Sr Manager, Digital Product Management, Embedded Systems

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Carrier Global Corporation global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control air quality and transportation we improve lives empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902 we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information visit or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

About This Role

We are seeking a Sr Manager Digital Product Management Embedded Systems to serve as a business and product leader across embedded controls edge devices connectivity and software-enabled refrigeration solutions. You will own the business case lead market strategy and drive the end-to-end delivery of edge-device and connectivity capabilities that are central to Carriers multi-year growth agenda.

You will report to the Global Product Leader for Edge Devices & Connectivity and work closely with engineering segment GMs sales commercial leadership service and the PMO across CST business units. This position offers a flexible hybrid schedule with travel as needed to support customers engineering teams and global business stakeholders.

Job Description

• Business case & P&L: Develop business cases for embedded systems edge devices and connected product capabilities from investment rationale through post-launch revenue margin lifecycle value and adoption performance.

• Control systems modernization strategy: Help define the multi-year roadmap for embedded control architecture modernization including platform consolidation modular software standards lifecycle rationalization backward compatibility and end-of-life migration planning.

• Unified platform leadership: Own product requirements for next-generation controller and edge-device platforms ensuring architecture decisions support feature reuse scalable deployment regional requirements and long-term maintainability.

• Firmware lifecycle & OTA ownership: Define product requirements for device management version governance release readiness and over-the-air update capabilities across relevant product lines and connected installed bases.

• Market strategy: Lead segment strategy and growth planning market segmentation competitive positioning pricing discipline and value proposition definition across hardware firmware connectivity and software-enabled offerings.

• NPI leadership: Drive NPI execution with clear stage-gate discipline launch readiness cross-functional coordination customer validation and commercialization ownership from concept through field deployment.
  

Competencies:

• Strong business case ownership with clear P&L orientation; able to build defend and manage investment cases rather than simply administer product backlogs.

• Ability to define and drive strategy and growth planning; sets market and platform direction while making clear recommendations in ambiguous environments.

• Embedded systems product credibility; understands how controller software firmware connectivity protocols and hardware-dependent software are built released deployed and maintained in the field.

• Platform modernization leadership; able to translate fragmented legacy architectures into practical roadmaps for consolidation modularization backward compatibility and phased migration.

• Proven track record in NPI execution and end-to-end delivery in hardware connected product or industrial software environments.

• Cross-functional influence; able to align engineering service commercial and senior leadership around roadmaps tradeoffs funding decisions and launch readiness.
  

Skills:

• Strategic planning and value management including pricing discipline investment prioritization and roadmap tradeoff management.

• Customer relationship management with a strong external commercial orientation and the ability to translate customer needs into product requirements.

• Product and services management across hardware firmware embedded software connectivity-adjacent software diagnostics and service enablement.

• Domain fluency in edge devices IoT gateways embedded controllers telematics connected hardware platforms or industrial equipment software.

• Working knowledge of firmware release governance modular software design and field deployment constraints.

• Familiarity with communication protocols and middleware concepts relevant to connected industrial products such as CAN J1939 MQTT APIs or equivalent standards.

• Understanding of OTA update architectures including firmware-over-the-air and software-over-the-air delivery release readiness and field update reliability.

• Strong analytical capability structured use of VOC data-driven insights market analysis and installed-base intelligence.

• Strategic thinking in ambiguous or evolving environments to make clear recommendations not just options.
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Business or Computer Science

• 8 years of product management experience with demonstrated ownership of complex software-for-hardware embedded systems or connected product portfolios.

• 5 years of hands-on product management experience owning a roadmap defining requirements building business cases and driving products from concept through delivery in a B2B or industrial context.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time both domestically and internationally.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Engineering Business Computer Science or a related technical field; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.

• Experience leading platform modernization including embedded software consolidation controller architecture transitions lifecycle rationalization or migration planning across multiple product generations.

• Background in transport refrigeration commercial trailer fleet management cold chain HVAC industrial equipment or adjacent hardware-software domains.

• Experience with connected product platforms telematics IoT-enabled embedded systems remote monitoring ecosystems or digital-service integration.

• Familiarity with OTA update architectures firmware lifecycle governance diagnostic tooling field service toolchains or release reliability improvement.

• Familiarity with product planning processes such as FGPP MGPP stage-gate or equivalent portfolio governance frameworks.

Pay Range

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Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits including:

• Health Care Benefits: Medical Dental Vision; Wellness incentives

• Retirement Benefits

• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days up to 15 days; paid sick days up to 5 days; paid personal leave up to 5 days; paid holidays up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation

• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability

• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment

• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account

• Tuition Assistance

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