Product Manager II - Controls at Aaon in Parkville, MO

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Job Description: The Product Manager II - Controls supports the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management of connected controls, embedded systems, cloud-enabled platforms, and digital services for AAON’s HVAC product portfolio. Working with customers and cross-functional partners, this role gathers market input, develops requirements, supports business cases, and coordinates product initiatives from discovery through launch and ongoing improvement. The position requires practical knowledge of HVAC controls and connected products, sound product judgment, and the ability to translate customer and business needs into well-defined solutions. The Product Manager II - Controls works with product leadership and cross-functional teams to plan, prioritize, and execute product initiatives for controls, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. This role manages defined products, features, or workstreams and supports product vision, customer requirements, business cases, release priorities, and stakeholder 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. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to: Maintain assigned portions of the product roadmap in partnership with product leadership and controls engineering. Gather and translate customer, contractor, service, sales, and internal stakeholder needs into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and recommended priorities. Coordinate cross-functional work with controls engineering, embedded software, cloud software, hardware, cybersecurity, UX, manufacturing, service, marketing, and sales teams. Research customer problems, competitive offerings, and market trends related to connected HVAC systems, remote monitoring, diagnostics, analytics, predictive maintenance, and energy optimization. Develop requirements for device onboarding, provisioning, connectivity, telemetry, alarms, dashboards, APIs, user roles, data access, reliability, and support workflows. Partner with engineering teams to address security, interoperability, manufacturability, serviceability, and platform considerations for assigned products and features. Monitor emerging technologies, customer adoption trends, regulatory developments, cybersecurity expectations, and industry standards relevant to connected HVAC solutions. Support commercialization activities, including product positioning, pricing analysis, launch readiness, sales enablement, training content, and customer communications. Track and report product metrics such as adoption, activation, uptime, feature usage, customer satisfaction, service impact, revenue contribution, and profitability. Education and Experience Requirements: Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, product management, business, or a related technical field; an engineering degree is preferred. Requires relevant product management, product ownership, engineering, technical marketing, or related experience, preferably in HVAC, building automation, industrial controls, IoT, enterprise software, SaaS, cloud platforms, or connected-device environments. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Practical 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 translate customer needs and technical constraints into clear requirements, priorities, and measurable outcomes. Experience supporting products through discovery, business case development, roadmap planning, development, launch, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement. Sound commercial judgment and the ability to contribute to market assessments, competitive positioning, p