Principal Product Manager

Tract Capital Management is a company focused on digital infrastructure investment, leveraging extensive experience to drive innovation in the sector. The Principal Product Manager will partner with Product Engineering to define product strategy and lead the development of advanced mechanical systems for data center infrastructure, ensuring products meet design intent while achieving cost, quality, scalability, and deployment objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Define product strategy, requirements, and roadmaps for advanced mechanical infrastructure products
• Translate business objectives, customer needs, and infrastructure strategy into prioritized product plans
• Balance performance, cost, manufacturability, reliability, scalability, and deployment requirements
• Lead new product development from concept through validation, NPI, and production
• Drive stage-gate execution, program schedules, budgets, risks, and product launch activities
• Partner with engineering teams to transition prototypes into scalable manufacturing
• Manage relationships with OEMs, contract manufacturers, fabricators, and key suppliers
• Drive supplier performance across quality, cost, delivery, capacity, and production readiness
• Partner with suppliers on manufacturing strategies, value engineering, and design-to-cost initiatives
• Collaborate with Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Procurement, Operations, Finance, and external partners to deliver successful product launches
• Serve as the primary product owner, aligning stakeholders on priorities, scope, risks, and execution
• Ensure products integrate seamlessly into design, construction, commissioning, and long-term operations
• Support product validation, testing, quality standards, and regulatory compliance
• Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous product improvement
• Partner with Supply Chain to manage sourcing strategies, production planning, inventory, and launch readiness
• Communicate product strategy, priorities, risks, and status to technical teams and executive leadership
• Ensure product documentation, installation guides, commissioning procedures, and training materials support successful deployment