ESS Product Management Director

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Position Title: ESS Product Management Director

Location: Davidson, NC

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.

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. The 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.

• 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.

• 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…