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This is a remote role based in the US with approximately 25% travel. Preferred locations include Raleigh, NC; Beachwood, OH; Moon Township, PA or Menomonee Falls, WI.\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year.\nPlease note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nWhat you’ll do:\nThe Industrial Controls Division (ICD) is undergoing a significant transformation, and product management plays a critical role in translating market opportunities into product strategies that drive profitable growth, strengthen competitive position, and improve customer outcomes. The Product Manager, High-Performance Low Voltage (LV) Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) serves as the business owner for the product family, responsible for defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap, and growth initiatives that drive product family performance.\nThe Product Manager partners across functions to identify growth opportunities, prioritize investments, and improve business results through a deep understanding of customer, market, competitive, and financial dynamics. This role leverages market trends and customer needs to develop and execute differentiated solutions that drive sales growth, profitability, and long-term business value.\nEssential Functions:\n Product Strategy: Develop and execute the product family strategic plan and roadmap aligned with division objectives and market opportunities. Drive Voice of Customer (VoC) and market research activities to identify unmet needs, validate market opportunities, and influence product strategy and investment decisions. Monitor competitive activity, market trends, and emerging technologies to identify risks, opportunities, and product differentiation strategies.\nBusiness Performance: Deliver product family objectives for orders, sales, margin, share, and price realization while maintaining accurate forecasts. Analyze product family performance, including sales, pricing, margin, and costs to identify actions that improve business results. Develop business cases and investment recommendations supporting growth initiatives, product expansion, and new product development.\n Portfolio Management: Develop and execute pricing, positioning, and value proposition strategies to improve competitiveness, profitability, and market share. Lead product lifecycle management, including new product development, product enhancements, launches, rationalization, and obsolescence decisions. Partner across functions (e.g., sales, engineering, finance, operations, etc.) to execute roadmap priorities, remove barriers, and achieve business objectives.\nCommercialization: Lead the development of sales enablement content and training programs that support commercialization and market adoption. Represent the product family with customers, channel partners, field sales, and industry stakeholders to strengthen market position, support commercialization, and drive business growth.\nWhat will make you successful?\nAn ideal candidate is a strategic and analytical product leader who can translate complex market, customer, competitive, and financial insights into actionable business strategies that drive growth and profitability. You effectively balance long-term strategic priorities with day-to-day execution, using data-driven decision making to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and improve business performance. Strong communication and influencing skills enable you to build alignment across cross-functional teams and organizational levels. You are highly customer-focused, leveraging strong relationships and market understanding to uncover unmet needs and deliver practical solutions that create value for customers and the business. We are looking for candidates who are diverse in their backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and who can bring fresh and innovative ideas to our team.\nQualifications:\nRequired (Basic) Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related field from an accredited institution\nMinimum 7 years of commercial experience, including product management, marketing, and/or sales\nMinimum 5 years of product management experience (including responsibility for product strategy, roadmaps, product lifecycle management, and business performance) within the electrical market (including power distribution, motor control, automation markets)\nExperience leading new product development, product launches, and commercialization initiatives in a cross-functional environment\nDemonstrated financial acumen, including forecasting, pricing, margin management, and business case development\nEaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nAdvanced Business or technical degree (e.g., MBA, MS in Engineering, etc.)\nExperience in VFD, industrial automation, motor control, motion control, power electronics, or related industrial markets\nExperience managing global product families and collaborating with international teams\nKnowledge of industrial and OEM markets, applications, and key customer segments\nExperience conducting VoC, market segmentation, and opportunity assessment activities\nPragmatic Institute certification or formal product management training\nAbility to read and interpret electrical drawings, wiring schematics, and specifications\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nThe application window for this position is anticipated to close on 10/23/2026\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\nEaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.\nYou do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.\nTo request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.\nWe know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. 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