VP, Tech & Innovation

Trane Technologies plc; Davidson (NC); Presencial; USD 240 000 - 308 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Health insurance

401K match

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Resumo da oferta

Trane Technologies is seeking a Vice President of Technology & Innovation to lead the enterprise's technology and innovation agenda. The role will shape a practical engine for AI adoption, rapid experimentation, and scalable platform reuse across the organization.

The leader will balance near-term productivity with long-term capabilities, engage senior leadership on multi-year visions, and ensure secure, trusted data products while driving value realization and disciplined governance.

Qualificações

• Experience defining and communicating an enterprise technology & innovation strategy.
• Ability to translate trends into focused opportunities for the business.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to scale new capabilities.

Responsabilidades

• Define and communicate an enterprise technology and innovation strategy aligned to priorities.
• Identify AI, automation, analytics opportunities to improve productivity.
• Build scalable platforms for AI, analytics, and emerging tech.
• Establish governance and value realization across initiatives.
• Enable cross-functional partnerships and communities of practice.
• Foster leadership and a culture of disciplined experimentation and responsible risk-taking.

Conhecimentos

Technology strategy

Leadership

AI adoption

Data platforms

Stakeholder partnership

Cloud architectures

Ferramentas

APIs

ERP

Security controls

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world. Learn about our benefits designed for you to Thrive at work and at home. We boldly go. Where is the work: Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

Job summary

The Vice President, Technology & Innovation will lead the company’s technology and innovation agenda, helping the enterprise use technology to improve personal productivity, create new capabilities, and solve important business problems. This leader will establish a practical innovation engine that combines technology scouting, rapid experimentation, platform and data-product enablement, AI adoption, and disciplined value realization. The VP will help the organization move beyond isolated pilots by creating reusable capabilities and clear pathways for scaling what works. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable discussing a multi-year technology vision with senior leaders, working with users to understand a workflow, evaluating an emerging technology, shaping a proof of concept, and establishing the operating mechanisms required to scale a trusted capability.

Key responsibilities

Technology and innovation strategy

Define and communicate an enterprise technology and innovation strategy aligned to business priorities and employee needs. Translate technology trends, emerging capabilities, and external signals into a focused portfolio of opportunities. Establish clear investment choices, stage gates, decision rights, and portfolio review mechanisms. Balance near-term productivity opportunities with longer-term capabilities that can differentiate the enterprise.

AI, digital, and productivity enablement

Identify and prioritize opportunities where AI, automation, analytics, and digital tools can improve employee productivity and decision quality. Make approved capabilities easy to discover, access, use, and support. Partner with functions and business units to embed technology into real workflows rather than treating adoption as a post-launch activity. Support responsible experimentation and practical AI literacy across the enterprise.

Platform, data, and reusable capability building

Build and scale secure, reliable, and reusable platforms for AI, analytics, automation, and emerging technology. Establish reference architectures, reusable components, APIs, data products, and patterns that reduce duplication and technical fragmentation. Partner with data governance and domain owners to ensure data products are trusted, documented, governed, and sustainable. Integrate new capabilities appropriately with enterprise applications, ERP, connected products, edge environments, and other technology foundations.

Rapid experimentation and incubation

Establish a technology radar and a disciplined pipeline for evaluating emerging technologies, startups, research, and ecosystem opportunities. Lead proofs of value, proofs of technology, and proofs of concept that test user value, technical feasibility, risk, economics, and scalability. Create a safe experimentation environment with proportionate controls that do not impose production-level friction on low-risk exploration. Use clear criteria to pivot, stop, transition, or scale experiments. Ensure every material experiment has a problem statement, business or functional sponsor, value hypothesis, owner, and next-step decision.

Enablement and stakeholder partnership

Enable functions, business units, analytics, product, technology, and other teams through shared platforms, reusable patterns, communities of practice, and targeted expertise. Build strong partnerships across IT and the business while maintaining clear accountability for decisions and outcomes. Establish mechanisms that allow local innovation within enterprise standards and guardrails. Create an ecosystem of internal talent, external partners, universities, startups, and technology providers that expands the organization’s capacity to learn and deliver.

Governance, trust, and value realization

Embed security, privacy, architecture, data quality, responsible AI, compliance, and cost management into the capability lifecycle. Partner with data governance to clarify ownership, quality expectations, metadata, access, lineage, and lifecycle requirements for data products. Establish adoption, usage, benefit, and risk measures before scaling material capabilities. Review whether expected benefits are realized and redirect resources when they are not. Communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, and value clearly to executive leadership.

Leadership and culture

Build and lead a high-performing team with the skills to scout, design, prototype, productize, and scale technology-enabled capabilities. Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, learning, accountability, and responsible risk-taking. Develop leaders and practitioners through communities of practice, coaching, and exposure to real business problems. Model collaboration, transparency, inclusion, and disciplined follow-through.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range: $240,000.00 - $308,000.00 Compensation Type: Salary Incentive Eligible: Yes Sales Commission Eligible: No Disclaimer: We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!
• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• Paid time off includes up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
• 401K match up, educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary by site as well as Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations

Safety Sensitive Role: No The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening. We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs.

We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.

At Trane Technologies, we’re climate innovators with the courage to look at our world’s challenges and see endless opportunities. We aren’t afraid to make bold commitments that set new standards to enhance the health and well-being of our employees, customers, communities, and the planet we share. Learn more about what we do & how we do it.

Joining the Trane Technologies team is more than just a job – it’s the beginning of a career full of purpose, impact, and meaningful contributions that challenge what’s possible for a more sustainable future. Together, we know we can change the world. With an inclusive culture, benefits to support you and your family, limitless opportunities to grow, flexibility to help you balance life’s demands, and more – you’ll be supported to thrive at work and at home. Learn more about building a career with us.

At Trane Technologies, we believe in providing equal access and opportunity for all. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to our candidates and employees who may need assistance with application or recruitment processes due to disability or impairment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at: [e-mail]