Product Manager, Data Center Thermal Solutions
Company: Johnson Controls
Location: Freedom
Posted on: March 17, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Johnson Controls is developing a thermal
management ecosystem enabling continuous technical advancements and
delivering reliable, scalable, and energy efficient cooling
solutions tailored to the evolving needs of global data centers. Do
new product introductions and enhancing sustaining products in a
fast-paced environment excite you? Join us as a Product Manager,
where you can make an impact on our customers and our business. You
will lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of
thermal management products and systems for data centers. This role
requires a blend of technical expertise, market insight, and
business acumen to deliver innovative solutions that meet the
evolving needs of hyperscale, enterprise, and edge data centers.
You will focus on long-term customer satisfaction, competitive
advantage, market share growth, and increased profitability across
our data center thermal product portfolio This is a hybrid position
located in New Freedom, PA or Milwaukee, WI. We would like you to
come into the office at least 3 days a week. Candidates must be
within commuting distance to New Freedom, PA, or Milwaukee, WI or
able to relocate. How you will do it: Manage the end-to-end
lifecycle and business results of a product line. Supports the
completion of key projects/programs within the business; partners
with key functions, accountable for the overall project/program;
projects/programs are on time and within budget. Supports alignment
of project/program scope and objectives. Supports the development
of project/program budgets. Develop product road maps and strategic
business plans. Prioritize activities and actions that can be taken
in developing a business or strategic plan. Drives the development
of a strategy for a specific area of influence, as demonstrated by
business and profit growth. Gather and analyze economic, financial,
market, and industry information; industry share, ROI, IRR, NPV,
etc. Ability to apply pricing strategies into business strategy,
understand the ripple effect analysis of price decisions, and
conduct customer segmentation / win-loss analytics/price
realization contribution. Manage legacy products/services/offerings
and develop innovative products/services/offerings and business
models. Owns the product profitability and drives positive results.
Owns and maintains a competitive database of
products/services/offerings. Provide basic application information
to marketing to assist in collateral development, beginning to
establish low-level industry contacts/relationships. Drive a
customer-centric approach to managing products/services/offerings.
Drive value propositions into compelling business cases that result
in business growth. Foster relationships at key customers. Assists
in supporting channel partners. Articulate and communicate the
findings and implications; provide the “so what” analytics around
the “what” (i.e., data/information). Drive actions, the “now what”,
within the product/service/offering. What you will need Bachelor’s
degree required in business, marketing, engineering, or equivalent
experience. 10 years’ experience, 2-3 years of
product/service/offering management experience. Strong
understanding of data center design and operations and advanced
thermal management technologies is a plus. Experience with how to
work well with and provide direction and leadership to
highly-educated engineering teams. Experience with how to work well
with Sales and business leadership: present analysis of product
performance, cost, pricing, competitive benchmarking and market
trends to influence strategic business decisions. Preferred: MBA or
other graduate-level degree preferred, or equivalent combination of
education and work experience. Demonstrate a high-level of
understanding of market trends in the data center or related
industry. Experience with interfacing with customers, gathering
voice of customer and managing complex customer issues.
Demonstrated attention to detail, a commitment to quality and being
results-driven and customer-focused. Demonstrated ability to write
well, edit effectively, and present complex issues and projects
succinctly, logically, and persuasively. Basic understanding of the
budgeting process, and key financial indicators (i.e., ROI, IRR,
NPV). Ability to follow established guidelines and processes (i.e.,
Capital Requests). Basic understanding of the various types of
business models (subscription, product or service delivery,
distribution, etc.). Ability to gather and analyze economic,
financial, market, and industry information. Ability to understand
and implement details behind transactional pricing recommendations.
Understand strategic and market levers to pull to build successful
growth plans. Preferred basic level of knowledge of key industries
product/service/offering supports, basic level of knowledge of key
applications within key industries that the
product/service/offering supports. Ability to take calculated
risks, utilizing facts and data and scenario planning tools.
Understand the quality versus quantity around strategy development,
that a strategy is a process versus an event. Demonstrated ability
to prioritize activities and actions that can be taken in
developing a business or strategic plan; ability to say “no”. Basic
understanding of value pricing and value capture models Strong VOC
skill set and ability; seeks to understand customer experiences,
and provides meaningful VOC insights to drive business implications
(i.e., NPI, trade-offs, growth opportunities, etc.) Ability to
travel
Keywords: Johnson Controls, Rochester , Product Manager, Data Center Thermal Solutions, IT / Software / Systems , Freedom, New York
