Senior Director

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.
• Drive global consistency while allowing appropriate regional adaptation.
• Establish portfolio performance metrics and regularly communicate progress, risks, and investment requirements to senior leadership.
• Eliminate unnecessary regional product proliferation and promote common platforms, architectures, and scalable solutions where appropriate.
• Incorporate cost, sourcing, capacity, lead time, quality, and manufacturing requirements into product decisions.
• Ensure new products are designed with appropriate supply-chain resilience and global manufacturing strategies.
• Partner with Field Service and Customer Service to ensure products are maintainable, supportable, and capable of meeting global customer expectations.
• Establish product lifecycle strategies for spare parts, serviceability, upgrades, and obsolescence.
• Ensure product launches are supported by appropriate manufacturing, service, and project-management readiness.
• Monitor product and portfolio performance and initiate corrective actions where required.
• Partner with Finance and Commercial leadership to develop pricing, margin, and profitability strategies.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global product management organization.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and career paths for global product managers.
• Build strong collaboration between global product management and regional product management, commercial, engineering, and operational teams.
• Serve as a mentor and thought leader for product management across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in product management, product strategy, business development, engineering, or related technology leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing complex technology products and portfolios.
• Experience in data centers, HVAC, thermal management, liquid cooling, semiconductor infrastructure, power infrastructure, or a closely related industry strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading global teams and managing products across multiple geographic markets.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, product development, commercialization, and portfolio strategy.
• Demonstrated financial and commercial acumen, including business-case development, pricing, margin management, and investment prioritization.
• Experience working with hyperscalers, colocation providers, OEMs, system integrators, or other major data center customers is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, strategic, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly technical, global environment.

Job Requirements

• Valid US passport and driver’s license with ability to travel domestically & internationally 20% to 30% of the time.
• Attend meetings to support customers, regional teams, engineering and manufacturing locations, strategic partners, key industry events, management and team meetings.
• Proficiency with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), New Product Development (NPD).
• Experience with product roadmap, requirements management, and project portfolio management tools.
• Strong analytical capabilities using business intelligence, reporting, and data visualization tools to evaluate product, market, financial, and operational performance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Ability to understand and translate controls, monitoring, BMS/DCIM, and thermal-management systems into product requirements and customer value propositions.
• Strong understanding of digital product capabilities, connectivity, controls, telemetry, software, and data requirements associated with modern liquid cooling and data center infrastructure.

Why Join Trane Technologies

At Trane Technologies, we create innovative climate solutions that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. In this role, you will help shape a growing business in the liquid cooling portfolio, work across a highly collaborative global organization, and contribute to solutions that support critical customer applications and a more sustainable future.