New Business Industrialization Leader
Atlanta, GA - USA
Job Summary
This is not a conventional strategy engineering product-management or business-development role. The leader owns the full venture-building arc: defining the customer-backed opportunity testing willingness to pay designing the business model structuring partnerships and early commercial commitments shaping the product and industrialization pathway and recommending whether each venture should accelerate pivot partner spin out integrate or stop.
The ideal candidate is a builder who combines commercial imagination with industrial
discipline. They are energized by ambiguity but do not confuse activity with progress.
They can move from a customer conversation to a business-model hypothesis from a
technical review to an industrialization risk and from a partnership concept to a
negotiated structure and investment recommendation.
They will be externally curious financially rigorous technically fluent and decisive.
They will challenge assumptions respectfully learn quickly from evidence protect
scarce resources and create confidence through transparent choices. They will know
when to persevere when to change the model when to bring in a partner and when to
stop.
Strategic Mandate:
- Build a focused portfolio of new-business opportunities with the potential to create differentiated material value in power generation and the energy transition.
- Define opportunities from the outside in beginning with high-value customer problems market structure adoption barriers competitive alternatives and willingness to pay.
- Translate technical promise into a commercial thesis product concept business model risk-reduction plan and industrialization roadmap.
- Deploy capital and talent in stages increasing commitment only as customer technical regulatory supply-chain and economic evidence strengthens.
- Create a repeatable venture-building system that moves at market speed while using the companys industrial assets installed-base relationships research capabilities and execution expertise as advantages.
- Make clear fact-based portfolio recommendations and stop weak opportunities early enough to redirect resources to stronger ones.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape the portfolio thesis across direct air capture and emerging power and energy-transition opportunities.
- Evaluate opportunities based on customer need market attractiveness strategic fit differentiation capabilities economics and risk-adjusted value.
- Balance near-term learning with long-term options; identify portfolio gaps and concentration risks.
- Set venture charters owners hypotheses milestones decision gates and evidence standards; tie staged funding to measurable risk reduction.
- Lead reviews that drive explicit accelerate pivot partner integrate hold spin out or stop decisions.
- Engage priority customers through discovery pricing tests pilots and commercial experiments; validate demand through paid commitments or contracts.
- Define product-market fit beachhead segments buying centers adoption barriers routes to market and scalable business models.
- Build and pressure-test business cases covering pricing volume margin cash capital industrialization cost risk partner economics and exit paths.
- Build partnerships and negotiate fit-for-purpose commercial development licensing investment supply and channel arrangements while protecting IP learning rights flexibility and economics.
- Convert validated concepts into executable product sourcing manufacturing quality regulatory installation service and project plans; determine what to own partner outsource license or acquire.
- Plan the transition to scale while managing technical commercial legal regulatory capital supply-chain execution reputational and talent risks; escalate issues with clear evidence and concise executive recommendations.
Qualifications:
- Significant leadership experience building scaling financing commercializing or transforming new businesses where outcomes depended on both market creation and operational execution.
- Demonstrated experience moving from customer discovery through pilots initial commercial commitments product launch industrialization or scale-up.
- Experience negotiating complex partnerships commercial agreements investment structures or strategic transactions.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience required
Desired Characteristics:
- Prior startup scale-up corporate venture venture-studio private-equity portfolio or new-business-building experience
- Experience in power generation energy transition climate technology industrial technology infrastructure or adjacent capital-intensive markets
- Comfort engaging boards senior executives investors customers technical experts and operating leaders
- Advanced degree in business engineering science finance or a related field
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position the pay range for this position is between $248000 and $341000. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on 10/7/26.
Available benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability benefits life insurance 12 paid holidays and permissive time off and the Restoration Plan a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually GE Vernova) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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