[Hiring] Innovation Manager @Perseus Group, Constellation Software

Role Description

The Innovation Manager is responsible for identifying, validating, developing, and commercializing strategic growth initiatives that create meaningful new recurring revenue for MAJIQ. Unlike traditional Product Management roles that focus on enhancing existing products, the Initiative Manager is responsible for discovering and building MAJIQ's next generation of business expansion.

Key Outcomes:

• Identify and validate strategic growth opportunities capable of becoming significant new businesses for MAJIQ.
• Develop investment-ready business cases supported by customer validation, market research, and financial analysis.
• Build strong relationships with customers, prospects, industry experts, and strategic partners to uncover unmet market needs.
• Lead early customer engagement through advisory councils, design partnerships, proofs of concept, and pilot programs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define commercially viable Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
• Develop commercialization strategies including pricing, positioning, go-to-market planning, and customer adoption strategies.
• Build reference customers and establish early market credibility.
• Remain accountable for the commercial success and strategic direction of assigned initiatives until they mature into sustainable businesses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Operations, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, business development, strategy, operations, manufacturing technology, enterprise software, consulting, or entrepreneurial ventures.
• Demonstrated experience bringing new products, services, or businesses to market.
• Experience developing business cases, market analyses, and commercialization strategies.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to travel approximately 25–40%.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Naturally identifies opportunities, embraces uncertainty, and demonstrates the initiative required to build something from the ground up.
• Commercial Acumen: Understands how businesses create value through customer needs, pricing strategies, recurring revenue models, and profitable growth.
• Strategic Thinking: Recognizes emerging market opportunities and develops long-term growth strategies aligned with MAJIQ's vision.
• Customer Obsession: Builds deep relationships with customers and seeks to understand operational challenges before proposing solutions.
• Financial & Analytical Skills: Develops sound business cases supported by market analysis, financial modeling, and data-driven decision making.
• Influence & Leadership: Builds alignment across cross-functional teams without relying on formal authority.
• Bias for Action: Moves quickly from concept to validation while maintaining disciplined decision-making.
• Resilience: Thrives in ambiguity, adapts to changing market conditions, and learns quickly from both successes and setbacks.

Benefits

• Full time employees will also be eligible for enrollment in a wide range of choices of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, short/long term disability, 401(k) participation (with company match).
• The Company provides a minimum of 10 days of vacation for new employees, sick time based on state requirements, 8 Company-paid holidays and 2 personal holidays per year.