New Business Industrialization Leader

GE Vernova • Atlanta, GA

6d

About The Position

The New Business Industrialization Leader is accountable for a portfolio of venture-like businesses in incubation mode. The role converts promising technologies, customer problems, and market shifts into businesses that can earn customer commitment, attract disciplined investment, and scale through a credible industrial operating model. 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required

Nice To Haves

• 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

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.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
• access to Fidelity Executive Services
• tuition assistance
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• disability benefits
• life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• permissive time off
• the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits
• Relocation Assistance Provided

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior