Product Manager, Core Infrastructure

Hexion; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexion is seeking a Product Manager to own the Smartech AI data and compute infrastructure roadmap, ensuring reliable real-time ingestion, streaming pipelines, and storage that connect plant historians, SCADA, and IIoT from sources to Smartech products.

You will partner with platform teams to deliver scalable, secure data foundations, drive backlog toward timely milestones, and shape operator-facing experiences built on live data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software product management / product ownership in Agile/Scrum.
• 2+ years in industrial / manufacturing software with real-time plant data.
• Proven record shipping operator- or operations-facing applications built on live / streaming data.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap for ingesting real-time plant data from historians, SCADA, and IIoT sources.
• Lead delivery with data and infrastructure engineering in Agile/Scrum—owning the backlog, story writing, and sprint planning.
• Ensure data quality, security, and OT/IT compliance across connected plant environments.
• Drive uptime, throughput, and latency for streaming data; establish observability and incident response for plant-critical feeds.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile/Scrum

Backlog management

Story writing

Stakeholder collaboration

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Kubernetes

Job description

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.

This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

We don't follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it.Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

Your Future Starts Here.

If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.

Anything is possible when you imagine everything.

ROLE MISSION

Own the product roadmap for Smartech AI's foundational data and compute infrastructure — the real-timeingestion, streaming pipelines, and storage that connect plant historians, SCADA, and Industrial IoT

sources to every Smartech product. Make the base layer reliable, scalable, and secure so platform andapplication teams build on trustworthy plant data.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the roadmap for ingesting real-time plant data from historians, SCADA, and IIoT sources into streaming pipelines and storage.

Reliability & Scale

• Drive uptime, throughput, and latency for streamingdata; establish observability and incident response forplant-critical feeds.

Execution & Delivery

• Lead delivery with data and infrastructure engineering in Agile/Scrum — owning the backlog, story writing, and sprint planning.

Governance & Security

• Ensure data quality, security, and OT/IT complianceacross connected plant environments.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Reliability

Data Quality & Coverage

• Plant sources onboarded

Delivery

• Sprint commitments met
• Roadmap milestones on time

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Product Management:

• 5+ years in software product management / product ownership, including 2+ years owning a technical or platform product in an Agile/Scrum environment — backlog ownership, story writing, and sprint planning with engineering.

Industrial Software:

• 2+ years in industrial / manufacturing software — Industrial IoT, MES, SCADA / historian, or plant-operations SaaS — with a demonstrated understanding of real-time plant data and operator-facing systems.

Operations-Facing Delivery:

• Proven record shipping operator- or operations-facing applications — dashboards, alerting, visualization, or workflow tools built on live / streaming data.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Technical Depth:Streaming data, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Industrial Data: Historians, SCADA, and Industrial IoT data sources.
• Systems Thinking: Designs for scale, reliability, and cost.
• Agile Ownership: Backlog, stories, and sprint planning with engineering.
• Data Governance: Quality, security, and OT/IT compliance.
• Collaboration: Effective across infrastructure, data, and platform teams.

Other

We are an Equal Opportunity, Affidative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, pregnancy, race, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Nearest Major Market: Columbus
Nearest Secondary Market: Dublin