Liquid Cooling – Product Offering Manager (Asia)
Position Summary/Objectives of Incumbent:
A Liquid Cooling – Product Offering Manager is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle, strategic direction and commercial success of Liquid Cooling products within Data Center environments. They bridge the gap between technical engineering teams and market needs, focusing on high-density cooling solutions like CoolChip.
Responsibilities:
- Product Strategy and Roadmap Development: Define and maintain the long-term roadmap for CDU products, aligning them with market trends in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and sustainability goals.
- Market Analysis and "Voice of Customer" (VoC): Conduct competitor analysis and gather customer feedback to identify requirements for new features or products, ensuring the offering meets specific industry needs.
- Product Lifecycle Management: Manage the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization and development to launch and eventual phase-out, ensuring profitability and market relevance.
- Business Case and Financial Ownership: Develop business cases for new products, set pricing strategies, and manage product line profitability, including volume forecasts and margin analysis.
- Technical Product Positioning: Act as the subject matter expert (SME) on CDU technology, providing technical insights to cross-functional teams and translating complex technical features into clear value propositions for marketing and sales collateral.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, R&D, manufacturing, quality, and sales teams to ensure successful product development and on-time delivery.
- Sales Enablement and Support: Create sales tools, presentations, competitive comparisons, and white papers. Provide SME (Subject Matter Expert) training program and act as a technical escalation point for complex client opportunities.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure products comply with industry standards and safety regulations
Employees reporting to Incumbent
- Nil (Individual Contributor)
Main contacts within Company
- R&Ds, Sales & Pre-Sales Team, Asia Product & Solution team, Pricing, Supply Chain, Planner, Channel Team, Quality, Supply Chain and Service Team
Main contacts outside the Company
- Channel Partners, Customers, Contractors, Strategic partners, Consultant, & Government Agencies.
Education/Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Thermal preferred) or Business
- 5–10+ years of experience in product management, with a strong preference for background in data center cooling, HVAC, or liquid cooling technologies.
- Strong technical understanding of liquid-to-liquid and liquid-to-air cooling systems, fluid dynamics, and heat exchangers.
- Experience with New Product Development (NPD) processes.
Specialist Knowledge:
Deep understanding of:
- Loop Management: Separation of facility water loops (FWS) from technology cooling loops (TCS).
- Coolant Quality: Filtration requirements and water chemistry management to protect server components.
- Control Systems: Precision regulation of flow, pressure, and temperature to prevent condensation and overheating
Practical Experience:
- Proven track record of taking complex hardware products from concept to market launch
- Experience developing multi-year product roadmaps and data-driven business cases that align with market shifts like AI-driven rack densities
- Hands-on experience or deep technical familiarity with Liquid Cooling CDUs, and secondary loop (TCS) management
Personal Characteristics:
- Holistically system mindset on entire data center ecosystem.
- Confidence to commit to a roadmap or pricing strategy even market standards are evolving.
- Persuasive communication skills, “translator” between deep-level engineering and commercial decision making.
- Obsessive focus on reliability and quality standards.
- Learning agility and the ability to stay abreast of technology trends and competitive landscape.
- Display strong communication and teamwork attributes working with internal and external stakeholders
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
- Customer Focus
- Operational Excellence
- High-Performance Culture
- Innovation
- Financial Strength
OUR BEHAVIORS
- Own It
- Act With Urgency
- Foster a Customer-First Mindset
- Think Big and Execute
- Lead by Example
- Drive Continuous Improvement
- Learn and Seek Out Development
At Vertiv, we’re on a mission to empower the people that will power the future. From a simple swipe to life-changing medicines, from push notifications to generative AI. We design, manufacture, and service the products and solutions that keep the world connected. With $6.9 billion in revenue, a strong customer base and global reach spanning over 130 countries, we are uniquely positioned to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Thermal) or Business
- 5-10+ years product management experience (data center cooling, HVAC, or liquid cooling preferred)
- Strong technical understanding of liquid-to-liquid and liquid-to-air cooling systems, fluid dynamics, and heat exchangers
- Experience with New Product Development (NPD) processes
- Deep knowledge of loop management (facility vs technology cooling loops)
- Knowledge of coolant quality, filtration requirements, and water chemistry management
- Familiarity with precision control systems for flow, pressure, and temperature
- Proven track record launching complex hardware products to market
- Experience developing multi-year product roadmaps and data-driven business cases
- Hands-on experience or deep technical familiarity with Liquid Cooling CDUs and secondary loop (TCS) management
- Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills (engineering, sales, channel partners)
Vertiv Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vertiv and has not been reviewed or approved by Vertiv.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
Vertiv Insights
What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications 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 extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
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