Job Overview

TE Connectivity is a global technology leader that designs and manufactures connectivity and sensor solutions, serving industries that are transforming the future.

The Channel Business Unit (CBU) manages TE's global distribution network and plays a critical role in driving growth, enhancing customer experience, and enabling commercial excellence across more than 300 distributor partners worldwide.

The Channel BU brings together Sales Enablement, Marketing, Digital, PMO, and Data & Analytics functions to accelerate revenue growth, improve customer and distributor experiences, and drive operational excellence across the Channel ecosystem.

Within the CBU, the Digital team applies product management to lead end-to-end business transformation. The team works across functions to redesign commercial capabilities and operating models, using process improvement, technology, automation, data, and AI to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Role Definition

The Principal Digital Product Manager is an end-to-end business transformation owner responsible for defining and delivering measurable outcomes through strong product management, AI, change management, process reengineering, and disciplined execution.

This role will initially lead a strategic portfolio focused on transforming sales effectiveness and may expand to related Solution Center capabilities as commercial work and customer interactions evolve across teams. The role will also provide product leadership for the business use cases, experience requirements, and roadmap priorities that depend on Channel APIs and commercial data, partnering with Data & Analytics, TEIS, architects, security, and data-governance owners on technical design, standards, integration, and governance.

The Principal Digital Product Manager works backwards from customer, associate, and business needs to define the desired future state and the path required to reach it. They own the outcomes across both near-term and long-term horizons: simplifying, standardizing, automating, deprioritizing, or eliminating work where needed today, while simultaneously designing digitally native, connected, and scalable future-state capabilities.

AI is inherent in both how this person works and the solutions they design. The successful candidate will use AI to accelerate research, analysis, prototyping, workflow design, experimentation, and decision-making; build functional prototypes and lightweight solutions directly where appropriate; and partner with Engineering, Data & Analytics, and enterprise technology teams to scale production capabilities.

The Principal will operate as a senior individual contributor and trusted advisor for their assigned transformation portfolio. They will influence priorities across the functions required to deliver portfolio outcomes, coach Product Managers through their work, and contribute to broader Business Transformation standards and practices.

Short Description

What your background should look like:

Required
•    Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
•    8+ years of experience in digital product management, business transformation, process reengineering, commercial operations, enterprise technology, or related disciplines.
•    Proven ownership of complex, ambiguous, cross-functional products or transformation initiatives from problem definition and business case development through deployment, adoption, and value realization.
•    Demonstrated ability to work backwards from customer and business needs, define a compelling future-state vision, and translate it into a sequenced, executable transformation roadmap.
•    Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect product and operating-model decisions to revenue growth, customer share, productivity, cost avoidance, speed, accuracy, and customer experience.
•    Experience redesigning business processes and leading change across matrixed organizations involving business stakeholders, Engineering, UX, IT, data teams, and enterprise or external technology partners.
•    Demonstrated hands-on experience using AI-assisted development, automation, data, or low-code tools to build and validate functional prototypes, workflows, or proofs of value, with the ability to collaborate with Engineering to productionize and scale successful concepts.
•    Strong understanding of data, integrations, APIs, enterprise platforms, and technical trade-offs, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and architects.
•    Experience defining KPIs, building ROI-based business cases, prioritizing investments, and measuring value realization after launch.
•    Outstanding written and verbal communication, with demonstrated ability to frame complex decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and build alignment across functions without formal authority.
•    Demonstrated ability to coach others, raise the quality bar, and operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders.

Preferred
•    MBA, advanced technical degree, or equivalent experience.
•    Experience in Sales, Solution Center/Customer Care, pricing, quote-to-order, commercial operations, distribution/channel management, or related commercial processes.
•    Experience with Salesforce, SAP, CPQ or pricing platforms, Databricks, Azure, analytics platforms, workflow automation, APIs, and commercial data ecosystems.
•    Experience within industrial manufacturing, distribution, B2B technology, SaaS, or other complex global organizations.
•    Experience with Product Management, Design Thinking, Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, or change management methodologies

Competencies