convey technical topics clearly to diverse audiences.
• Experience leading international, cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

About the Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.