Product Manager, Core Infrastructure

Hexion Inc.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexion Inc. in Columbus, OH values bold thinking as it builds Smartech AI's data foundation. You will own the roadmap for real-time data ingestion, streaming pipelines, and storage that connect plant historians, SCADA, and IIoT sources.

Lead Agile delivery with engineering, ensure data quality, security, and OT/IT compliance, and drive uptime and latency targets across live streaming feeds. You will shape scalable, secure infrastructure enabling product teams to build trusted plant data-powered

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for ingesting real-time plant data from historians, SCADA, and IIoT sources into streaming pipelines and storage.
• Drive uptime, throughput, and latency for streaming data; establish observability and incident response for plant-critical feeds.
• 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.

Skills

Technical Depth

Industrial Data

Systems Thinking

Agile Ownership

Data Governance

Collaboration

Job description

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion

Company Overview

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-time ingestion, 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 and application teams build on trustworthy plant data.

Key Responsibilities

Data Ingestion & Pipelines

• 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 streaming data; establish observability and incident response for plant-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 compliance across connected plant environments.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Reliability

• Data-feed / pipeline uptime
• Data latency vs. SLA

Data Quality & Coverage

• Plant sources onboarded
• Data completeness / quality

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, Aff… 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. To be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site and, be at least 18 years of age. Any offer of employment will be conditioned upon successful completion of a drug test and background investigation, as well as authorization for the Company to conduct additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti‑Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies. A prior criminal record is not an automatic bar to employment, and the Company will conduct an individualized assessment and reassessment, consistent with applicable law, prior to making any final employment decision.