Product Manager III

Job Description:

The Controls Product Manager is responsible for helping to define the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for connected controls, embedded systems, cloud-enabled platforms, and digital services that support AAON’s HVAC product portfolio. This role serves to increase collaboration with customers, controls engineering, product engineering, sales, service, and operations. The position requires strong technical fluency in HVAC controls, connected devices, data-driven services, cloud platforms, and customer-facing digital experiences, along with the business judgment to translate market needs into scalable product solutions.

The Controls Product Manager collaborates with all departments in the planning, prioritization, and execution of product strategies for controls, IoT, and cloud-based solutions that advance AAON’s connected equipment capabilities and long-term digital product direction. This role owns product vision, business cases, customer requirements, release priorities, and cross-functional alignment for solutions that may include equipment controls, supervisory control systems, edge devices, connectivity, telemetry, remote monitoring, analytics, mobile or web applications, and cloud services.

• Develop and manage the product roadmap with controls engineering.
• Translate customer, contractor, service, sales, and internal stakeholder needs into clear product requirements, business cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
• Guide cross-functional collaboration with controls engineering, embedded software, cloud software, hardware, cybersecurity, UX, manufacturing, service, marketing, and sales teams.
• Identify market opportunities for connected HVAC systems, remote monitoring, diagnostics, analytics, predictive maintenance, energy optimization, and lifecycle service offerings.
• Define requirements for device onboarding, provisioning, connectivity, telemetry, alarms, dashboards, APIs, user roles, data access, reliability, scalability, and support workflows.
• Partner with controls engineering team to ensure controls and cloud solutions are designed for security, interoperability, manufacturability, serviceability, and long-term platform growth.
• Evaluate competitive offerings, emerging technologies, customer adoption trends, regulatory developments, cybersecurity expectations, and industry standards relevant to connected HVAC solutions.
• Guide commercialization planning, including product positioning, pricing input, launch readiness, sales enablement, training content, and customer communication.
• Define and monitor key product metrics such as adoption, activation, uptime, feature usage, customer satisfaction, service impact, revenue contribution, and product profitability.

Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, product management, business, or a related technical field; engineering degree preferred. Advanced degree or MBA preferred. Requires significant product management experience, preferably in HVAC, building automation, industrial controls, IoT, enterprise software, SaaS, cloud platforms, or connected-device environments.

• Strong understanding of HVAC systems, controls architectures, building automation concepts, equipment communication, and connected-device ecosystems.
• Working knowledge of IoT platforms, cloud services, edge devices, telemetry, APIs, data analytics, dashboards, mobile or web applications, and SaaS business models.
• Ability to convert complex customer needs and technical constraints into clear product strategy, requirements, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience guiding products through discovery, business case development, roadmap planning, development, launch, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
• Strong commercial judgment, including the ability to assess market opportunity, competitive positioning, pricing inputs, adoption barriers, and profitability drivers.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, data privacy, reliability, scalability, interoperability, and support…