Services Incubation Hub Manager

Services Incubation Hub • Energy Management Software & Services • Schneider Electric

Segment: Cloud & Service Providers / Power & Grid / Buildings / Industries

Job Description

As Services Incubation Hub Manager, you own a portfolio of 4 to 7 incubations end to end within your segment, constantly juggling which bets to advance and which to drop, moving fast between customer conversations, prototypes and business cases.

You are an entrepreneur and a technology lover at heart. You stay close to the tools, data and architecture behind every bet, but you never lose sight of the customer or the business case. You think in terms of business, not just technology.

You don't stop at challenges. You meet them with creativity and agility, and you fight for the ideas that deserve investment, the ones with real potential to become new services offers.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Ownership

• Own a portfolio of 4 to 7 incubations end to end within your segment, from early idea through customer validation to league handshake
• Continuously prioritize the portfolio, deciding in real time which bets to advance, pause or drop
• Juggle multiple incubations concurrently at different stages, without losing momentum on any of them

Entrepreneurial & Technical Fluency

• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset and a genuine love of technology to every bet, staying close to the tools, data and architecture behind each incubation
• Balance technical curiosity with business discipline, keeping the customer and the commercial case at the center of every technically interesting idea

Customer-Centric Validation

• Keep the customer at the center of every incubation, testing real problems with real customers before committing further investment
• Translate customer signals into decisions: what to build next, what to test, what to kill

Creative Problem-Solving & Resilience

• Meet obstacles with creativity and agility
• Fight for the ideas that deserve investment, building the evidence and the narrative needed to keep a promising bet alive

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Draw on the Hub's transverse capabilities (prototyping and agentic ops, venture and business design, strategy and portfolio governance, community and ecosystem) to move each incubation faster
• Own the relationship with the receiving League for each incubation, preparing and leading the handshake when a bet is ready to scale

Skills & Competency

Skill Area

Expected Proficiency

Segment & Domain Fluency

Deep understanding of the segment's customers, market and technology (Cloud & Service Providers, Power & Grid, Buildings, or Industries).

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Comfortable building something from nothing and owning outcomes end to end.

Technical Curiosity

Genuine interest in and fluency with the technologies underpinning new services offers.

Business & Commercial Acumen

Thinks in terms of business case, customer value and monetization, not just technical feasibility.

Customer Discovery & Validation

Skilled at running structured customer conversations and translating them into decisions.

Resilience & Creative Problem-Solving

Treats obstacles as design challenges to work through, not reasons to stop.

Portfolio Prioritization

Comfortable managing several concurrent bets and making real-time prioritization calls.

Competencies & Domain Expertise

Leadership

• Ownership: Owns each bet end to end, from idea to handshake.
• Assumption Hunter: Attacks the riskiest assumption first, sequencing questions by risk.
• Advocate: Fights for ideas worth investing in, building the evidence to support them.

Collaboration & Communication

• Customer-Facing: Comfortable running structured discovery conversations with customers.
• Cross-Functional Fluency: Pulls in the right transverse support at the right time.
• League Relationship Builder: Builds trust with league leaders ahead of the handshake.

Autonomy & Growth

• Self-Direction: Drives each bet forward without waiting to be told what's next.
• Adaptability: Juggles multiple bets at different stages without losing momentum.
• Continuous Learning: Builds new domain and technical fluency as the segment evolves.

Candidate Requirements

Background

7-10 years of experience in the segment's domain (Cloud & Service Providers, Power & Grid, Buildings, or Industries), ideally combining commercial and technical exposure. Track record of managing multiple ambiguous initiatives concurrently.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in a relevant technical or business field.

Location

[to confirm]

Languages

Full professional English required; French an asset.

Travel

Regular, for customer engagement.

What's in it for me?

• Lead innovation initiatives with enterprise-wide impact and visibility
• Work directly with cutting-edge startups and emerging technologies
• Mentor founders while shaping the future of a global leader in sustainability and energy
• Join a culture that champions bold ideas, collaboration, and professional growth

Bring your venture-building expertise to a team that's redefining what's possible - apply today!