Product & Business Leader I’m most useful when the real problem isn’t fully defined…

I go to the source – dig into the data, get dirty in the field, go back to first principles – and generate a plan that’s usually a little ahead of where the organization expected to land. The buy-in is rarely immediate, but the outcomes tend to hold – whether it’s robots, renewables, energy storage, lasers, or industrial products.

Best-Fit Scope: Product Line GM / BU Leader, VP / Director of Product with P&L ownership; Domains: Physical AI, Autonomous Systems, Modern Energy, Distributed Energy Resources

Jason Mevius headshot

Turning strategy into portfolio bets

Translate market input into portfolio bets, sequencing, and tradeoffs leadership can commit to.

Delivering outcomes that show up in the P&L

Drive business performance through product levers: cost structure, pricing & monetization, and operational efficiency.

Building operating systems that sustain execution

Build the operating cadence – reviews, metrics, and decision rules – that reduces thrash and accelerates delivery.

Experience & Impact

Representative proof-points that compound results across execution, economics, and organizational scale:

  • 40 Person Org Leadership
  • $150M Pipeline Funnel
  • 15 Core Markets Targeted
  • 18 Patents Awarded
  • $100M Projected 5-year Revenue
  • $5M+ Cost-out Delivered
  • 45% Proposal → Contract Lift
  • $4M Cost-out P&L Impact
  • 28% FPY Improvement
  • 55% Lead-time Reduction
2025 – Present

Autonomous Solutions

Business Unit Leader, Renewables
2025 – Present

Building and scaling ASI’s Renewable Energy Vertical from 0→1; defining the market, roadmap, and operating system required to turn autonomous capability into repeatable field outcomes.

Early Traction
  • Led 20+ customer and market discovery interviews; prioritized the 15 highest-potential sub-segments to focus investment and GTM activity.
  • Built a 24-month roadmap with phased MVP acceptance criteria tied to deployment readiness and field outcomes.
ASI Construction: New Market Vertical
ASI Construction: New Market Vertical

ASI Construction is ASI’s new business unit, focused on automating equipment to address growing construction demand and dwindling labor supply.

2022 – 2025

Sunnova Energy

Group Product Line Manager, C&I + Microgrid
2022 – 2025

Extended Sunnova’s residential EaaS portfolio into C&I and Microgrid markets – owning strategy, offering definition, and execution across the full DER tech stack. The work was translating evolving market needs into shipped, financeable offerings with clear commercial outcomes: repeatable, bankable, and serviceable across PV, ESS, EV Charging, and early-stage V2G / V2H development.

  • Built and integrated the DER offering stack that drove a $150M pipeline in 2024 – creating repeatable, bankable offerings across solar, storage, EV charging, and grid services.
  • Drove a $5M+ cost-saving IIoT Monitoring & Control rollout and pulled launch forward by 12+ months by aligning Product, Engineering, and Operations from scope through deployment.
  • Improved proposal-to-contract conversion by 45% YoY across ~200 proposals by tightening offer fit and pairing it with sales-enablement grounded in customer discovery.
2021 – 2022

Fluence Energy

Senior Product Line Manager
2021 – 2022

Owned portfolio-wide profitability for grid-scale ESS offerings at a high-growth energy storage company – driving margin improvement through TCO strategy, cost structure decisions, and delivery performance.

  • Built TCO roadmaps for long- and short-duration storage offerings; identified and executed initiatives delivering 22% portfolio margin improvement.
  • Restructured container design, sourcing strategy, and commissioning approach; removed $3.9M in annual BOM spend without compromising delivery performance.
Fast Company: Fluence 2021 Top 10 Innovation
Fast Company: 2021 Top 10 Innovation

Fluence sold $1B worth of energy storage equipment in 2021, helping electrical grids avoid commissioning coal-burning, peaker power plants.

2018 – 2020

Coherent

Product Line Manager
2018 – 2020

Owned product growth and P&L for VCSEL laser product lines – roadmap/spec definition, strategic accounts, and global GTM – turning complex tech into deployable products.

  • Won two flagship customers with $100M projected 5-year revenue by owning definition, pricing, and adoption-critical tradeoffs (+19% margin, eliminated eye-safety barrier).
  • Launched an automotive in-cabin sensing platform with a 10-year roadmap and 60%+ contribution margin, delivering under demanding customer audits.
  • Streamlined portfolio and improved margin 11% through data-driven product pruning and disciplined EOL – maintained 100% customer uptime.
2012 – 2018

Eaton

Director of Engineering
2012 – 2018

Led product development for Eaton’s Enclosures Division across NPD, ETO, and VA/VE – prioritization, execution discipline, and cost structure across a multi-site footprint.

