Product Manager, Applications & Experience

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. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

About the Role

Own the roadmap for Smartech AI's operator- and operations-facing applications — the dashboards, alerting, visualization, and workflow tools built on live, streaming plant data that help operators and plant teams act in real time. Translate platform capabilities into intuitive products that deliver measurable operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own the roadmap for operator-facing apps; identify high-value plant-operations use cases across sites and workflows.
• Experience & Adoption: Own usability and adoption of operations dashboards, alerting, and workflow tools; drive operator engagement and trust.
• Discovery & Delivery: Lead discovery with operators and plant teams; deliver in Agile/Scrum — owning the backlog, story writing, and sprint planning.
• Operations Partnership: Partner with plant operations and go-to-market on rollout, onboarding, and expansion across sites.

Key Performance Indicators

• Operator Outcomes: Faster operator response, measurable efficiency gains
• Engagement: Daily active operators, alerts actioned rate
• Delivery: Pilot-to-GA cycle time, sprint commitments met

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• Product Sense: Usability and workflows for operators under pressure.
• Application PM: Ships operations-facing B2B apps at scale.
• Industrial Domain: Understands plant operations and operator needs.
• Discovery: Skilled in operator / plant-team discovery and validation.
• Agile Ownership: Backlog, stories, and sprint planning with engineering.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Aligns engineering, design, and operations.