Reports To: Director of Product Management
Position Status: Full-Time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Compensation: $120,000/year
Location: Portland, Maine headquarters, hybrid, or fully remote location within the United States
Position Summary
As Product Owner at HighByte, you will act as the voice of the customer and help drive product development of HighByte Intelligence Hub, a leading solution in the global Industrial DataOps market. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy and development, translating roadmap priorities into well-defined, actionable work for development teams while maintaining a close feedback loop with product management and stakeholders.
You will own the product backlog day-to-day, working alongside development teams on sprint planning, story refinement, and acceptance, while building a working understanding of the industrial environments, Intelligence Hub solutions, and OT/IT integration challenges of our end users. You will be a key voice in discovering product gaps, advocating for customers, and prioritizing product updates based on business value, technical feasibility, and strategic goals.
Essential Functions
- Maintain the product backlog in close partnership with product management and development teams, ensuring stories are well-defined, prioritized, and ready for development
- Collaboratively create, refine, and break down user stories into actionable tasks; review completed work against defined acceptance criteria and business objectives
- Serve as the primary voice of the customer in the product development process—acting as a liaison between product management and the development team, gathering feedback, managing expectations, and balancing competing priorities
- Maintain an understanding of customer needs and market trends to inform decisions on relevance, scope, and usability
- Actively participate in product planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and R&D standups to guide development and track progress
Skills
- Curious and eager to learn new technical concepts, technologies, and customer environments
- Confident presenting technical concepts and uncovering customers' business challenges
- Collaborates effectively across teams and departments to support the delivery of industry-leading product capabilities
- Comfortable making pragmatic prioritization decisions and navigating trade-offs with limited information
- Self-motivated with a natural inclination toward building relationships
- Familiarity with manufacturing and industrial technology—PLC, DCS, SCADA, historians, MES, CMMS/EAM, QMS/LIMS, PLM — is a strong plus
- Familiarity with enterprise technology—ERP, streaming, databases, data lakes, data warehouses, ETL/ELT, messaging, middleware, or cloud services—is a strong plus
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or related field
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Experience working on an enterprise software product with agile development process is a plus
- Exposure to industrial, manufacturing, or operational technology (OT) environments as a practitioner or through customer-facing work is a plus
For more information on the company and team at HighByte, please visit us on The Org.
This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of every responsibility associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position’s activities and requirements, HighByte reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
