01Overview
For the position of AVP / VP Product Technology Innovation
Location: Mumbai/Bangalore
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
Works closely with: CEO, Marketing,Business Heads (BFSI, IAM, eGov, Retail, Industrial Automation, Smart Manufacturing, ESS)
Being the AVP / VP Product Technology Innovation for Group company, you will be responsible for
Owning discovery, product strategy and earlystage R D for new solution and platform plays in biometric IAM, IoT/edge and ESS, from concept to validated proto/pilots. Drive IP and patent creation while shaping GTM narratives; hand over scaled execution to engineering and delivery teams.
The Opportunity
This role provides a unique chance to shape Evolute's next-generation product platforms and innovation agenda, create defensible IP and convert emerging technologies into scalable solution platforms that drive new revenue streams across BFSI, IAM, e-Gov, Retail, Industrial Automation, Smart Manufacturing and ESS domains. The role reports into the CTO and works in close collaboration with the CEO, Marketing leadership and Business Heads across BFSI, IAM, e-Gov, Retail, Industrial Automation, Smart Manufacturing and ESS.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Product platform strategy (01)
- Define product vision and platform roadmaps for biometric IAM, IoT devices/platforms and ESS solutions across BFSI, eGovernance, Retail, and Industrial/Smart Manufacturing segments.
- Identify highvalue problems and usecases with business heads and key customers, translate them into product hypotheses and experiment backlogs.
- Shape solution blueprints (hardware, firmware, cloud, analytics) that extend your current embeddedhardware strength into full solutions and platforms.
- Deliver a targeted number of validated platform concepts taken to pilot per year.
- Drive adoption of new platforms across customer deals, increasing the share of platform-led solutions vs bespoke hardware-only solutions.
- Research, feasibility and IP
- Lead deeptech feasibility for new bets in AI/ML, biometrics, security, IoT/edge and ESS controls, balancing Can we with Should we build it from a commercial lens.
- Run structured PoCs and lab prototypes; define clear go/nogo criteria and success metrics before scaling.
- Drive an IP pipeline around algorithms, architectures, and control schemes, coordinate invention disclosures, patentability checks, and filings with external counsel.
- Build a measurable IP funnel tracked through invention disclosures, patent filings and patents granted.
- Gotomarket design (without full delivery ownership)
- Craft positioning, value propositions, and solution narratives for each platform in partnership with Marketing and Sales.
- Define reference architectures, pricing logic and deployment models (onprem/edge/cloud, OEM/whitelabel, managed service) for pilots and firstwave customers.
- Support selected lighthouse deals with domain/solution expertise and proofpoints from pilots; hand execution to engineering and delivery once patterns are validated.
- Create a measurable new product/platform revenue pipeline from pilots and lighthouse deals.
- Proto and pilot ownership (no BAU delivery)
- Own the lifecycle from idea lab prototype limited customer pilots; ensure designs are securebydesign and manufacturable.
- Work with Engineering Head to define clear handover criteria from pilot to scale (architecture baselines, backlog, documentation, nonfunctional requirements).
- Stay involved posthandover only as platform owner for roadmap and major architectural decisions, not daytoday project management.
- Collective decisionmaking and governance
- Run regular innovation/roadmap councils with CTO, CEO, Marketing and business heads to choose which bets to start, stop or scale.
- Maintain a simple portfolio view of innovation bets (stage, TRL, expected impact, risk) to guide investment decisions.
- Ensure compliance with biometric, KYC/AML, eGov and IoT/ESS security guidelines in all concepts and prototypes.
- Track portfolio performance through pilot throughput, revenue pipeline, IP outcomes and platform adoption metrics.
To qualify for the role, you must have
- 1015+ years across product, R D or platform roles in deeptech / embedded / IoT / ESS domains, with strong exposure to BFSI/IAM/eGov and/or industrial/energy sectors.
- Proven 01 experience: has taken deeptech products from concept to successful pilots or early commercial rollout.
- Demonstrated IP orientation (patents filed/granted, or platforms with defensible technical moats).
- Strong systems thinking (hardwarefirmwareclouddata), excellent stakeholder facilitation with CXO and business heads, and comfort working in an MSME/startup setting.
Key attributes for success
- Strategic thinking with strong commercial orientation.
- Ability to influence CXOs and business heads and drive cross-functional alignment.
- High ownership mindset with comfort in ambiguity
