Product Manager - Data Center (Remote)

Airtech Vacuum; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 109,800 - 164,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) retirement savings with company

PTO

Job summary

Airtech in the United States is seeking a Product Manager for Data Center Connected Growth to own the growth lane beyond existing products. You will identify opportunities to leverage broader IDEX products and collaborate with Sales, Engineering, and Operations to commercialize them.

The role requires 5+ years in product management or related roles, with preference for data center infrastructure expertise, M&A experience, and strong cross-functional skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, marketing, finance, or a related field.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred but not required.
• 5+ years in product management, business development, strategy, or related roles.
• Experience in data center infrastructure, liquid cooling, thermal management, or engineered systems preferred.
• Experience supporting M&A strategy or capability analysis preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the connected-growth product strategy for US Valve’s data center business.
• Identify opportunities where broader IDEX products, technologies, or capabilities can support data center cooling applications.
• Build strong working relationships with other IDEX business units to understand products and fit.
• Partner with Sales and Business Development to understand customer needs and market opportunities.
• Translate customer and market needs into product, portfolio, and commercialization opportunities.
• Build business cases for connected-growth opportunities including market need, revenue, margin, investment, risks, and execution.
• Partner with Finance to validate revenue, margin, cost, pricing, and payback assumptions.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to ensure feasibility.
• Support commercialization planning including positioning, messaging, sales tools, launch plans, and trade shows.
• Help determine build/sourcing/partner/M&A approach.
• Support M&A strategy by identifying gaps and adjacencies.
• Maintain a clear pipeline of opportunities with status and risks.
• Prioritize opportunities using market size, customer pull, margin, fit, speed, and complexity.
• Partner with current Product Manager to align with roadmap.
• Support customer meetings, trade shows, and cross-business discussions.
• Bring structure and follow-up to ideas.

Skills

Product management

Business development

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Market analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, marketing, finance, or related field

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses (https://www.idexcorp.com/our-businesses/business-segments/) around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

US Valve is growing quickly in the data center market. As the business grows, we need to do more than sell the products US Valve already makes. We need to identify where broader IDEX capabilities can help us win more of the data center cooling opportunity.

The Product Manager – Data Center Connected Growth will own the growth lane beyond US Valve-made products. This person will identify, evaluate, and help commercialize opportunities where US Valve can bring broader IDEX products, technologies, capabilities, or partnerships into the data center market.

This person will work closely with Sales, Business Development, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and other IDEX business units. They will help build business cases, define customer problems, evaluate product fit, support commercialization plans, and help determine where US Valve may need new products, technologies, partnerships, or acquisition targets to strengthen its position in data center cooling.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the connected-growth product strategy for US Valve’s data center business.
• Identify opportunities where broader IDEX products, technologies, or capabilities can support data center cooling applications.
• Build strong working relationships with other IDEX business units to understand their products, capabilities, limitations, and commercial fit.
• Partner with Sales and Business Development to understand customer needs, application gaps, and market opportunities.
• Translate customer and market needs into clear product, portfolio, and commercialization opportunities.
• Build business cases for connected-growth opportunities, including market need, customer value, revenue potential, margin expectations, investment needs, risks, and execution requirements.
• Partner with Finance to validate assumptions around revenue, margin, cost, pricing, investment, and payback.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to understand whether connected-growth opportunities are technically and operationally realistic.
• Support commercialization planning for connected-growth products, including positioning, customer messaging, sales tools, launch plans, and trade show support.
• Help determine which opportunities should be built by US Valve, sourced through another IDEX business, partnered externally, or considered as a future M&A capability gap.
• Support M&A strategy by helping identify product gaps, technology adjacencies, market needs, and potential capability areas that could strengthen US Valve’s position in data center cooling.
• Maintain a clear pipeline of connected-growth opportunities, including status, next steps, owners, risks, and expected business impact.
• Help prioritize connected-growth opportunities using market size, customer pull, margin potential, strategic fit, speed to market, and execution complexity.
• Partner with the current Product Manager to ensure connected-growth opportunities fit with the broader US Valve product roadmap and do not create confusion with US Valve-made products.
• Support customer meetings, trade shows, and IDEX cross-business discussions where connected-growth opportunities are being developed.
• Bring structure, clarity, and follow-up to ideas that might otherwise stay informal or get lost between business units.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong commercial judgment and ability to evaluate market size, customer need, value proposition, pricing, margin, and strategic fit.
• Able to translate customer problems into product or capability requirements.
• Comfortable working across functions, including Sales, Business Development, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Product Management.
• Able to influence without direct authority across internal teams and other business units.
• Strong financial and business acumen, including revenue, margin, pricing, investment, ROI, and payback thinking.
• Able to create clear, practical commercialization plans.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex opportunities for leadership and cross-functional teams.

Education And/Or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, marketing, finance, or a related field.
• MBA or advanced business/technical degree preferred but not required.
• 5+ years of product management, business development, strategy, commercial, or technical market.
• Experience in data center infrastructure, liquid cooling, thermal management, fluid control, valves, pumps, filtration, industrial components, or engineered systems preferred
• Experience supporting M&A strategy, market mapping, capability gap analysis, or strategic adjacency work preferred

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing duties of the job, employee is required to move around and be still; use hands to handle objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee will occasionally lift up to 35 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Office and shop floor working environment. Noise level is minimal with intervals of spikes. Required to wear safety glasses and utilize safety equipment while present on the shop floor. Occasional travel to customer or distributor locations for support or training may be required.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

Total Rewards

The compensation range for this position is $109,800.00 - $164,600.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.

Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefits-and-rewards/

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer

IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

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Job Family:

Marketing

Business Unit:

Airtech