Remote MES Product Owner for Industrial Automation

Vertech; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedule

Bonus plan

Competitive compensation

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Vertech seeks a Product Owner to lead MES/Industrial Software solutions for national clients. You will align product backlogs with customer needs, define roadmaps, and ensure clear requirements for development teams in a remote US setting.

Ideal candidates bring 7–10+ years in MES/SCADA, strong Agile/Scrum experience, and the ability to translate customer objectives into actionable plans while collaborating closely with clients and internal teams.

Qualifications

• BS in computer science, math, electrical, mechanical, chemical or related engineering field or relevant experience.
• 7-10+ years of experience developing MES, high level enterprise SCADA systems, or similar, preferably in a project based industry.
• Strong understanding of agile development methodology and how to run a project in Scrum format.
• Experience in a Product Owner role or similar capacity, with strong ability to work directly with customers to scope projects, define long term roadmaps, and proactively identify risks
• Ability to ensure alignment with customer objectives, manage expectations, and drive continuous improvement in the product development lifecycle
• Experience with Ignition platform is a huge plus

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between customers and development teams, ensuring our solutions are aligned with business needs and the team can articulate why they are building something, not just what to build
• Set product goals that provide vision and clarity, are achievable by the team, and provide value to customers
• Maintain multiple refined product backlogs that provide sufficient and selectable user stories to ensure developers are able to create sprint plans from what's available and meaningfully represent stakeholder needs
• Define project scope and initialization, write clear and actionable requirements, ensure backlog readiness, and facilitate quality checkpoints to ensure sprint readiness and execution
• Support developers with prompt and detailed clarifications from a user perspective, and without pre-supposed technical solutions
• Hold accountability for project quality and delivery

Education

BS in computer science, math, electrical, mechanical, chemical or related engineering field

Job description

Vertech seeks a Product Owner to lead MES/Industrial Software solutions for national clients. You will align product backlogs with customer needs, define roadmaps, and ensure clear requirements for development teams in a remote US setting.

Ideal candidates bring 7–10+ years in MES/SCADA, strong Agile/Scrum experience, and the ability to translate customer objectives into actionable plans while collaborating closely with clients and internal teams.