Product Manager Principal - Controls

Key Responsibilities

• Own Product Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for Lennox’s thermostat, controls, and zoning product lines, ensuring alignment with Lennox’s broader connected home and system platform strategy.
• Drive MGPP: Develop multi-year product plans that balance innovation, reliability, cost competitiveness, and system integration.
• Enable Connected Services & Customer Experience: Lead the Controls ecosystem experience by shaping how control products interact within the broader Lennox ecosystem.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in product ideation, development, and launch, influencing stakeholders across engineering, marketing, sales, and operations to achieve aligned goals.
• Data-Driven Insights & Analytics: Utilize data and market insights to identify customer needs, anticipate market trends, and make informed decisions, continually refining the customer experience.
• New Product Initiatives (NPI): Oversee the entire NPI lifecycle for products, collaborating closely with R&D, sales, and customer service to ensure successful rollouts.
• Competitive Analysis & Market Understanding: Continuously evaluate competitive offerings, emerging technologies, and market trends across controls, connected home, and HVAC ecosystems.
• Product Performance Optimization: Monitor product performance across revenue, margin, adoption, and customer experience metrics. Identify opportunities to optimize pricing, improve attach rates, manage lifecycle transitions, and strengthen the overall portfolio mix.
• Customer & Dealer Insight: Engage regularly with dealers, technicians, and homeowners to understand real-world product usage and pain points. Translate these insights into product improvements and feature enhancements that improve the Lennox system experience.

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; MBA or similar advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in product management, ideally within connected devices, HVAC systems, IoT products, or consumer electronics.
• Proven success leading complex hardware products that interact with software platforms or connected ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of system-level product strategy, where hardware, software, and services combine to deliver value.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence decisions across engineering, marketing, and commercial organizations.
• Strategic thinker capable of translating market insights and customer needs into differentiated product roadmaps.
• Strong analytical, financial, and communication skills with the ability to present clear recommendations to leadership.

What We Offer

• Compensation: This is a salaried exempt role. The starting salary range for this role and market is between $135,200 - $177,450 annually. Factors that may affect starting salary include geography/market and the skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
• Benefits: Subject to applicable eligibility requirements, the following benefits are offered for this role: tuition reimbursement; medical, dental, and vision insurance; prescription drug coverage; 401(k) retirement plan; short-term disability insurance; 8 weeks paid birthing leave; 2 weeks paid bonding leave; life and long-term disability insurance. Depending on date of hire, and subject to applicable eligibility requirements, new employees in this role also receive up to: 12 days paid time off, 2 paid well-being days, 1 paid volunteer day, 12 paid holidays, and 3 floating holidays per year.