  • Led a 40-person product development org; built scalable talent systems (career ladders, succession planning, development plans, capability assessments).
  • Delivered $35M in vitality sales (+29%) by aligning NPD investment to market demand and sustainability trends.
  • Transformed ETO design/production end-to-end: 55% lead-time reduction, 36% YoY sales growth (Y1), and +28% first-pass yield via quality-gate execution.
Engineering Manager (2012 – 2013)

Built a VA/VE team and operating cadence to deliver repeatable cost-out across legacy products division-wide.

  • Owned a $4.0M cost-out P&L (~3% COGS) across seven sites by standing up VA/VE governance with clear ownership and follow-through.
  • Supported M&A integration; identified $2.4M in synergy opportunities and led site deep-dives averaging $350K annual savings per location.
2003 – 2012

Emerson

Senior Design Engineer
2003 – 2012

Design lead for global Oil & Gas development programs, consolidating acquired products into a scalable platform at the intersection of architecture, manufacturability, and global execution.

  • Drove a multi-year platform architecture transformation and formalized design / IP processes; 14 patents awarded.
  • Led China-based design and test teams of 12 engineers, using extended on-site collaboration to keep design, test, and factory feedback tightly connected.
  • Consolidated 20 legacy designs into 6 platform variants – expanded globally served markets by $21M, reduced suppliers by 63% and components by 54%, and improved blended margin by 28%.

Early in my career as an engineer, I learned to just fulfill the brief. Later, I learned that’s not nearly enough. The distance between a technically correct solution and one that works in the market is where most product efforts quietly fail – and where I’ve spent my career.

Good products don’t fail because of bad engineering. They fail because no one was certain enough about the right problem to protect the team from the wrong one. That certainty – earned, not assumed – is what I bring.

Business models are too important to be left to the suits. If Engineers are going to make the best of their ideas, they must help develop that business model.

Henry Chesbrough, UCB Haas

Patents & Design-Led Innovation

Patented contributions that reflect how I work best – turning constraints into differentiated, manufacturable designs that perform in the real world; 18 separate filings awarded.

Continual Learning

Formal programs that help me lead with more clarity: making decisions with less noise, framing tradeoffs in business terms, and pressure-testing solutions from an engineering and systems perspective.

Increase Product Leverage with AI

Building practical AI fluency to improve discovery, prioritization, and execution quality – while keeping accountability front and center.

Faster business cases and finding “needle-in-haystack” data.

Business-driven Product Decisions

Intentional pivot from leading engineering to owning total outcomes – so product decisions translate into real commercial results.

Turning roadmap debates into quantified “what moves the P&L” decisions.

Systems Thinking under Constraints

A technical foundation for stronger tradeoffs across systems, manufacturability, and delivery under real-world constraints.

Simplifying architectures so build, test, and service scale cleanly.

International Leadership

I’ve done product work globally – customer integration, partner coordination, and manufacturing support across time zones. The value isn’t the travel; face-to-face time builds trust faster and surfaces the motivations behind decisions – de-risking integration, reducing surprises, and accelerating alignment on interfaces and acceptance criteria.

Team Mevius

I’m intentional about recognizing the role my family plays in my work – they’re the foundation that lets me take on ambitious problems with focus and perspective. They also keep me grounded, honest, and (usually) laughing.

Jason Mevius - Husband / Father

Jason

I enjoy cooking, chasing a better putting stroke, and making a great Old Fashioned. I like learning things purely because they’re hard (finally solved a Rubik’s Cube!).

Jessica Mevius - Wife / Mother

Jessica

Married since 2004. Jessica is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and owns Therapy Squared – steady, thoughtful, and an incredible wife & mother.

William Mevius - Son

William

Cross Country, Theater, and a new Eagle Scout. He’s also a 3D printing enthusiast – always experimenting, iterating, and building.

Charlotte Mevius - Dog

Charlotte

My work-from-home supervisor: loyal sidekick, routine enforcer, and always ready for the next walk treat.

Let’s Connect

I’m heads-down building ASI’s renewable energy vertical from scratch – the kind of 0→1 problem I find hard to walk away from. I stay open to select GM-track conversations where there’s real ownership on the table.

Best-Fit Scope: Product Line GM / BU Leader, VP / Director of Product with P&L ownership;
Domains: Physical AI, Autonomous Systems, Modern Energy, Distributed Energy Resources

DFW-based and remote-ready – and no stranger to showing up where it matters.

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