Product Manager - Galaxy VXL Platform & Systems - High Power UPS Systems

Schneider Electric has a unique opportunity for a visionary product leader to assume the role of Product Manager - Galaxy VXL Platform & Systems. Reporting to the VP of Product within the Hyperscale Systems League, this role will lead the strategy, evolution, and commercial success of the Galaxy VXL portfolio, one of Schneider Electric's most strategic platforms serving the rapidly expanding hyperscale, cloud, colocation, and AI data center markets.

This position sits at the forefront of the next generation of critical power infrastructure, helping define how data centers are designed and operated in support of the global AI revolution. As power density, energy consumption, and grid constraints become defining challenges for the industry, this leader will shape the future of high-power UPS systems, intelligent power architectures, and integrated energy solutions that enable customers to deploy AI workloads at unprecedented scale. The role will connect customer needs, critical power architectures, and technology innovation into a coherent market and product strategy. Beyond ownership of the Galaxy VXL platform, responsibilities extend across system-level capabilities including AI load management, power smoothing, energy storage integration, grid interconnectivity, controls, and software-enabled operation. The position requires exceptional offer leadership, systems thinking, technical credibility, commercial acumen, and the ability to align global and regional teams around bold ambitions and measurable business outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

Product Strategy

• Define the strategy, positioning, and multi-year roadmap for Galaxy VXL and its platform evolution.
• Own growth, profitability, competitiveness, market share, and lifecycle outcomes across data center segments.
• Synthesize customer insights, market signals, regulations, competitive moves to set prioritize investments.
• Build business cases balancing market potential, customer value, platform reuse, investment, and execution risk.

Systems Approach

• Define system value propositions connecting Galaxy VXL, energy storage, switchgear, controls, software, services.
• Shape capabilities for dynamic AI loads, load smoothing, energy storage, generator & resilient power orchestration.
• Develop roadmap for grid interconnectivity, energy flexibility, demand response, microgrid & site-level optimization.
• Ensure system concepts reflect utility practices, customer architectures, installation constraints & operational needs.

Technical Stewardship

• Steward Galaxy VXL performance, reliability, efficiency, safety, cybersecurity, serviceability, and platform scalability.
• Partner with system architects to translate market need into system requirements & prioritized technical capabilities.
• Guide technology tradeoffs across power conversion, controls, batteries, communications & grid-connected features.
• Anticipate shifts & evolve platform relevance through modularity, standards compliance & future-ready interfaces.

Commercial Enablement

• Translate platform capabilities into compelling value propositions, differentiated positioning, competitive narratives.
• Engage strategic customers, consultants, & ecosystem partners to influence specifications & accelerate adoption.
• Support major pursuits & executive customer discussions on platform direction, system architecture, differentiation.
• Monitor funnel, win-loss themes, price realization, & adoption signals to sharpen commercial actions & roadmap.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Align global product, engineering, marketing, sales, operations, supply chain, quality, finance & services teams.
• Create transparent governance for priorities, dependencies, tradeoffs, key decisions, across platform initiatives.
• Partner across other LoBs to assemble complete architectures and resolve system-level ownership boundaries.
• Communicate progress, risks, decisions, & proposals to executive stakeholders, delivery & commercial orgs.

Desired Skills and Competencies

• 10+ years of product, offer, systems, engineering, or commercial leadership in mission-critical or adjacent industries.
• Expert knowledge of three-phase UPS, high-power conversion, controls, electrical or grid-connected systems.
• Experience defining product strategy, investment cases, lifecycle plans, & value propositions for complex platforms.
• Strong systems thinking across equipment, controls, software, deployment, services into coherent solutions.
• Ability to engage credibly with hyperscale, colocation, consultant, EPC, enterprise, utility, and technology-partners.
• Commercial and financial acumen, including growth planning, pricing, profitability, & business-case development.
• Proven ability to influence global, matrixed organizations & drive decisions without direct organizational authority.
• Executive communication skills, combining technical depth with concise narratives, clear tradeoffs & proposals.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power electronics, systems engineering; advanced degree a bonus.
• Comfort operating amid ambiguity, emerging technologies, fast-paced industries, & high-visibility business priorities.

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