The MV Product Development Manager is a high-impact Engineering Site Leader responsible for driving product definition, engineering alignment, and execution excellence across Vertiv’s Medium-Voltage switchgear portfolio. Reporting to the Senior R&D Engineering Manager, this role leads Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Test teams to ensure clear product specifications, strong technical direction, and seamless collaboration with design teams.
This position is accountable for translating customer needs and field insights into robust product requirements, enabling design teams to build reliable, high-quality solutions. The Product Development Manager plays a critical role in delivering fully certified solutions to the market.
The role sets the standard for execution by prioritizing initiatives, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and maintaining strong oversight of validation, testing, and release readiness. Additionally, this leader drives New Product Development (NPDI) effectiveness, accelerates time-to-market through better planning and coordination, and ensures engineering resources are focused on the highest-impact work.
Success in this role requires strong technical depth in Electrical/mechanical systems and design, decisive leadership, and the ability to influence product designs—bridging product definition and design execution to consistently deliver measurable business outcomes and improved customer experience. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of electrical engineering principles, extensive systems engineering background, an understanding of Product Engineering and New Product Development process, and experience in developing and managing a high-performing team.
This position requires full-time onsite presence at the Anderson, SC location.
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About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
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