Product Strategist - Emerging Technologies

About the role

Identify, evaluate, and develop product and market strategies for next-generation technologies that will shape the future of data center infrastructure. This role serves as a key link between market intelligence, customer needs, technology innovation, product management, engineering, and business leadership. Based onsite at our Westerville, OH location.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate research programs for commercial potential — assessing market demand, technical feasibility, regulatory pathway, and time-to-market.
• Conduct customer discovery interviews, competitive landscape analysis, and market sizing to inform research priorities and investment decisions.
• Work with research teams to align research roadmaps with business strategy, product portfolio needs, and market timing.
• Develop preliminary go-to-market strategies for promising research outcomes, including pricing frameworks, channel strategies, and launch sequencing.
• Guide proof-of-concept development to ensure experiments address business-critical questions (not just technical curiosity).
• Identify regulatory requirements and intellectual property considerations that impact commercialization timelines and investment decisions.
• Work across business units to ensure research initiatives align with broader market needs and avoid duplication of effort.
• Build business cases and financial models to support investment decisions, including TAM/SAM analysis, ROI projections, and risk-adjusted returns.

Requirements

• 8–10 years in product strategy, product management, or business development in technology-driven organizations.
• Demonstrated success in evaluating and commercializing early-stage technology or research.
• Strong market analysis, customer discovery, and competitive intelligence skills.
• Ability to assess technical feasibility at a conceptual level (without needing to do the engineering).
• Excellent stakeholder management — ability to influence without authority across research, engineering, and commercial teams.
• Experience building business cases and financial models for technology investments.

Preferred Competencies

• Strategic Thinking with Commercial Pragmatism
• Commercial Acumen and Business Case Development
• Customer Empathy and Voice of Customer Discovery
• Comfort with Ambiguity in Early-Stage Research
• Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Solutions

Preferred Background

• Background in engineering, science, or technical field (degree or equivalent experience).
• Industry experience in data center infrastructure, thermal management, power systems, or energy efficiency.
• Understanding of regulatory environments relevant to infrastructure technology.
• Experience working with or within R&D organizations.

About Us

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. We solve challenges facing 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.

Core Principles: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, Inclusion.

Strategic Priorities: High-Performance Culture, Customer Focus, Operational Excellence, Innovation, Financial Strength.

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, Promote transparent & open communication.

Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided.