Senior Product Manager, Data Center Applications
About the role
The Senior Product Manager, Data Center Applications defines and executes Fluke’s datacenter growth strategy across critical infrastructure monitoring, electrical systems, network infrastructure, environmental monitoring, leak detection, power quality, battery monitoring, and software‑enabled workflow solutions. The role develops and commercializes solutions that improve reliability, uptime, efficiency, and operational visibility for enterprise, colocation, and hyperscale datacenter environments. The ideal candidate combines deep datacenter operations expertise with strong product management skills, a customer‑centric mindset, and strategic business acumen, serving as a key voice of the customer to drive sustainable growth and market leadership.
Primary Responsibilities
- Define strategy and execution plans for the datacenter portfolio across electrical, network, environmental, leak detection, power quality, battery, and software solutions.
- Own product lifecycle performance from concept through commercialization, growth, sustainment, and end‑of‑life, meeting revenue, margin, market share, and recurring revenue targets.
- Develop and execute a global product vision and roadmap aligned with market trends and customer workflows in enterprise, colocation, and hyperscale environments.
- Drive new product development in close collaboration with Engineering, Commercial, Operations, Marketing, and Strategic Partner teams.
- Develop deep understanding of customer workflows spanning facilities, operations, reliability, maintenance, commissioning, and network teams.
- Conduct Voice of Customer (VOC) research to identify unmet needs, market trends, and emerging technology opportunities.
- Identify opportunities in critical power infrastructure, battery monitoring, network validation, fiber testing, environmental monitoring, leak detection, thermal management, DCIM, and asset performance management.
- Establish business models, pricing strategies, service offerings, and lifecycle policies that maximize long‑term business performance.
- Partner directly with strategic datacenter customers to co‑develop solutions addressing operational reliability, efficiency, and uptime challenges.
- Support business development, technology partnerships, ecosystem development, and M&A activities related to the datacenter market.
- Serve as an internal and external thought leader on datacenter technologies, customer requirements, market trends, and competitive dynamics.
- Present product strategy, market insights, portfolio performance, and growth plans to executive leadership.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (required); Master’s Degree or MBA (preferred).
- 10+ years of product management, product marketing, engineering, or related leadership experience.
- Minimum 5 years supporting datacenter, cloud infrastructure, critical facilities, or enterprise network markets.
- Deep understanding of datacenter electrical infrastructure (UPS, generators, switchgear, transformers, PDUs, battery systems, grounding, energy monitoring, power quality).
- Strong knowledge of datacenter network infrastructure (structured cabling, fiber optics, copper connectivity, physical‑layer testing, certification, troubleshooting, deployment architectures).
- Understanding of environmental monitoring, leak detection, thermal management, asset monitoring, DCIM, and operational reliability workflows.
- Experience working with enterprise, colocation, cloud, telecommunications, or hyperscale datacenter operators.
- Customer‑obsessed with proven experience conducting interviews, field research, VOC programs, and workflow analysis.
- Strategic thinking ability to translate market intelligence into actionable product and growth strategies.
- Proven ability to lead and influence cross‑functional organizations in matrix environments.
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
- Results‑oriented with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Electrical Engineering degree with practical experience in datacenter critical infrastructure.
- Experience with electrical test equipment, network test equipment, monitoring platforms, or reliability software solutions.
- Familiarity with Uptime Institute, TIA‑942, BICSI, IEEE, ASHRAE, and related datacenter standards.
- Experience managing portfolios that include hardware, software, services, and recurring‑revenue business models.
- Experience supporting M&A evaluations, partnership development, and adjacent market expansion initiatives.
Pay
Salary range (local currency): 114,100.00 – 190,500.00. This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.