Vice President, Development

At the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, we know that every career matters. Which is why you should conduct yours on a grand scale. Headquartered in the northwest Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, we are a division of Bosch, a multinational engineering and electronics organization and the largest privately held employer in the world.

Guided by the principles of founder Robert Bosch, we offer a setting where social and environmental responsibility are part of our corporate DNA. Always mindful of our impact on the future, we are committed to sustainability, paying it forward, giving back, and lifelong learning. These are but a few of the reasons why our parent company has more than 400,000 associates and a legacy of success spanning 135+ years.

With sales opportunities in retail, industrial, and e-commerce channels, we’re part of a global powerhouse earning $80 billion euros a year.

Play an integral role in a division that drives the success of our large, privately held consumer products organization. Offering the vast resources to maximize your effectiveness, we provide the support you need to achieve your most important objectives. Depending on your role within Sales, you can bring our products to market through three different and efficient channels: retail, industrial, and e-commerce. Featuring such popular brands as Bosch®, Dremel®, and Rotozip®, we offer opportunities to reinforce our strong reputation for quality, grow new business, and expand upon our existing relationships with some of the most influential distributors in power tools. 

This is your chance to Go big. Go bold. And use your sales skills to drive success on a massive scale, with the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation.

Robert Bosch Tool Corporation offers the competitive compensation, career-development resources, and benefits you would expect of a world leader, including health, medical, and financial plans; work/life balance; and flexible work options.

GO BIG. GO BOLD. GO BOSCH.

The Vice President, Development is a senior executive leader responsible for building and leading a newly established, multi-disciplinary development organization serving the Bosch Power Tools division in North America and the Dremel and Rotozip business globally.

Reporting directly to the President & CEO, Power Tools North America, this role owns the end-to-end product and technology strategy, portfolio governance, and execution engine that will define the next generation of category leadership. The role will build and lead a high-performance, multi-disciplinary development organization that integrates market insight, industrial design, engineering, product management, quality, regulatory, and program execution into a unified innovation system.

This leader will ensure the product roadmap is born from deep North American market insight, validated by commercial performance, aligned to global platform strategies, and executed with speed, discipline, and world-class technical rigor.

The Vice President, Development will directly shape the future competitiveness, profitability, and innovation leadership of Bosch Power Tools North America and the global Dremel and Rotozip businesses. This role is central to defining how Bosch wins in the marketplace — through superior technology, disciplined portfolio management, operational excellence, and deep customer understanding.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Vision & Market-Driven Roadmap

• Define and execute a development strategy aligned with the growth objectives of Bosch Power Tools North America and Dremel globally.
• Build a 5 year product roadmap rooted in North American consumer, end user and customer insights and validated by commercial performance.
• Ensure all product investments are backed by rigorous market data, application understanding, and financial discipline.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, and Operations to translate strategy into differentiated, scalable solutions.

Leadership of a Multi-Disciplinary Development Organization

Lead and integrate a unified organization spanning:

• Market Insights
• Industrial Design
• Engineering
• Product Management
• Quality Management
• Test & Qualification Laboratories
• Product Safety & Regulatory Compliance

Responsibilities include:

• Building a high-performance, end-to-end lifecycle operating model.
• Establishing clear decision rights across regional and global matrix stakeholders.
• Developing leadership bench strength and succession pipelines.
• Attracting and retaining top functional talent across all disciplines.
• Driving an agile, accountable, and performance-oriented culture.
• Leading organizational transformation to improve velocity, collaboration, and innovation output.

Engineering, Quality & Compliance Excellence

• Drive technical innovation while ensuring superior product performance, durability, and reliability.
• Ensure world-class product performance, durability, and reliability aligned with Bosch & Dremel brand standards.
• Strengthen validation rigor through advanced simulation, digital engineering tools, and lab capability expansion.
• Own product safety, regulatory compliance (UL, CSA, DOE, EPA, global standards), and recall avoidance systems.

Portfolio Governance & Financial Performance

• Accountable for delivering defined revenue contribution from products launched.
• Drive gross margin expansion through innovation, cost engineering, and platform leverage.
• Own annual R&D capital and operating budgets.
• Implement rigorous stage-gate governance with quantified portfolio scoring (ROI, strategic fit, capacity load, risk profile).
• Establish clear kill/continue decision discipline and portfolio health metrics.
• Reduce warranty costs and lifecycle quality expenses through robust design and validation systems.

Key Performance Indicators include:

• % Revenue from New Products
• Time-to-Market Reduction
• Platform Reuse Rate
• Development Cost per SKU
• Warranty Rate Reduction
• Patent Filings
• Sustainability Impact Metrics

Organizational & Talent Development

• Build, develop, and inspire high-performing technical and product leadership teams.
• Attract and retain top engineering and product talent in a competitive environment.
• Establish succession pipelines and leadership bench strength.
• Foster a culture of urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Proven executive leadership experience in product development, engineering, or R&D within a complex, branded, multi-channel, global consumer and commercial durables products organization.
• Demonstrated success leading large, cross-functional development teams with significant revenue impact.
• Track record of launching commercially successful products in competitive North American markets.
• Experience operating in global matrix organizations with regional and global brand responsibilities.
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing significant capital and operating budgets.
• Deep understanding of quality systems, product safety, compliance, and regulatory environments.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Strategic architect with the ability to transform a strong existing organization into a high-performance development organization, unlocking the full potential of our brands and categories in the North American market.
• Visionary leader who creates clarity from complexity and sets direction with confidence.
• Insight-driven and customer-focused, translating market needs into winning products.Decisive and execution-oriented, with a strong bias for speed and accountability.
• Talent developer committed to building the next generation of leaders.
• Demonstrated success working effectively across global & local matrixed organizations for local impact while leveraging the best of the global capabilities.

BOSCH is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives:

• FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
• AWIM (A World In Motion)

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

Thanks to the work of every associate, Bosch has been recognized for award-winning culture by the following organizations:

• Great Place to Work™ Certified, 2024
• Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, 2024
• America’s Best Large Employers, 2024
• America’s Best Employers for Diversity, 2024
• America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women, Newsweek 2024
• Greatest Workplaces for Diversity, Newsweek 2024
• Bosch Power Tools was recognized as one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces in Manufacturing 2025
• Forbes' America's Best Employers for New Grads 2025

Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only. Future sponsorship for work authorization is not available.

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $240,000 to $308,000. Within the range, individual pay is determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, work experience and job knowledge, complexity of the role, job location, etc.

In addition to your base salary, Bosch offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts (HSA); flexible spending accounts; 401(K) retirement plan with an attractive employer match; wellness programs; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; parental leave, adoption assistance; and reimbursement of education expenses. Learn more about our full benefits offerings by visiting: https://www.myboschbenefits.com/public/welcome. Pay ranges included in the postings generally reflect base salary; certain positions may include bonus, commission, or additional benefits. This position includes bonus potential, LTI and a company vehicle.

Salary estimates published on online job boards, rather than the Bosch US Careers Page, may not be a true representation of the actual pay range offered for this position.