Head of Technology & Innovation

Role overview

Head of Technology & Innovation at Bosch Global Software Technologies

Technology Foresight & Strategic Direction Establish and continuously refresh technology roadmaps aligned to SDS.AI’s business strategy, growth priorities, and client needs.

Responsibilities

• Monitor emerging technologies, AI, engineering, cloud, data, automation, and digital transformation trends; translate implications into clear strategic choices.
• Provide executive leadership with concise technology assessments, opportunity theses, and recommendations on build, buy, partner, or incubate decisions.
• Identify technology discontinuities, competitive threats, and adjacent opportunities that can materially influence future market positioning.
• Innovation Portfolio & Incubation Design and lead an innovation pipeline that captures ideas, prioritizes investments, validates concepts, and advances viable initiatives through defined stage gates.
• Incubate new capabilities, accelerators, platforms, and technology-led offerings from concept through pilot, proof of value, and transition to business ownership.
• Set success criteria, resourcing needs, risk controls, and commercialization pathways for innovation initiatives.
• Create a disciplined innovation operating model that balances exploration with measurable business impact and speed to market.
• Capability & Offering Development Partner with business, delivery, sales, and solutioning leaders to convert validated concepts into differentiated capabilities and client-ready offerings.
• Define reusable assets, reference architectures, methods, and talent requirements needed to scale new capabilities.
• Support portfolio decisions by identifying where technology investments create a distinctive right to win.
• Champion adoption of new offerings internally and ensure feedback from clients and delivery teams informs their evolution.
• Ecosystem & Thought Leadership Build purposeful relationships with startups, academia, hyperscalers, technology providers, and specialist partners to broaden SDS.AI’s innovation capacity.
• Lead technology scouting, joint exploration, and co-innovation activities with priority ecosystem partners.
• Represent SDS.AI in relevant technology forums and strengthen its credibility as a forward-looking AI, engineering, and digital partner.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, knowledge sharing, and responsible innovation across the organization Essential Experience & Qualifications Significant leadership experience in technology, innovation, engineering, AI, digital transformation, or a closely related field.
• Strong understanding of emerging technologies and the ability to assess their technical, commercial, and operational relevance.
• Demonstrated experience incubating new capabilities, offerings, products, or technology initiatives through to business adoption.
• Ability to translate technology trends into compelling business cases, investment priorities, and actionable roadmaps.
• Established ecosystem engagement across startups, academia, hyperscalers, and technology providers.
• Strong executive communication, influence, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ideal Candidate Profile Strategic technology leader who combines external foresight with practical delivery discipline.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, testing hypotheses, and making informed investment trade-offs.
• Commercially minded, collaborative, and able to connect technical possibilities with client and business value.
• Credible advisor to senior leaders and an energizing sponsor of innovation teams.
• B.E/BTech, M.E/MTech, MBA 15- 20 years of experience

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru (prev. Bangalore) [India]

About the employer

• Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions.

Additional role details

• With over 25,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
• Role Summary Drive technology foresight, innovation, and incubation activities that strengthen SDS.AI’s future competitiveness and enable differentiated capabilities and offerings.
• The role converts emerging technology developments into pragmatic business opportunities, working across the enterprise and external ecosystem to move promising ideas from insight to scalable adoption.