Product Manager - Thermal Management Systems

Daikin Applied Americas is a global HVAC company seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and commercial growth of its thermal management product portfolio. The role owns the product lifecycle from concept through launch, partnering with engineering, sales, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance, and customers to deliver energy-efficient cooling solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own the multi-year product roadmap and strategic vision for our thermal management portfolio, liquid cooling systems, and related heat-rejection equipment
• Market & Customer Insights: Conduct voice-of-customer (VoC) research and competitive analysis to identify emerging market trends, regulatory shifts, and unmet customer requirements
• New Product Development (NPD): Translate market demands into detailed product specifications. Partner with R&D and engineering to guide product development, managing cost, manufacturability, performance targets, and launch timelines
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and finance teams to optimize product margins, oversee value-engineering (Cost-Out) projects, and ensure supply chain resilience
• Commercialization & Go-to-Market: Create high-impact product positioning, pricing strategies, technical literature, and sales-enablement training to support global sales channels and regional execution
• Lifecycle Management: Monitor ongoing product adoption, field performance, and profitability, executing lifecycle updates, enhancements, or phase-outs as necessary

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business, or a related technical discipline
• 3+ years of related experience in product management, application engineering, or product marketing within the HVAC, building automation, or industrial thermal management sector
• Strong working knowledge of HVAC systems, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, chillers, or cooling infrastructure
• Excellent cross-functional leadership, communication, and stakeholder-influence abilities across engineering and commercial teams
• Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position
• Direct experience with data center thermal architecture or liquid cooling technologies (CDUs, direct-to-chip cooling) and Dry Coolers