Director of Product Management (Developer Platforms - Brightlayer AI)

Eaton Corporation•Raleigh, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

If you’re excited about building platforms that power the next wave of intelligent infrastructure and want to influence how AI transforms the data center ecosystem, the Director of Product Management, Developer Platforms role will give you the scale, complexity and impact to do it. We’re looking for a bold, technically fluent Director of Product Management, Developer Platforms to shape the future of AI-driven software in the data center and distributed infrastructure space. In this role, you will lead the evolution of our Brightlayer AI developer ecosystem—building analytics capabilities and SDKs that power next-generation applications across modern data centers, edge environments, and hybrid multi-cloud architectures. This is a highly visible role that sits at the intersection of AI innovation, software platforms, and connected hardware. You will shape how developers and customers interact with our ecosystem—unlocking new use cases, accelerating time-to-value, and strengthening our competitive position. This is not a traditional product role. You’ll be at the forefront of where software meets physical infrastructure, enabling developers to unlock intelligence from mission-critical systems through scalable, secure, and high-performance digital platforms.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field; advanced degree or certifications in cloud/data center technologies is a plus.
Minimum of seven (7) years of product management experience, with a focus on SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms in the data center or cloud infrastructure space.
Minimum of seven (7) years of experience working with cross-functional teams in Agile environments
Minimum of five (5) years of experience with developer platforms in the data center or cloud infrastructure space
Minimum of five (5) years of experience with analytics platforms (e.g., Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus) and telemetry pipelines.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience using DevOps tools and practices (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD).

Nice To Haves

advanced degree or certifications in cloud/data center technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

Define the vision for Brightlayer’s developer platform—creating SDKs, APIs, and analytics services that developers rely on to build data-driven applications in complex infrastructure environments
Accelerate developer adoption by delivering world-class, open, and extensible tools aligned with modern open-source and cloud-native practices
Deliver real-time, actionable analytics across data center, on-prem, edge, and multi-cloud systems—turning operational data into intelligence
Partner across engineering, platform architecture, AI/data science, and UX to bring high-performance, production-grade capabilities to life
Engage directly with customers and hyperscale/data center operators, understanding their challenges and ensuring our platform solves real-world problems at scale
Push the boundaries of AI + infrastructure convergence, integrating advanced analytics with connected hardware systems to create differentiated, end-to-end solutions
Define and manage the SDK roadmap aligned with our platform strategy, ensuring seamless integration with APIs, telemetry systems, and orchestration tools to translate platform capabilities into clear business outcomes.
Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to expose platform metrics, logs, and events through SDKs, enabling internal teams and external partner/customer developers to build custom dashboards, alerts, analytics tracking and automation.
Partner with engineering, product management, and customer success teams to prioritize features, resolve technical challenges, and deliver high-impact releases.
Act as the voice of the developer, gathering feedback from enterprise customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to inform product decisions through informed value propositions and use cases.
Work with security and compliance teams to ensure SDKs meet enterprise-grade standards for authentication, authorization, and data handling.
Represent Eaton in open-source projects that are key to the platform, such as OCP sub-committees for RedFish.
Own versioning, release planning, and backward compatibility strategies for SDKs across multiple platforms.
Stay informed on trends in data center automation, observability, and developer tooling to maintain competitive advantage.