Vertical Market Leader – Datacenters
Strategic Leadership
- Own and lead the company’s global data center growth strategy with full accountability for outcomes—revenue, margin, and share growth within the vertical.
- Serve as the senior-most data center expert and evangelist internally and externally, particularly focused on high-growth areas such as liquid cooling at the rack and server level.
- Develop and maintain a clear, actionable roadmap for penetrating and expanding our presence in the data center market.
Cross-Functional Coordination & Execution
- Lead cross-functional execution across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and M&A to ensure aligned delivery of the data center strategy.
- Establish KPIs and dashboards to track performance, course-correct quickly, and report progress to executive leadership and investors.
Market Expansion & Ecosystem Development
- Drive expansion into adjacencies—including liquid cooling, monitoring, controls, and beyond—with an eye toward innovation, differentiation, and long-term competitiveness.
- Build relationships with key ecosystem players (OEMs, hyperscalers, integrators, consultants, channel partners) to create partnerships, co-innovation opportunities, and early visibility into market shifts.
- Evaluate and recommend potential M&A or partnership opportunities to accelerate time to market and/or fill portfolio gaps.
Customer-Centric Growth Execution
- Regularly engage with strategic customers and prospects to understand needs, pain points, and trends—converting that into actionable growth plans.
- Ensure customer feedback is integrated into our offerings, go-to-market plans, and product roadmaps.
- Be the executive sponsor for major accounts or breakthrough deals, particularly in the liquid cooling space.
YOU HAVE:
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or similar. MBA or other relevant advanced degree is a plus.
- 10+ years in data center infrastructure, ideally with time spent in liquid cooling, leak detection, thermal management, or related technologies.
- Proven track record of leading business growth through strategic leadership, product or market expansion, and/or ecosystem development.
- Experience in working with or for major players like Vertiv, nVent, Stulz, Schneider Electric, or similar.
- Global business experience preferred.
Skills and Abilities
- Deep industry network and understanding of the data center buyer ecosystem, including hyperscalers, colos, and enterprise segments.
- Proven ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Strategic thinker with an ability to translate vision into executable plans.
- Strong communicator, both up to executive leadership and across technical and commercial functions.
At Chemelex:
We protect places of progress through electric excellence.
Pioneering plants, sprawling data centers, busy transport hubs, and your own home. These are the places that bring progress to the world, and the places that we protect with time-tested technologies, advanced engineering, and a suite of services. Because here, excellence is everything.
Our Dimensions of Excellence reflect the core values of Chemelex. Together, they inspire our decisions and guide our actions – defining excellence in our work for colleagues, customers and communities.
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Experts with empathy
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Explorer mindset
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Example for others
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Exceptional impact
We are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.
Other details
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- Pay Type Salary
- Houston, TX, USA