At Johnson Controls, we're building the future of smart, sustainable, and AI-powered buildings through our OpenBlue platform. As Associate Director, Product Operations, you will be the operational leader enabling successful execution across our growing OpenBlue portfolio, helping product, engineering, AI, commercial, and customer success teams deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale.
You will play a critical role in connecting strategy to execution, ensuring alignment across teams, managing key customer programs, supporting commercial growth, and driving operational excellence across a diverse portfolio of digital and AI-enabled solutions.
What You Will Do
Lead Cross-Portfolio Program Execution
- Drive the successful delivery of complex, multi-product programs across the OpenBlue portfolio.
- Ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to strategic business priorities.
- Manage risks, dependencies, escalations, and resource alignment across multiple teams.
Enable Exceptional Customer Success
- Act as a trusted partner to Customer Success teams and serve as a key escalation point for portfolio-wide customer needs.
- Support customer onboarding, adoption, and expansion efforts across OpenBlue solutions.
- Help ensure customer feedback is translated into actionable product and operational improvements.
Support Commercial Growth
- Partner with Commercial and Sales teams to support RFPs, RFIs, and strategic customer opportunities.
- Coordinate contributions from Product, Engineering, AI, UI/UX, and Delivery teams to develop compelling customer proposals.
- Track proposal outcomes and identify opportunities to improve future win rates.
Drive Portfolio Planning and Operational Excellence
- Lead integrated Program Increment (PI) planning activities across Product, Engineering, AI, and UX teams.
- Ensure roadmap alignment, visibility, and execution consistency across the OpenBlue portfolio.
- Foster collaboration and transparency to support efficient decision-making and delivery.
Support Portfolio Performance and Growth
- Monitor portfolio health through financial, operational, and customer success metrics.
- Partner with Product and Finance leaders on forecasting, budgeting, profitability tracking, and resource planning.
- Help ensure investments align with strategic growth objectives.
Accelerate AI and Portfolio Transformation
- Support the evolution of OpenBlue toward AI-native and GenAI-powered solutions.
- Partner with product and AI leaders to operationalize new technologies across the portfolio.
- Help establish scalable delivery frameworks that support innovation and customer value.
How You Will Do It
- Build strong relationships across Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Commercial, Finance, and AI teams.
- Bring structure, governance, and operational discipline to complex, fast-moving initiatives.
- Use data and business insights to drive decision-making and prioritization.
- Facilitate alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities and objectives.
- Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution to ensure business outcomes are achieved.
- Create clear communication channels that keep teams informed, engaged, and focused on customer success.
What We Are Looking For
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, Product Management, Business Operations, or related leadership roles.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale, cross-functional programs within technology, SaaS, digital platform, or enterprise software environments.
- Strong experience working across Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
- Experience leading complex stakeholder groups and influencing executive-level decision making.
- Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, PI Planning, and portfolio management practices.
- Strong financial and business acumen, including forecasting, budgeting, profitability tracking, and portfolio reporting.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in a highly collaborative, global environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise software RFPs and complex customer procurement processes.
- Background in smart buildings, IoT, sustainability, workplace solutions, HVAC technologies, or digital building platforms.
- Experience working with AI, machine learning, GenAI, or AI-enabled product portfolios.
- Familiarity with OpenBlue or comparable enterprise platforms.
- PMP, Agile, SAFe, or other relevant project/program management certifications.
- Experience managing large-scale portfolios within enterprise B2B organizations.
Why Join Us?
You'll have the opportunity to shape the operational future of OpenBlue while working at the intersection of digital transformation, AI innovation, sustainability, and smart building technology. This is a highly visible leadership role with significant impact across product strategy, customer success, commercial growth, and portfolio performance.
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, Product Management, Business Operations, or related leadership roles
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale, cross-functional programs within technology, SaaS, digital platform, or enterprise software environments
- Strong experience working across Product, Engineering, and Business teams
- Experience leading complex stakeholder groups and influencing executive-level decision making
- Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, PI Planning, and portfolio management practices
- Strong financial and business acumen, including forecasting, budgeting, profitability tracking, and portfolio reporting
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to operate effectively in a highly collaborative, global environment
- Experience supporting enterprise software RFPs and complex customer procurement processes
- Background in smart buildings, IoT, sustainability, workplace solutions, HVAC technologies, or digital building platforms
- Experience working with AI, machine learning, GenAI, or AI-enabled product portfolios
- Familiarity with OpenBlue or comparable enterprise platforms
- PMP, Agile, SAFe, or other relevant project/program management certifications
- Experience managing large-scale portfolios within enterprise B2B organizations
Johnson Controls Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of the package through employer 401(k) matching, repeatedly framed as a strong pillar of the overall rewards mix. The matching contribution is described with specific match levels in multiple places, reinforcing perceived value for long-term saving.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is presented as comparatively robust, with multiple paid holiday categories, vacation time, and sick time described as generous or “amazing” in places. Paid time off breadth appears to be a consistent contributor to total rewards attractiveness beyond base pay.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits are described as broad and customizable, spanning standard medical/dental/vision plus optional add-ons like pet insurance, identity protection, and legal support. Tuition reimbursement is repeatedly highlighted as a high-value option supporting professional development.
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What We Do
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that matter most. Dedicated to protecting the environment, we deliver our promise in industries such as healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over 130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers’ mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as Tyco®, York®, Metasys®, Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®, Penn®, Sabroe®, Simplex®, Ansul® and Grinnell®.
