Product Manager, Thermal Management Systems (Data Center Liquid Cooling)

Zohorecruit; Tennessee; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking a Product Manager for Thermal Management Systems focused on data center liquid cooling. Remote work is available with occasional travel; relocation support may be offered for hubs.

The role drives product and system strategy, translating chip, rack, and facility cooling needs into roadmaps and commercialization plans, collaborating across engineering, applications, and sales to bring advanced thermal solutions to market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field required.
• 8+ years of experience across product management, application engineering, commercialization, technical marketing, sales engineering, or related functions.
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical product or system through strategy, roadmap development, commercialization, launch, or market adoption.
• Direct experience with data center cooling products, infrastructure, or thermal systems.
• Strong understanding of direct-to-chip liquid cooling and how chip-level heat moves through the rack and facility to the surrounding environment.
• Knowledge of CDUs, heat exchangers, hydronic systems, controls, chillers, cooling towers, or other heat-rejection technologies.
• Ability to explain design choices and evaluate technical and commercial tradeoffs.
• Experience gathering customer requirements and turning them into product or engineering priorities.
• Strong business judgment with credible technical depth.
• Excellent presentation and stakeholder-influence skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product and system strategy for advanced data center thermal management solutions.
• Translate evolving chip, rack, and facility cooling requirements into product roadmaps and priorities.
• Lead commercialization of integrated systems including direct-to-chip cooling, CDUs, heat exchangers, and controls.
• Gather customer, market, competitive, and industry requirements to identify new system-development opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering and innovation teams to ensure new technologies can be integrated and adopted.
• Develop technical messaging, presentations, product literature, digital content, and sales enablement tools.
• Influence equipment and controls roadmaps by representing system-level customer needs.
• Support launches and ongoing improvements of thermal management offerings.
• Explain system architectures and business value in strategic customer pursuits.
• Deliver technical presentations to customers, sales teams, partners, and industry groups.
• Serve as a product and systems resource for complex application questions and field escalations.
• Monitor developments in semiconductor tech, data center design, and liquid cooling ecosystem.

Skills

Product management

Application engineering

Commercialization

Sales engineering

Technical marketing

Data center cooling

Direct-to-chip cooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

CFD

ANSYS

System modeling

Product selection software

Job description

Product Manager, Thermal Management Systems (Data Center Liquid Cooling)

Davidson, United States | Posted on 10/05/2026

Be Part of a High-Performing Team

Join an established global climate technology organization developing advanced thermal management solutions for rapidly evolving data center and semiconductor environments. The team operates at the intersection of mechanical engineering, product strategy, customer applications, innovation, and commercialization.

This group is helping define how next-generation computing infrastructure manages increasingly dense heat loads. The environment is highly collaborative and technically rigorous, with opportunities to influence system architectures that connect processors, racks, liquid cooling equipment, facility infrastructure, controls, and heat-rejection technologies.

What s In Store for You

• A fully remote position with the opportunity to influence a rapidly growing data center technology portfolio.
  
• Relocation support may be available for candidates interested in joining one of the organization s major engineering or commercial hubs.
  
• The ability to work with product, engineering, innovation, applications, marketing, and sales leaders across the organization.
  
• Opportunities to represent sophisticated thermal solutions in customer meetings and industry forums.
  
• Comprehensive health and wellness programs beginning on the first day of employment.
  
• Retirement contributions, paid time off, parental and volunteer leave, educational assistance, and professional development programs.
  
• Domestic and occasional international travel, typically averaging 15% to 20%.
  

How You Will Make an Impact

• Shape the product and system strategy for advanced data center thermal management solutions.
  
• Translate evolving chip, rack, and facility cooling requirements into product roadmaps and commercial priorities.
  
• Lead the commercialization of integrated systems involving direct-to-chip cooling, CDUs, heat exchangers, controls, chillers, hydronic infrastructure, and heat-rejection equipment.
  
• Gather customer, market, competitive, and industry requirements to identify new system-development opportunities.
  
• Partner with engineering and innovation teams to ensure new technologies can be successfully integrated, positioned, and adopted.
  
• Develop technical messaging, customer presentations, product literature, digital content, training materials, and sales enablement tools.
  
• Influence equipment and controls roadmaps by representing system-level customer needs.
  
• Participate in commercialization reviews and support the launch and ongoing improvement of thermal management offerings.
  
• Support strategic customer pursuits by explaining system architectures, technical tradeoffs, and business value.
  
• Deliver technical presentations to customers, sales teams, partners, and relevant industry organizations.
  
• Serve as a product and systems resource for complex application questions and field escalations.
  
• Monitor developments across semiconductor technology, data center design, thermal standards, competitors, and the broader liquid cooling ecosystem.
  

Requirements

Do You Bring Proven Success in Data Center Thermal Systems and Product Commercialization?

• Bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering or another closely related engineering discipline.
  
• At least eight years of combined experience across product management, application engineering, commercialization, technical marketing, sales engineering, or related functions.
  
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical product or system through strategy, roadmap development, commercialization, launch, or market adoption.
  
• Direct experience with data center cooling products, infrastructure, or thermal systems.
  
• Strong understanding of direct-to-chip liquid cooling and how chip-level heat moves through the rack and facility to the surrounding environment.
  
• Knowledge of CDUs, heat exchangers, hydronic systems, controls, chillers, cooling towers, or other heat-rejection technologies.
  
• Ability to explain why a system was designed a particular way and evaluate technical and commercial tradeoffs.
  
• Experience gathering customer requirements and converting them into product or engineering priorities.
  
• Strong business judgment combined with credible technical depth.
  
• Excellent presentation, written communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
  
• Ability to work independently across engineering, product, sales, applications, marketing, and innovation teams.
  
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.
  
• Experience with absorption cooling, CFD, ANSYS, OCP, ASHRAE, system modeling, product selection software, or technical sales channels is highly valued.