Product Manager, Software Defined Infrastructure, Global

Vantage Data Centers • Denver, CO

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. Product Department The Product team at Vantage defines and stewards our global product platform: the customer outcomes we aim to deliver, the reference designs and standards that make delivery repeatable, and the closed-loop learning that turns each deployment into an upgrade for the next. We do this in partnership with Engineering, Delivery, Operations, Sustainability, Sales, Site Selection, and Business Development, aligning priorities and trade-offs while preserving clear functional ownership for design execution, construction delivery, and site operations. Product’s role is to create clarity, consistency, and leverage at Vantage scale. Position overview Vantage is building a product platform approach for data center delivery: repeatable reference designs, governed variants, and a closed-loop learning system that turns each deployment into an upgrade for the next. The Product Manager, Software Defined Infrastructure owns the software-defined infrastructure capabilities that enable our physical data center products to deploy, commission, operate, and improve at scale. This includes instrumentation, observability, automation, and orchestration applied to mission-critical infrastructure, with a secure digital thread and evidence-driven readiness. This is not an application software product role. It is a systems product role bridging operational technology and information technology, defining how infrastructure behaves, is monitored, is controlled safely, and is evolved through versioned releases across regions and fleets.

Requirements

• 6–10+ years in product management or systems roles spanning software, controls, automation, networking, telemetry, or intelligent infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience applying product thinking to software-enabled physical systems, with strong judgment around safety, reliability, and operability.
• Strong understanding of IT/OT integration patterns and how they behave in real operational environments.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into crisp product requirements, trade-offs, and decision-ready artefacts.
• Experience with data centers, industrial automation, or other mission-critical infrastructure environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in observability and telemetry ecosystems, including instrumentation strategy and alarm quality/actionability.
• Familiarity with orchestration and infrastructure platform patterns, including deployment automation, desired state, rollouts, and versioning discipline.
• Experience with commissioning automation, validation evidence, and operational analytics in industrial environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the capability roadmap for software-defined infrastructure in partnership with the dedicated product teams and the Platform Product Manager, ensuring shared capabilities are reusable and avoid product divergence.
• Define product intent and requirements for instrumentation, observability, automation, and orchestration layers that sit above and within physical infrastructure products.
• Establish a consistent approach to telemetry and observability: what is instrumented, why, how it is standardised, and how signals translate into operational action with high alarm quality.
• Drive product requirements for low-touch provisioning, deterministic commissioning workflows, and automated acceptance evidence where feasible, reducing manual steps and site-specific logic.
• Define expectations for source control, configuration-as-code, release discipline, and version compatibility to support safe fleet operations across regions.
• Work with regional Product Deployment teams to define adoption in live projects, including rollout sequencing, upgrade paths, readiness requirements, and operational acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Security and IT/OT governance to ensure identity, access control, audit logging, and safety boundaries are designed in from the start.

Benefits

• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed