ESS Product Management Director

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Position Title: ESS Product Management Director
Location: Davidson, North Carolina 


About Us

At Ingersoll Rand, our entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset drives our commitment to making life better. We deliver innovative, mission-critical products and services across industrial, energy, medical, and specialty vehicle markets, through 40+ trusted brands engineered to perform in the most demanding environments where uptime is essential. Our people build lifelong customer relationships by delivering proven expertise and measurable gains in productivity and efficiency.

Within Engineered Systems & Services (ESS), our vision is to be the most trusted compressed air and gas solutions partner, delivering unmatched customer value through leading technologies, service, and lifecycle expertise. Our portfolio spans centrifugal, high-pressure, and oil-free rotary solutions.

The Role  

We are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the strategy, direction, and performance of the ESS Oil-Free portfolio across all technologies. 

This leader operates as the single point of ownership for portfolio strategy, taking a technology-agnostic view across centrifugal, oil-free rotary, scroll, and emerging technologies to define and refine where to play and how to win.  

This role sits at the center of the business, connecting market insights, technology trends, and commercial execution to drive long-term growth, competitive differentiation, and lifecycle value creation. This leader will guide roadmap decisions, investment priorities, and portfolio evolution, ensuring alignment with ESS and enterprise objectives.

What you do

•    Own the end-to-end portfolio strategy for ESS oil-free technologies, serving as the single point of accountability for direction, prioritization, and investment decisions.

•    Operate as a technology-agnostic portfolio leader, deliberately optimizing across centrifugal, rotary, scroll, and emerging solutions to deliver the best customer and business outcomes.

•    Define and continuously refine where to play / how to win, including target segments, applications, and differentiated value propositions.

•    Lead multi-year portfolio and technology roadmaps, balancing innovation, lifecycle management, and near-term commercial performance.

•    Leverage market, customer, competitive, and technology trend insights to anticipate shifts and proactively shape the future portfolio.

•    Drive portfolio prioritization and trade-offs across competing growth initiatives, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and capital.

•    Oversee full lifecycle management, including new product introduction, platform optimization, and portfolio rationalization.

•    Ensure rigorous business case development and financial performance, driving revenue growth, margin expansion, and return on investment.

•    Partner cross-functionally with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and services to translate strategy into aligned execution globally.

•    Drive commercial success through product adoption, value-based pricing, and expansion into targeted vertical markets.

•    Maximize lifecycle value creation by aligning product strategy with aftermarket, service, and digital offerings.

•    Lead and influence across a matrixed organization, aligning stakeholders, challenging legacy assumptions, and driving enterprise-level outcomes.

Who You Are
•    A strategic leader who can connect market trends, technology, and business strategy into a clear portfolio direction.

•    A systems thinker who naturally operates across products, technologies, and lifecycle stages.

•    A strong influencer who can align diverse stakeholders around a shared vision without formal authority.

•    A customer-focused innovator with a passion for delivering solutions that create differentiated value.

•    A data-driven decision maker with strong analytical and business acumen.

•    A results-oriented operator who can translate strategy into execution and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

•    10+ years of experience in product management, portfolio leadership, or industrial business leadership roles.

•    Proven track record of driving growth and operational excellence in a complex, matrixed environment.

•    Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

•    Demonstrated success in driving product strategy, roadmap development, and commercialization.

•    Demonstrated ability to lead across multiple technologies or product lines, ideally with exposure to oil-free compressors, or adjacent industrial systems.

•    Strong business and financial acumen, including portfolio investment management, business case development, and ROI optimization.

•    Ability to travel as needed.


What We Offer: 
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offers. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond. 

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.