Global Product Line Manager - Intelligent Completions

Weatherford•Houston, TX

About The Position

Lead Weatherford’s global Intelligent Completion Systems product line as a strategic business, technology, and lifecycle-performance portfolio. Define product strategy and a multi-year roadmap, translate customer, market, competitor, and operational insight into investment priorities, and manage the portfolio from concept and commercialization through growth, sustainment, and retirement. Integrate downhole sensing, communication, flow control, surface systems, software, and digital optimization into scalable solutions that help customers manage zones, reduce interventions, protect well integrity, and improve production over the life of the well. The role owns the product line’s strategy, value proposition, roadmap, financial performance, commercialization, and lifecycle decisions. It leads global, cross-functional teams and establishes governance and operating models for product and service execution. It also develops product, application, technical-support, and service-delivery capabilities, and represents the product line in strategic planning, investment reviews, customer engagements, partnership discussions, and industry forums.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
10+ years of relevant energy-industry experience, including substantial experience in completions, production technology, intelligent wells, product management, applications, operations, technology development, or technical sales.
Demonstrated experience leading a product or solution portfolio, creating roadmaps, building business cases, and aligning global cross-functional teams.
Experience with complex downhole systems and operational interfaces among hardware, electronics, sensing, communications, surface equipment, software, and data.
Experience with customer-facing technical and commercial engagements, strategic tenders, field trials, and commercialization of new technology.
Knowledge of strategic product management, portfolio governance, roadmap development, lifecycle management, and commercialization.
Strong business and financial judgment, including the ability to connect technical choices to customer value, risk, growth, margin, and return on investment.
Systems thinking and ability to manage complex technical and operational interfaces across the full solution lifecycle.
Strong knowledge of completion design, well integrity, production optimization, field execution, and service-quality risk.
Knowledge of customer-led market analysis, competitive intelligence, value proposition development, and pricing strategy.
Executive communication, negotiation, influence, and decision-making skills in a global matrix organization.
Strong planning, analytical, problem-solving, and change-leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of applicable completion equipment standards and qualification practices.
Experience developing strategic alliances, joint developments, or technology partnerships.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate commitment to Quality & Service Delivery and champion reliability and service quality across hardware, electronics, software, interfaces, and integrated system performance.
Support critical incident and product-quality investigations, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, customer communication, and lessons learned.
Use field performance, reliability, warranty, service-quality, and customer data to improve products and prevent recurrence.
Own the global Intelligent Completion Systems strategy, value proposition, roadmap, portfolio priorities, and lifecycle decisions.
Translate customer, market, competitor, and field-performance insights into business cases, product requirements, and investment priorities.
Manage the portfolio as an integrated system encompassing downhole control, sensing, communication, surface equipment, software, and digital workflows.
Lead technology development and commercialization with Research, Development and Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Service Delivery, Sales, and Geozones.
Define launch plans, readiness criteria, pricing approach, sales enablement, proof points, and adoption milestones for new products and system offerings.
Promote modular design, standard interfaces, digital integration, and design-to-value to reduce cost, lead time, and deployment risk.
Define the global operating model from opportunity qualification through design, installation, handover, support, and lessons learned.
Set governance for system interfaces, standard workflows, design rules, configuration control, readiness reviews, procedures, and job closeout.
Ensure product and service readiness before release, including equipment, people, inventory, documentation, training, support, and escalation paths.
Work with Geozones to close capability gaps, certify locations, scale repeatable execution, and support first deployments, strategic tenders, and critical wells.
Turn field-trial, deployment, and installed-base learnings into product improvements, training, service procedures, lifecycle support plans, and roadmap actions.
Own product-line financial planning and performance, including revenue, margin, pricing, cost, forecast, budget, development investment, and portfolio profitability.
Prepare and maintain business cases for new products, platform extensions, partnerships, and major lifecycle investments, including expected value, risk, and return.
Drive profitable growth through portfolio mix, value-based pricing, cost reduction, standardization, product rationalization, service attachment, and recurring lifecycle revenue.
Review performance regularly and initiate corrective actions when commercial, development, or operational results are below plan.
Lead through a global matrix and align Sales, Operations, Engineering, Research and Development, Service Delivery, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Digital, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Geozone teams.
Establish portfolio governance and communicate priorities, roadmap status, investment needs, risks, decisions, and performance to leadership and key stakeholders.
Build alignment across adjacent product lines so Intelligent Completion Systems integrate into broader well architectures and production-optimization solutions.
Develop a global community of product, application, technical-support, and service-delivery specialists with clear roles, competency requirements, and succession plans.
Set objectives, coach performance, create development opportunities, and retain critical technical and commercial talent.
Define training and certification requirements for sales, applications, operations, field personnel, and technical support, and enable train-the-trainer deployment.
Set a long-term vision for intelligent wells that connects sensing, control, automation, and digital optimization to measurable customer outcomes.
Move the organization toward integrated, lifecycle solutions with single-point accountability for customer value.
Represent the product line in strategic planning, investment reviews, customer executive engagements, partnership discussions, and industry forums.