C4C Senior Innovation Manager - PWS

Job description

Logitech is the Sweet Spot for people who want their actions to have a positive global impact while having the flexibility to do it in their own way. SENIOR INNOVATION MANAGER PERSONAL WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS, CHINA FOR CHINA (SHANGHAI, CHINA) Logitech is the Sweet Spot for people who want their actions to have a positive global impact while having the flexibility to do it in their own way. The Role As a Senior Innovation Manager, you will be a strategic architect for the Personal Workspace Solutions (PWS) business group, helping to extend human potential and enable creativity and productivity in workspaces across the Chinese market. You will lead the innovation funnel for the China market and own the process from initial signal identification (technology or behavioral) through to prototype, validation, and roadmap creation and integration. You thrive in complexity and specialize in distilling advanced technologies into tangible, compelling narratives. You are a hands-on leader, equally comfortable discussing five-year strategic outlooks and diving into the details of a rapid prototype. Core Responsibilities Innovation Funnel Ownership: Manage the end-to-end China innovation funnel, ensuring processes remain organized, transparent, and high-velocity. Strategic Intelligence: Maintain a "living view" of the technologies, use cases, and consumer behaviors shaping personal workspaces in China. Transform these insights into a unified point of view to guide the business group. Advocacy & Influence: Surface emerging opportunities early and effectively. Provide leadership with the clarity to act on trends before they reach the mainstream. Conceptualization & Prototyping: Drive design thinking sessions and organize rapid innovation sprints with cross-functional teams. Use your skills to break down complex technologies into simple, decision-ready visualizations and narratives. Collaboration Orchestration: Act as the connective tissue between designers, engineers, product managers, and marketing teams to ensure cross-functional alignment. External Ecosystem Building: Cultivate relationships with universities, startups, research labs, and external innovation hubs to bring "outside-in" thinking into Logitech. Data-Driven Decision Making: Drive systematic trend tracking and opportunity scouting and manage a complex data ecosystem proactively and efficiently. Operational Excellence: Lead and moderate large-format roadmap workshops and rigorous post-market analysis to track success, refine processes, and capture institutional learnings. Qualifications & Competencies Experience: 5-10 years in innovation, advanced concepts, or product management, preferably within consumer hardware or adjacent tech categories. Proven Track Record: Demonstrate a portfolio of successful innovations launched in the market, with clear attribution to your strategic contribution. Communication & Influence: Exceptional visual and verbal communication skills. Ability to simplify advanced technology for a mainstream audience without losing depth. Raise the flags on what is coming and provide leadership with the needed awareness and know-how. Design & Technical Skills: Hands-on experience with prototyping, design thinking, and design tools (system schematics, layouts, solution architecture). Systematic use of powerful AI tools to accelerate and amplify results and impact, and support strategic decision-making. Leadership Presence: Proven ability to organize large ideation events or moderate complex cross-functional workshops, making sure designers, engineers, and product managers are working in one direction. Mindset: Pragmatic, outcome-oriented, "hands-on," and deeply curious about user behaviors. Show, don’t tell. Behaviors for Success Be Yourself. Be Open. Stay Hungry and Humble. Collaborate but Challenge, Decide, and Do. Across Logitech we empower collaboration and foster play. We help teams collaborate/learn from anywhere, without compromising on productivity or continuity so it should be no surprise that most of our jobs are open to work from home from most locations. Our hybrid work model allows some employees to work remotely while others work on-premises. Within this structure, you may have teams or departments split between working remotely and working in-house. Logitech is an amazing place to work because it is full of authentic people who are inclusive by nature as well as by design. Being a global company, we value our diversity and celebrate all our differences. Don’t meet every single requirement? Not a problem. If you feel you are the right candidate for the opportunity, we strongly recommend that you apply. We want to meet you! We offer comprehensive and competitive benefits packages and working environments that are designed to be flexible and help you to care for yourself and your loved ones, now and in the future. We believe that good health means more than getting medical care when you need it. Logitech supports a culture that encourages individuals to achieve good physical, financial, emotional, intellectual and social wellbeing so we all can create, achieve and enjoy more and support our families. We can’t wait to tell you more about them being that there are too many to list here and they vary based on location. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. 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