VP Data Center Platforms, Solutions and Strategies

SUBMER • Houston, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Submer enables organizations scaling AI to overcome the limits of traditional datacenters across power, compute density and efficiency. We design and deliver scalable, high-density AI datacenter infrastructure built around industry-leading liquid cooling, supporting everything from early AI deployments to full-scale production environments. Acting as a full-stack delivery partner, Submer provides advisory, design, build and IT integration through a single point of accountability, working with a deep ecosystem of technology specialists. This end-to-end approach accelerates time-to-AI while reducing operational cost, complexity and environmental impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, business, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in data centers, critical infrastructure, power and cooling systems, modular construction, industrialized products, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, mission-critical facilities, cloud infrastructure, or industrialized products or adjacent sectors.
• Demonstrated experience bringing complex infrastructure products or solutions from market definition through engineering, commercialization, and global deployment.
• Strong knowledge of data-center infrastructure, including electrical distribution, backup power, cooling systems, liquid cooling, controls, commissioning, resiliency, and capacity planning.
• Experience with high-density computing, AI infrastructure, HPC, GPU deployments, or liquid-cooled data-center environments strongly preferred.
• Proven commercial acumen, including product pricing, cost modeling, margin management, business cases, and portfolio prioritization.
• Experience leading cross-functional organizations across product, engineering, operations, manufacturing, commercialization, solutions architecture, supply chain, and delivery.
• Ability to work effectively with executive customers, strategic partners, OEMs, contractors, consultants, and internal senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success scaling global product portfolios exceeding $100M+ in annual revenue.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

Nice To Haves

• Data-center OEM, colocation provider, hyperscaler, cloud company, modular infrastructure provider, EPC, mission-critical engineering firm, or power/cooling equipment manufacturer, utility power strategy, generation technologies, and energy-storage solutions.
• Development of prefab or modular systems such as integrated power skids, e-houses, modular electrical rooms, containerized data centers, cooling modules, or prefabricated MEP assemblies.
• Knowledge of EPC, mission-critical construction, and industrialized manufacturing models.
• Global deployment experience across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
• Experience with large-scale campus development, utility interconnection, power procurement, on-site generation, energy storage, and sustainability strategy.
• Familiarity with commercial models such as sale of equipment, turnkey delivery, capacity-as-a-service, build-to-suit, leasing, and lifecycle services.

Responsibilities

• Define the global product and platform strategy for AI-factory data centers, including modular, prefabricated, hybrid, and traditional site-built solutions.
• Establish a clear portfolio architecture that balances standardized building blocks with customer-specific configurability.
• Develop solution roadmaps for AI-ready white space, power systems, cooling plants, liquid cooling, controls, network/IT integration, deployment services, and lifecycle offerings.
• Identify priority market segments, including hyperscale’s, cloud, neocloud and GPU-as-a-service providers, sovereign AI, enterprise AI, telecommunications, research/HPC, and edge deployments.
• Convert customer, market, regulatory, technology, and competitive inputs into quantified product requirements and investment priorities.
• Define platform differentiation around deployment speed, capacity density, energy efficiency, water use, resilience, scalability, operability, and lifecycle economics.
• Lead the definition of repeatable reference architectures for AI factories, from campus and facility design through modular deployment units and integrated infrastructure systems.
• Ensure platforms can accommodate evolving compute densities, GPU roadmaps, rack power requirements, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, and other advanced thermal-management approaches.
• Partner with engineering teams to define product requirements, technical specifications, performance thresholds, validation plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Guide the tradeoffs between standardized platforms and bespoke customer designs, protecting manufacturability, margin, delivery certainty, and long-term product scalability.
• Create a modularity strategy that defines what is standardized, configurable, factory-built, site-assembled, or custom-engineered.
• Establish solution documentation, design rules, configuration tools, and reference designs that enable consistent sales, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and deployment execution.
• Own the commercial framework for data-center platforms, including pricing architecture, configuration logic, target margins, cost-to-serve assumptions, and value-based positioning.
• Develop business cases for new platform investments, product variants, strategic partnerships, manufacturing capacity, and geographic expansion.
• Partner with Sales, Finance, and Operations to create pricing tools, quote governance, deal-review processes, and profitability guardrails.
• Define lifecycle revenue opportunities, including commissioning, operations support, maintenance, retrofit, capacity expansion, spares, warranty, and service agreements.
• Analyze competitive offerings, customer buying criteria, market pricing, and total-cost-of-ownership models to strengthen the company’s commercial position.
• Support strategic pursuits and executive customer engagements by articulating the business and technical value of the company’s platforms.
• Partner with Global Delivery, Construction, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality leaders to ensure products can be delivered safely, predictably, and profitably at scale.
• Translate product roadmaps into industrialization plans, including make-versus-buy decisions, supplier strategies, factory capacity, quality controls, and lead-time reduction initiatives.
• Establish delivery-ready standards for design release, procurement, factory acceptance testing, shipping, site integration, commissioning, and customer handover.
• Lead cross-functional post-project reviews to identify recurring cost, schedule, quality, and customer-experience issues and incorporate lessons into future platform releases.
• Drive product simplification and design-to-cost initiatives that improve speed, margin, quality, and global scalability.
• Support regional adaptation of platforms for grid conditions, codes, permitting, climate, seismic requirements, water availability, and local-content requirements.
• Build and lead a high-performing global team spanning product management, strategy, solutions architecture, commercial analysis, and platform operations.
• Establish portfolio governance, stage-gate processes, roadmap reviews, design authority, investment prioritization, and product lifecycle management disciplines.
• Align stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Construction, Finance, Legal, Service, and regional business teams.
• Present platform strategy, investment recommendations, performance metrics, and business risks to senior leadership and executive customers.
• Foster a culture that balances customer responsiveness with platform discipline, operational rigor, commercial accountability, and speed of execution.

Benefits

• Attractive compensation package reflecting your expertise and experience.
• A great work environment characterized by friendliness, international diversity, flexibility, and a hybrid-friendly approach.
• You´ll be part of a fast-growing scale-up with a mission to make a positive impact, offering an exciting career evolution.

What This Job Offers

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