Sr Manager, Digital Product Management, Embedded Systems

Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting‑edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share.

We continue to lead because of our world‑class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit  or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

We are seeking a Sr Manager, Digital Product Management, Embedded Systems to serve as a business and product leader across embedded controls, edge devices, connectivity, and software‑enabled refrigeration solutions. You will own the business case, lead market strategy, and drive the end‑to‑end delivery of edge‑device and connectivity capabilities that are central to Carrier's multi‑year growth agenda.

You will report to the Global Product Leader for Edge Devices & Connectivity and work closely with engineering, segment GMs, sales, commercial leadership, service, and the PMO across CST business units. This position offers a flexible hybrid schedule with travel as needed to support customers, engineering teams, and global business stakeholders.

• Business case & P&L:
  Develop business cases for embedded systems, edge devices, and connected product capabilities from investment rationale through post‑launch revenue, margin, lifecycle value, and adoption performance.
• Control systems modernization strategy:
  Help define the multi‑year roadmap for embedded control architecture modernization, including platform consolidation, modular software standards, lifecycle rationalization, backward compatibility, and end‑of‑life migration planning.
• Unified platform leadership:
  Own product requirements for next‑generation controller and edge‑device platforms, ensuring architecture decisions support feature reuse, scalable deployment, regional requirements, and long‑term maintainability.
• Firmware lifecycle & OTA ownership:
  Define product requirements for device management, version governance, release readiness, and over‑the‑air update capabilities across relevant product lines and connected installed bases.
• Market strategy:
  Lead segment strategy and growth planning, market segmentation, competitive positioning, pricing discipline, and value proposition definition across hardware, firmware, connectivity, and software‑enabled offerings.
• NPI leadership:
  Drive NPI execution with clear stage‑gate discipline, launch readiness, cross‑functional coordination, customer validation, and commercialization ownership from concept through field deployment.

• Strong business case ownership with clear P&L orientation; able to build, defend, and manage investment cases rather than simply administer product backlogs.
• Ability to define and drive strategy and growth planning; sets market and platform direction while making clear recommendations in ambiguous environments.
• Embedded systems product credibility; understands how controller software, firmware, connectivity, protocols, and hardware‑dependent software are built, released, deployed, and maintained in the field.
• Platform modernization leadership; able to translate fragmented legacy architectures into practical roadmaps for consolidation, modularization, backward compatibility, and phased migration.
• Proven track record in NPI execution and end‑to‑end delivery in hardware, connected product, or industrial software environments.
• Cross‑functional influence; able to align engineering, service, commercial, and senior leadership around roadmaps, tradeoffs, funding decisions, and launch readiness.

• Strategic planning and value management, including pricing discipline, investment prioritization, and roadmap tradeoff management.
• Customer relationship management with a strong external commercial orientation and the ability to translate…