VP Data Center Platforms, Solutions, Strategies

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

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👔 Vice President

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Submer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🔧 Hardware

⚡ Energy

🤝 B2B

Hardware • Energy • B2B

Submer is a provider of connected intelligence for AI infrastructure, specializing in advanced liquid/immersion cooling and modular data-center solutions. They design, build and operate AI-ready environments (from power and land to cloud and edge), manufacture immersion cooling pods (SmartPod EVO/EXO), and offer GPUaaS/AIaaS and modular deployment services. Submer emphasizes energy and water savings, high-density thermal architectures for demanding AI workloads, and sovereign-ready, globally deployable solutions.

📋 Description

• Define and scale Submer’s portfolio of modular and traditional data-center solutions for AI factories • Translate market demand, AI workload requirements, customer needs, and technology trends into differentiated, commercially viable, deployable data-center platforms • Define global product and platform strategy for modular, prefabricated, hybrid, and traditional site-built solutions • Establish portfolio architecture balancing standardized building blocks with customer-specific configurability • Develop solution roadmaps covering AI-ready white space, power systems, cooling plants, liquid cooling, controls, network/IT integration, deployment services, and lifecycle offerings • Identify priority market segments and convert customer, market, regulatory, technology, and competitive inputs into product requirements and investment priorities • Define platform differentiation around deployment speed, capacity density, energy efficiency, water use, resilience, scalability, operability, and lifecycle economics • Lead repeatable reference architectures for AI factories from campus and facility design through modular deployment units and integrated infrastructure systems • Partner with engineering on product requirements, technical specifications, performance thresholds, validation plans, and acceptance criteria • Guide tradeoffs between standardized platforms and bespoke customer designs while protecting manufacturability, margin, delivery certainty, and scalability • Create modularity strategies, solution documentation, design rules, configuration tools, and reference designs • Own pricing architecture, configuration logic, target margins, cost-to-serve assumptions, and value-based positioning • Develop business cases for platform investments, product variants, strategic partnerships, manufacturing capacity, and geographic expansion • Partner with Sales, Finance, and Operations on pricing tools, quote governance, deal reviews, and profitability guardrails • Define lifecycle revenue opportunities including commissioning, operations support, maintenance, retrofit, capacity expansion, spares, warranty, and service agreements • Analyze competitive offerings, customer buying criteria, market pricing, and total-cost-of-ownership models • Support strategic pursuits and executive customer engagements • Partner with Global Delivery, Construction, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality leaders to scale safe, predictable, profitable delivery • Translate product roadmaps into industrialization plans covering make-versus-buy decisions, suppliers, factory capacity, quality controls, and lead-time reduction • Establish delivery-ready standards for design release, procurement, factory acceptance testing, shipping, site integration, commissioning, and handover • Lead post-project reviews and incorporate lessons into future platform releases • Drive product simplification and design-to-cost initiatives • Support regional adaptation for grid conditions, codes, permitting, climate, seismic requirements, water availability, and local-content requirements • Build and lead a global team spanning product management, strategy, solutions architecture, commercial analysis, and platform operations • Establish portfolio governance, stage-gate processes, roadmap reviews, design authority, investment prioritization, and product lifecycle management • Align stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Construction, Finance, Legal, Service, and regional business teams • Present platform strategy, investment recommendations, performance metrics, and business risks to senior leadership and executive customers • Deliver a differentiated and financially attractive AI-factory platform roadmap; increase standardization; improve quote, design, deployment, manufacturing, commissioning, margin, lifecycle revenue, pricing discipline, and AI/liquid-cooling readiness

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, business, or a related technical discipline • Advanced degree or MBA preferred • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in data centers, critical infrastructure, power and cooling systems, modular construction, industrialized products, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, mission-critical facilities, or adjacent sectors • Demonstrated experience bringing complex infrastructure products or solutions from market definition through engineering, commercialization, and global deployment • Strong knowledge of data-center infrastructure, including electrical distribution, backup power, cooling systems, liquid cooling, controls, commissioning, resiliency, and capacity planning • Experience with high-density computing, AI infrastructure, HPC, GPU deployments, or liquid-cooled data-center environments strongly preferred • Proven commercial acumen, including product pricing, cost modeling, margin management, business cases, and portfolio prioritization • Experience leading cross-functional organizations across product, engineering, operations, manufacturing, commercialization, solutions architecture, supply chain, and delivery • Ability to work effectively with executive customers, strategic partners, OEMs, contractors, consultants, and internal senior leaders • Demonstrated success scaling global product portfolios exceeding $100M+ in annual revenue • Willingness to travel internationally as required • Preferred experience with data-center OEMs, colocation providers, hyperscalers, cloud companies, modular infrastructure providers, EPCs, mission-critical engineering firms, or power/cooling equipment manufacturers • Experience with utility power strategy, generation technologies, and energy-storage solutions preferred • Development of prefab or modular systems preferred • Knowledge of EPC, mission-critical construction, and industrialized manufacturing models preferred • Global deployment experience across North America, EMEA, and APAC preferred • Experience with large-scale campus development, utility interconnection, power procurement, on-site generation, energy storage, and sustainability strategy preferred • Familiarity with commercial models such as sale of equipment, turnkey delivery, capacity-as-a-service, build-to-suit, leasing, and lifecycle services preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive compensation package reflecting your expertise and experience • A great work environment characterized by friendliness, international diversity, flexibility, and a hybrid-friendly approach • Exciting career evolution in a fast-growing scale-up with a mission to make a positive impact