VP, Product Development

Fieldpiece Instruments is hiring a Vice President of Product Development to drive our new product development engine.  The VP will manage cross-functional teams led by the Director of Upstream Marketing and Product Category Directors to ideate, design, and launch innovative, technically complex HVACR tools and instruments that exceed customer expectations.  By collaborating closely with customers, the industry, and internal stakeholders, the VP ensures our product portfolio stays ahead of the competition, is exceptionally customer centric, and increasingly differentiated.

The ideal candidate thinks like an engineer and acts like a product strategist, leads with empathy, clarity, and accountability, and thrives in a high-growth, hands-on environment.  You’re a visionary leader who can align cross-functional teams around a bold product roadmap and deliver consistent, high-quality results.  You bring a bias for action and a proven record of turning ideas into commercially successful products.

Fieldpiece is a thriving team of innovators - committed to pushing boundaries and celebrating curiosity.  We’ve been providing HVACR professionals with rugged, feature-rich tools like meters, manifolds, leak detectors, and more since 1990.  Fieldpiece leads the industry in the way we think, work, collaborate, and remain laser-focused on creating products that empower HVACR professionals.  If you thrive in an environment where challenges are embraced, ambiguity fuels innovation, and relationships are built on trust and transparency—this is your opportunity.

As one of the Best Places to Work in SoCal (2023 & 2024), we’re proud of our people-first culture and Hire to Retire philosophy.  We offer a hybrid (3 days onsite), flexible work schedule, a kitchen full of snacks to keep you charged throughout the day and a unique, onsite music room with complimentary guitar and piano lessons.  While we’d like this position in our Orange, CA office, we’d also consider candidates for our Kamas, UT location. 

What You’ll Do

• Partner with executive leadership to develop and own the multi-year Product Development Roadmap, aligned with business strategy, customer needs, and market trends.
• Champion a voice-of-the-customer culture, using market research and field insights to prioritize product investments.
• Enthusiastically drive the entire product lifecycle – from ideation through commercialization and sustainment – with passion and precision, identifying strategic product categories and ensuring innovation wins in those categories.
• Lead the full end-to-end product development lifecycle — from opportunity identification through technical feasibility, product launch and post-release optimization.
• Oversee the engineering function with a focus on innovation, reliability, manufacturability, and performance in demanding field environments.
• Oversee world-class pricing, positioning, and value propositions that set our products apart as industry leaders.
• Manage and mentor a diverse team including Product Directors, Product Managers, Director of Upstream Marketing, and Market Researchers.
• Collaborate with Operations and strategic ODM partners to solve production challenges, improve yield, and reduce costs.
• Own IP strategy and foster a pipeline of differentiated product features and technologies.

What You Bring

• BS or MS in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, or related field) required; MBA or advanced business training preferred.