Director, Innovation

About Us:

At AMETEK, you’ll collaborate with innovative colleagues to create technology that changes the world. Enjoy the support, resources, and best practices that AMETEK has to offer while having the autonomy and flexibility to work on diverse teams and projects.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a visionary and results-driven Director of Innovation to lead early-stage opportunity discovery and concept development for AMETEK’s Power Systems & Instruments (PSI) Division. This role is responsible for the front end of innovation, including brainstorming, ideation, market analysis, customer discovery, and product road mapping for solutions across our portfolio. The Director of Innovation will then help transition validated concepts to Product Management and R&D teams for development and commercialization.

Reporting directly to divisional leadership, the Director of Innovation will play a central role in shaping the next generation of PSI products and platform architectures. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with the ability to translate customer insights, market intelligence, and cross portfolio patterns into differentiated concepts and credible business cases. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, proven credibility with R&D organizations, and the ability to align cross-functional teams around new product ideas.

This leader will collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to ensure early-stage ideas evolve into well-defined concepts ready for development. They will help identify capability gaps, recommend build/buy/partner strategies, and maintain continuity as validated concepts transition into the product development lifecycle. The Director of Innovation will be instrumental in driving disciplined discovery, clear decision making, and long-range roadmap alignment across the division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic advisor to divisional and BU leaders, bringing structure to early‑stage ideas and providing clear starting points for R&D projects


• Lead the early phases of product roadmaps, turning open‑ended problems into clear opportunities, validating ideas with customers, and shaping concepts and roadmaps that internal R&D teams can action on


• Perform regular market analysis, collect Voice of the Customer (VOC) data on market needs and product ideas, and help the division explore adjacencies through market research


• Build simple, credible business cases covering market potential, pricing logic, risks, and what it will take to win


• Bring Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and Finance together around the same opportunity thesis, defining what decisions are needed and who owns what along the way


• Spot patterns across the portfolio and adjacent markets, identifying where shared architectures, common modules, or platform strategies can create synergy across the division


• Deliver clear, concise communication for senior leaders—one‑page briefs, option summaries, and roadmap narratives to support crisp decision‑making


• Hand off validated concepts to Product Management and R&D with the right level of definition, staying close through kickoff to ensure the original problem, requirements, and customer insights are tracked

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or related Engineering field


• 10+ years of experience in product development, product management, or R&D environments


• Willingness to travel up to 15%


• Experience working in the Power Electronics and/or Radio Frequency industry


• Due to the nature of our programs and products, applicants must have the legal right to work in the U.S. and additionally must be legally authorized to access export-controlled information and source code

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or related Engineering field


• Power and/or electrical industry experience


• Experience working with regulated and standards-driven environments (e.g., EMC compliance testing, grid/power systems, defense programs)


• Strong credibility with R&D teams and the ability to challenge/shape technical direction


• Portfolio-level pattern recognition across adjacent domains