Global Senior Director, Product Management — Liquid Cooling

At LiquidStack , we’re redefining what’s possible in the data center world. As a global leader in advanced liquid cooling solutions, we’re powering the future of AI, edge computing, and high-performance systems. Our team is growing, and we’re looking for skilled professionals who want to be part of something innovative and impactful. Position Summary At Trane Technologies, we challenge everything possible to deliver leading thermal products, technology and services to help our customers perform with minimal carbon footprint. We serve a broad variety of markets with specific attention to the Data Center market. The Global Senior Director, Product Management — Liquid Cooling is responsible for defining and executing the global product strategy, portfolio, and roadmap for liquid cooling solutions serving the rapidly evolving data center market. This role will lead the global product management organization and establish a unified product vision across regions, customers, and market segments. The position will translate customer requirements, market trends, competitive dynamics, technology developments, and business objectives into differentiated products and solutions that drive profitable growth. Working closely with Engineering, Sales, Business Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Service, Marketing, and regional leadership, the Global Senior Director will ensure that the liquid cooling portfolio is strategically aligned, commercially compelling, technically differentiated, scalable, and positioned for global deployment. The role will serve as a key global leader in the development of the company's liquid cooling strategy and will play a critical role in establishing the company as a leading provider of thermal management solutions for AI and high-density data centers. Key Responsibilities - Define the long-term product vision, portfolio architecture, and investment priorities across liquid cooling technologies and solutions. - Establish a global product roadmap that balances customer requirements, technology evolution, competitive positioning, revenue opportunities, and profitability. - Manage the product lifecycle from market opportunity identification through development, launch, growth, and end-of-life. - Establish clear portfolio segmentation, product positioning, value propositions, and differentiation. - Maintain a deep understanding of the global data center market, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, OEMs, system integrators, and other strategic customers. - Translate customer and market needs into actionable product requirements and investment priorities. - Establish structured mechanisms for capturing and prioritizing global customer feedback. - Partner with key customers to validate emerging product concepts and strategic roadmap priorities. - Monitor competitive offerings, pricing, technology developments, and market positioning. - Partner with Engineering and R&D to translate market requirements into technical specifications and development priorities. - Ensure disciplined product-development processes, including stage-gate governance, business cases, customer validation, launch readiness, and lifecycle management. - Ensure product platforms are designed for scalability, manufacturability, serviceability, regulatory compliance, and global deployment. - Establish clear product performance, cost, quality, reliability, and time-to-market targets. - Partner with Sales to establish target markets, customers, channels, applications, and commercialization priorities. - Define product positioning, pricing strategy, value propositions, and competitive differentiation. - Develop global product launch plans and ensure regional organizations have the tools, training, documentation, and commercial resources required for successful launches. - Support strategic customer engagements and major opportunities where product strategy or technical-commercial decisions are critical.