Strategy Leader, Data Centers

For this U.S.

based position, the expected compensation range is $170,000 - $250,000 per year, which includes base pay and short-term incentive.

Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity available for a Strategy Leader for Data Centers and Critial Applications.

You will work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the "Great Places to Work" and by Glassdoor as the 11th spot on the "Best Place To Work", by Ethisphere as "one of the World's Most Ethical Companies", by Forbes as "America's Best Employers for Diversity", by Equileap as the "World's Top 10 in Gender Equality", and by TIME as the "Most Sustainable Company in the World."

Mission

The Strategy Leader for Data Center & Critical Applications is a catalyst for Power Products' future growth-responsible for defining the strategic direction and innovation roadmap of our critical power, data center, and mission-critical applications portfolio.

This role shapes how we compete and win in a world where uptime, resilience, electrification, and digitalization define customer expectations.

You will bring deep strategic insight, strong cross-functional influence, and a forward-looking perspective to ensure our portfolio anticipates shifts in data center architectures, mission-critical infrastructure needs, regulatory pressures, and emerging technologies such as AI-driven workloads.

Success in this role directly accelerates profitable growth, strengthens our position in critical infrastructure, and elevates our relevance with hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and essential-services customers.

Key Responsibilities

1.

Market & Customer Insight

• Conduct deep market, regulatory, and competitive analyses across the global data center and mission-critical segments.

• Engage directly with hyperscalers, colocation providers, enterprise operators, consulting engineers, and critical-facility stakeholders to understand evolving applications (AI, Edge, hybrid cloud).

• Translate insights into actionable strategies that influence portfolio evolution and commercial priorities.

2.

Portfolio & Innovation Strategy

• Define segment-specific architectures, applications, and differentiated value propositions for data center power distribution, critical protection, digital monitoring, and sustainability solutions.

• Reimagine the innovation roadmap to support emerging needs such as high-density power, redundancy architectures, energy management, sustainability certifications, thermal management interactions, and digital twin applications.

• Drive alignment across offers and platforms to ensure a unified strategy for mission-critical segments.

3.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment

• Partner with Leagues, Engineering, Innovation, Commercial, Segment, and Channel leaders to drive end-to-end alignment across critical applications.

• Mobilize teams across divisions to increase synergy for cross-portfolio initiatives such as data center electrical architectures, integ...