Product Development Manager - Owner Supplied Equipment
Job Overview
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
The Product Development Manager – Owner Supplied Equipment will report to the Senior Product Development Manager based in Tokyo and work closely with the rest of the Customer Design and Innovation team, making your mark in a number of ways:
- Drive the strategic direction for the product development of Owner Supplied Equipment (OSE) in alignment with key business goals
- Examine existing, investigate new and developing technologies and drive product innovation across the company with a particular focus on clean energy technologies and energy storage systems
- Research and explore the addition of new products to the OSE categories and collaborate with the master planning and design teams to future-proof AirTrunk’s product offering, to fulfil customer requirements in a functional and innovative way
Your Day to Day
- Manage and expand a team to deliver critical initiatives & support project delivery efforts
- Manage the processes, reporting and documentation repository related with the technical specification, approval, procurement, commissioning and continuous improvement of the OSE products, ensuring alignment and collaboration with internal teams
- Initiating new product development investigations, organising regular meetings with vendors, visiting sites and manufacturing facilities
- Ensure quality assurance and design checks are undertaken on new products and applications
- Produce vendor briefs to develop designs from feasibility stage through concept, scheme and detailed design stages, ensuring continuity of design
- Engage with customers on their technical solutions as required
Requirements
- Ideally 8+ years' experience within infrastructure, utilities, manufacturing or data centre design and operations, with experience in prefabrication or modular construction
- Experience in the energy generation, distribution and/or storage industries is a plus
- Fluency in Japanese and English (written and spoken) along with strong communication and presentation abilities
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills to explore data and to develop engineering solutions
- Willing to make decisions and be accountable for them
- Ability to drive technical, logistical and economic implications of equipment procurement: CAPEX and OPEX
- Experience in multiple APAC countries would be desirable, the successful candidate is open to understanding new markets and learning local codes and regulations as needed
- Strong cognitive skills and problem solving skills
- Highly driven and motivated
- Willing and able to travel to APAC and other regions as needed (witness testing, training, etc.)