VP of Products Weir Motion Metrics Vancouver, BC(Hybrid) Purpose of Role: This full-time leadership role is responsible for the organization’s product roadmap and product portfolio with a particular focus on mining technology, robotics, AI, and vision-based systems. As the VP of Products, you will align product strategy with business objectives, drive cross-functional collaboration, and ensure our smart solutions deliver unmatched value to global mining customers. This role requires a dynamic combination of technical expertise, creativity, team collaboration, product management, and customer relationships. Why choose Weir: Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge, but it is exciting. An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives. Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate, and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their well-being. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent, and authentic in everything we do. Key Responsibilities: Product Vision and Roadmap: Develop and manage a product roadmap that achieves Motion Metrics’ vision of being the global leader in digitally enabled mining productivity and safety solutions. Set the strategic direction for multiple product platforms. This involves understanding our customers’ challenges and the external market, tech, and competitive trends. Collaborate with Engineering to bring these solutions to life and quickly deploy with our Global Sales team. Set commercial strategies and collaborate across the organization to achieve our financial growth goals. Customer Success: Responsible for leading the global Customer Success team, developing the global program and ensuring customers receive and feel the full value of solutions to maximize impact on their operations. Collaborate with the Customer Success team to translate customer needs into scalable, innovative products. Market Opportunities: Understand market dynamics, competition, and opportunities to maximize sales revenue and market share. Create business cases and plans for these opportunities that include a clear definition of the market, the opportunity, and the impact on the organization with meaningful financial models. Responsible for setting global pricing and approving any non-standard offers. Marketing Strategy and Execution: Lead marketing and Motion Metrics brand efforts. Collaborating with the Corporate Marketing team to define strategy for business unit messaging and advertising, including online presence, promotions, launches, trade shows, etc. Act as a strategic leader, representing Motion Metrics' product innovation at external industry events. Product Requirement Definition: Understand and translate customer needs into engineering and business requirements. Prioritize, scope, communicate, and initiate projects, ensuring each project is delivered on time and on budget while delivering results for relevant stakeholders. Conduct robust VOC analysis to understand customer needs and commercial opportunities. Financial Health: Responsible for creating and executing a five-year RoIC plan. This includes responsibility for expense budgets, pricing, margin, inventory health, and warranty. Deep understanding of portfolio health tied to Intellectual Property and cost position, driving future business requirements to ensure sustainability and growth. Regularly analyze portfolio results to plan, adjusting tactics to achieve year-end objectives. Ensure products are quickly and successfully adopted by the market, leading to profitability. Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mining, Robotics, or related technical field; Master’s degree (MBA or technical field) preferred. 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Product Management, Product Development, or Commercialization, ideally in mining technology, industrial AI/robotics, or imaging systems. Innate understanding of the mining industry, including drill and blast, extraction and comminution processes. Strong technical acumen with AI, machine vision, robotics, or mining systems technologies, preferably as they apply to solving mining related problems. Track record of successfully bringing complex technical products to market. Exceptional leadership skills, including cross-functional team leadership and executive communication. Customer-centric mindset with proven experience leading voice-of-customer efforts and incorporating customer feedback into product development. Experience in managing product lifecycle and associated P&L ownership. Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills. The candidate must be willing and able to travel up to 25% (both internationally and domestically). Weir Motion Metrics (WMM) is a Canadian mining technology division that enables a new generation of safe, smart, and sustainable mining based in Vancouver, B.C. Serving the mining market since 1999, then joining Weir in 2021, Motion Metrics is proud to be Weir’s first-ever center of excellence for artificial intelligence and machine vision technology. For additional information about Weir Motion Metrics, visit us at www.motionmetrics.com. Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives. For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page. Compensation: Ranges from CAD 190,000 to 250,000 (depending on fit) Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. #motionmetrics #LI-LK1 #LI-hybrid We are Weir. And the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing. Quickly adapting. Continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each and every one of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it’s exciting. And it’s one we can’t wait to be part of. Thank you for your interest in joining us.
