Product Manager - Industrial Data and AI Platform

About the role

Osol is looking for a Product Manager to own its industrial data and AI platform: what it does, for whom and in what order. The platform gives an industrial business a trusted, vendor-neutral description of its plants, safe to build analytics and AI on. The first release is predictive maintenance of rotating equipment at a process plant, for the plant's reliability engineer. This is a product role, not a project management role: you own the problem, users, priorities and definition of done, while delivery managers own schedule and budget.

Key responsibilities

• Own the product's scope and priorities: decide what goes into each release, in what order and what is deliberately left out, and explain why.
• Spend time with users at the plants: reliability engineers, maintenance planners and heads of maintenance.
• Own the product requirements: each one clear, prioritised and with a failing test, traced to the user need or rule behind it.
• Define each release precisely, including what the plant must supply before go-live (people, figures, plant facts and evidence).
• Define how success is measured, for example how often predictions prove right, and report against them honestly.
• Work with the Solutions Architect on trade-offs between user needs, architecture constraints and cost.
• Work with the techno-functional consultant to turn plant processes, maintenance workflows, work orders and condition monitoring into buildable specifications.
• Own the product backlog and accept completed work against its requirements.
• Keep the product's safety and trust rules intact under delivery pressure: the platform never writes to plant systems, and AI never acts without a named person's approval.
• Maintain the product roadmap from the first plant to further plants and industries, and later to customers outside the group.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline; a business degree with strong technical experience is also considered.
• 10+ years of product development experience, including at least 3 years as product manager or product owner.
• Has owned at least one product, or a major product area, through a full release to real users.
• Experience of research with specialist users such as engineers, operators or other domain experts.
• Strong written and spoken communication with plant, technical and executive audiences.
• Comfort working within a structured governance framework where decisions are recorded and reviewed.

Required skills

• Proven experience as a product manager or product owner for a technical, data or B2B software product.
• Ability to write clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria, and to prioritise with explicit reasoning.
• Working understanding of data platforms, analytics and machine learning, enough to weigh trade-offs with architects and data scientists.
• Hands-on experience with agile product practices and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Experience defining and tracking product outcome measures, not only delivery output.