Director of Product Management (Developer Platforms - Brightlayer AI)

What you’ll do:

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.

About the role:

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.

What you will drive:

• 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

What you will bring:

• Platform SDK ownership: 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.
• Analytics enablement: 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.
• Cross‑functional leadership: Partner with engineering, product management, and customer success teams to prioritize features, resolve technical challenges, and deliver high‑impact releases.
• Customer engagement: 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.
• Security & compliance: Work with security and compliance teams to ensure SDKs meet enterprise‑grade standards for authentication, authorization, and data handling.
• Committee leader: Represent Eaton in open‑source projects that are key to the platform, such as OCP sub‑committees for RedFish.
• Lifecycle management: Own versioning, release planning, and backward compatibility strategies for SDKs across multiple platforms.
• Market awareness: Stay informed on trends in data center automation, observability, and developer tooling to maintain competitive advantage.

Qualifications & Additional Information:

• 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).
• This role may be based at our offices in the following locations: Beachwood, OH; Menomonee Falls, WI; Moon Township, PA; Raleigh, NC.
• Relocation will be offered within the hiring country.
• Travel for this position will require up to 25% (domestic and international)
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.