Direct Liquid Cooling Infrastructure Product Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Spring, TX

2d • $110,000 - $253,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a technically skilled Product Manager to lead strategy, product definition, and lifecycle management for Compute’s direct liquid-cooling infrastructure portfolio. As AI, accelerated computing, and HPC increase rack power densities beyond traditional air-cooling capabilities, this role will define solutions spanning servers, racks, cooling distribution units (CDUs), cold plates, manifolds, facility water systems, monitoring, and control technologies.

The Product Manager will work cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, operations, sales, services, finance, marketing, and strategic partners to deliver scalable, commercially viable solutions for dense AI and accelerated-computing systems. The role owns product strategy and roadmaps, integrated product development, ecosystem partnerships, go-to-market execution, and business performance throughout the product lifecycle.

The position is hybrid and requires working an average of two days per week from an HPE office. The expected U.S. base salary range is $110,000–$253,000 annually in Texas; variable incentives may also be offered. Actual offers may vary based on location, experience, education, training, and skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically 5+ years of experience in product management, product marketing, systems engineering, or a related role within enterprise infrastructure.
• Demonstrated understanding of data-center cooling and thermal-management technologies, including direct liquid-cooling architectures, cold plates, manifolds, CDUs, facility water loops, secondary cooling loops, and heat exchangers.
• Experience with server, rack, data-center, AI, or other high-density computing infrastructure, including AI/GPU platforms.
• System-level understanding of the relationship among compute, power, thermal management, cooling capacity, and data-center infrastructure, including rack power densities above 50 kW and emerging 100 kW+ AI racks.
• Familiarity with ORV3/Open Rack or similar architectures, relevant standards such as ASHRAE, OCP, Open19, and ORV3, and topics including water chemistry and liquid-cooling distribution.
• Strong analytical, financial, business-planning, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to translate technical requirements into customer and business value.
• Experience managing strategic technology suppliers and ecosystem partners and taking complex infrastructure products from concept through commercial launch.
• Ability to lead through influence and collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, supply chain, sales, services, finance, marketing, and other functions.
• Experience engaging customers, communicating with executive stakeholders, developing technology and ecosystem partnerships, and ensuring interoperability across servers, racks, cooling systems, facility infrastructure, and related data-center components.
• Knowledge of direct-to-chip liquid cooling, facility water systems, CDU architectures, secondary cooling loops, water chemistry, liquid-cooling distribution, monitoring, controls, and leak detection.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree.
• Experience collaborating with accelerator-platform providers such as AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA.
• Knowledge of ORV3/Open Rack, Open19, ASHRAE, OCP, or comparable data-center infrastructure standards.
• Experience with rack power densities exceeding 50 kW and emerging 100 kW-plus AI racks and their thermal-management and facility-infrastructure requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy and multi-generation roadmap for HPE direct liquid-cooling infrastructure, addressing AI, increasing rack power densities, and changing customer and market needs.
• Establish portfolio and product requirements for liquid-cooled servers, racks, CDUs, manifolds, cold plates, controls, monitoring, telemetry, leak detection, serviceability, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Translate customer, competitive, technology, and industry requirements into specifications and lead integrated development of scalable, modular, interoperable solutions across servers, racks, facility cooling systems, and data-center infrastructure.
• Align GPU and CPU power, rack density, facility infrastructure, and cooling capacity for high-density AI and accelerated-computing architectures, including integration with ORV3 and next-generation rack platforms.
• Build and manage partnerships across liquid-cooling technologies, CDUs, cold plates, facility infrastructure, and related subsystems; coordinate with Compute, Data Center Rack & Infrastructure, and Portfolio Planning teams; and participate in relevant industry standards.
• Drive go-to-market execution through product positioning, messaging, pricing, competitive differentiation, sales and marketing enablement, strategic customer engagements, business cases, financial models, and analysis of market adoption and competitive trends.
• Manage portfolio and business performance throughout the lifecycle, including revenue, margin, attach rate, adoption, customer satisfaction, configuration strategy, lifecycle decisions, reuse of building blocks, and standardization across HPE’s server and rack portfolio.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, supply chain, sales, services, finance, marketing, and other functions, leading through influence and communicating with customers and executive stakeholders.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Programs and resources for personal and professional development and career growth.
• Inclusive workplace that values varied backgrounds and individual uniqueness, with flexibility to manage work and personal needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level