Innovation and Engineering Strategy Manager, Submer
Cooling & automation for data centers
Open for applications
Cooling & automation for data centers
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create sustainable, efficient, and planet-friendly data centers and other energy-intense environments.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years experience in leading innovation or engineering strategies within a technology-driven environment or consultancy firm
- Ideally coming from an engineering academic background
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to evaluate and implement emerging technologies effectively
- Proven ability to balance creative thinking with pragmatic decision-making in fast-paced environments
- Exceptional leadership and organizational skills, with experience managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A collaborative mindset with a passion for building relationships and driving partnerships
- Fluent level of English
What the job involves
- As the Innovation and Engineering Strategy Lead, you will drive transformative change by aligning our engineering efforts with the company’s innovation agenda
- Your forward-thinking strategies, technical expertise, and bold leadership will inspire teams to challenge the status quo, pioneer new technologies, and solve complex problems
- By fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity, you will ensure that our engineering solutions remain at the cutting edge, delivering meaningful value to both the organization and its customers
- Work with R&D leaders to align innovation projects with company strategy and market demands
- Lead efforts to evaluate emerging technologies and trends to integrate into the R&D pipeline
- Support the evaluation and prioritization of R&D initiatives based on business value, feasibility, and resource availability
- Collaborate with senior leaders to ensure alignment on objectives and communicate progress effectively
- Foster a culture of innovation by mentoring teams and implementing processes that encourage creative problem-solving
- Monitor and report on the progress of innovation and engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and company OKR
- Foster collaboration between R&D, engineering, and other departments (e.g., marketing, sales) to translate innovation into market-ready products
- Drive adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working, ensuring buy-in from teams
Our take
Developments in the AI sector have increased the strain on data centres and chips, generating more heat from their processes than ever before. Cooling methods using air and water are not keeping pace with the amount of energy needed to support AI. Submer is on a mission to build data centres and processing plants that are as sustainable as they are efficient.
Submer’s eco-friendly product for data centres and chip processing is built from a coolant of non-flammable, biodegradable and synthetic liquid that physically acts in the same way as water. The racks for servers are stored and operate from within a smart container which further lessens the heat produced by data centres. Submer’s range of products even allows for the coolant to be reused via a heat exchanger.
It’s an inspired solution for an increasingly pressing problem. Data centres are going nowhere, yet the vital need for greener energy solutions puts pressure on these industries. It’s unsurprising then that Submer has raised considerable funding that is being channelled into the expansion of its product. Server component manufacturers are even beginning to build their products to be compatible with Submer’s, indicating the eagerness with which the industry is welcoming the solution.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$55.5m
SERIES C
Jan 2022
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $109m
Company values
- SUSTAINABLE - Striving to generate a positive impact on our people and the planet, by helping build a world that is diverse, equal, and inclusive of all
- UNIQUE - Bringing together diverse cultures, talents, and skillsets. We are a special team of genuine innovators doing what we love to do best - building a better future.
- BOLD - Being ambitious, curious, creative, results-driven, agile and flexible
- MAKING SENSE - Making informed, meaningful choices with integrity that align with our customers, our values and our hearts
- EMPATHETIC - Focusing on collaborative and transparent problem-solving with our colleagues, partners, customers, for our planet
- RELIABLE - Delivering precise, quality innovation and technology through our commitment to continuous improvement
Company HQ
Rubí, Spain
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Leadership
Patrick Smets
(CEO)Former COO of the company. Was previously an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, CEO at GEM One and worked for Belgian Defence.
Daniel Pope
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Director of Architecture and Integration EMEA at Ingram Micro Cloud and Principal Solution Architect at Odin. Was also Senior Solution Architect at Parallels and was a CEO and CTO at Datahouse Internet.
Pol Valls Soler
(Co-Founder & CFO)Previously CPO at FXStreet, Workshop Professor and Key Account Manager at La Salle Technova Barcelona and was Co-Founder at Joiner.
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