Product Strategist - Emerging Technologies

Vertiv; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv in Westerville, OH seeks a Product Strategist for Emerging Technologies to shape next-gen data center infrastructure. You will bridge market intelligence, customer needs, and engineering to influence the product roadmap and investment decisions.

The role emphasizes identifying market trends, competitive dynamics, and technology advancements to drive long-term growth and cross-functional alignment with business leadership.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in product strategy, product management, or business development in tech organizations.
• Proven 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 engineering.
• Excellent stakeholder management across research, engineering, and commercial teams.
• Experience building business cases and financial models for technology investments.

Responsibilities

• Commercial assessment of research programs for market potential and time-to-market.
• Conduct customer discovery, competitive analysis, and market sizing.
• Align research roadmaps with business strategy and portfolio needs.
• Develop go-to-market strategies including pricing and channels.
• Guide proof-of-concept to address business questions, not just technical ones.
• Identify regulatory requirements and IP considerations impacting timelines.
• Collaborate across business units to avoid duplication and meet market needs.
• Build financial models and TAM/SAM analyses to support investments.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Commercial acumen

Customer empathy

Comfort with ambiguity

Energy efficiency focus

Education

Engineering or science degree

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Product Strategist - Emerging Technologies is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and developing 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. The Product Strategist assesses emerging market trends, competitive dynamics, customer requirements, and technology advancements to support Vertiv’s long-term growth strategy, product roadmap development, and investment decisions.

Job Summary

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Product Strategist - Emerging Technologies is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and developing 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. The Product Strategist assesses emerging market trends, competitive dynamics, customer requirements, and technology advancements to support Vertiv’s long-term growth strategy, product roadmap development, and investment decisions.

This position will be based onsite at our Westerville, OH location.

Responsibilities

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

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

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

• 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

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• High-Performance Culture
• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

VERTIV 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

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s 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. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. 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. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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