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# Product Manager, AI Platforms at Proconex

- **Company:** Proconex
- **Location:** Royersford Pennsylvania, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/proconex/jobs/6142926004

## Job description

Proconex is the exclusive [Emerson Impact Partner](https://www.proconexdirect.com/getmedia/0d6e7f34-2397-4d62-bb73-3cda6e3c6a43/BROCHURE_Emerson-Impact-Partners-Network.pdf) for Emerson Automation Solutions in the Mid-Atlantic region. We provide a full portfolio of Process Automation Control Systems, Valves and Control Devices, and related technologies and services to a range of customers—in the Life Sciences, Chemical, Power, Refining, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Paper, Metals, and other industries, as well as commercial enterprises and campus facilities. With three strategically located offices, Proconex maintains a deep dedication to its 200+ employees, a sharp focus on safety and quality, and the drive to deliver.

Job Overview

The Product Manager, AI Platforms is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and advancing product strategy across Linque's industrial intelligence ecosystem, including AIME, Mobius, VisionAI, AI-enabled verification, AI-Ops/Agentic AI, and related platform capabilities. This individual will serve as the primary Product Owner for VisionAI and a strategic leader across the broader platform portfolio, translating customer needs, market insights, competitive intelligence, and business priorities into product roadmaps, requirements, release plans, and commercialization strategies.

Working closely with engineering, AI platform leadership, quality, sales, business development, and customer-facing teams, the Product Manager will drive VisionAI market readiness, productization efforts, customer adoption, and long-term platform growth. Success in this role requires strong customer empathy, commercial judgment, strategic communication skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. This role brings a structured approach to problem solving, balances customer needs with technical feasibility and business value, and exists in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve and rapid iteration are required.

## Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy, Roadmap & Governance

- Own and maintain the product roadmap across the AIME/Mobius ecosystem and related platform capabilities, balancing long-term platform direction with near-term commercial priorities.
- Translate business strategy, customer requirements, and market needs into product themes, epics, user stories, release priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Establish product governance processes for roadmap decisions, prioritization, release planning, and cross-functional alignment.
- Define boundaries between platform capabilities, configurable features, customer-specific development, and service offerings.
- Align product investments with recurring revenue growth, customer adoption, implementation scalability, and long-term competitive positioning.

Voice of Customer, Market Intelligence & Competitive Positioning

- Serve as the primary owner of customer, prospect, pilot, sales, support, implementation, and partner feedback.
- Monitor industry trends, customer buying behaviors, competitive offerings, technology advancements, and emerging opportunities across industrial software, VisionAI, AI-enabled verification, and connected operations.
- Translate customer and commercial feedback into actionable product priorities, roadmap decisions, packaging considerations, and market opportunities.
- Maintain a strong understanding of customer personas, use cases, buying criteria, value propositions, and operational pain points.
- Develop and maintain competitive intelligence that informs product strategy, differentiation, commercialization, and positioning.

VisionAI Product Development & Market Readiness

- Lead initiatives to define, validate, and scale VisionAI product offerings, converting customer pilots and emerging opportunities into repeatable, commercially viable solutions.
- Define VisionAI requirements, MVP scope, roadmap priorities, release readiness criteria, and commercialization milestones.
- Support productization of applications such as foam detection, visual inspection, AI-enabled verification, and industrial quality monitoring.
- Partner with engineering, AI platform, quality, and commercial teams to ensure VisionAI offerings are scalable, supportable, and aligned with customer requirements.
- Position VisionAI as both a standalone solution and an integrated capability within the broader AIME/Mobius ecosystem.

Cross-Functional Product Execution

- Partner with software, AI platform, and engineering leaders to align product strategy with technical architecture, platform capabilities, engineering capacity, and delivery sequencing.
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, requirements clarification, and acceptance criteria definition to ensure successful execution against roadmap priorities.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, Quality, and Operations teams to ensure products can be effectively sold, implemented, supported, and scaled.
- Facilitate tradeoff decisions balancing customer requests, revenue opportunities, scalability, technical debt, quality and compliance requirements, and long-term product strategy.
- Communicate roadmap priorities, product decisions, risks, dependencies, and release expectations across stakeholders.

Product Commercialization & Sales Enablement

- Develop product positioning, buyer personas, use cases, value propositions, messaging, and market narratives for AIME, Mobius, VisionAI, and related offerings.
- Support customer discovery, demonstrations, pilots, proof-of-concept initiatives, proposal development, and strategic sales pursuits.
- Create product briefs, release notes, enablement materials, launch plans, pricing inputs, product packaging concepts, and customer-facing collateral.
- Ensure product packaging and commercialization strategies consider implementation complexity, support readiness, scalability, and customer adoption requirements.
- Represent Linque's product organization in customer meetings, partner engagements, industry events, and internal strategic planning activities.

## Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Product Management, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, software product ownership, industrial software, AI-enabled products, automation technology, manufacturing technology, or related technical-commercial roles.
- 2+ years of experience translating customer needs, market insights, and technical constraints into product roadmaps, requirements, release plans, and commercialization priorities.
- 2+ years of experience collaborating with software engineering, AI/ML, data, platform, hardware, automation, or industrial technology teams.
- 2+ years of experience with product roadmapping, prioritization, backlog management, and agile product execution.
- 2+ years of experience gathering and synthesizing Voice of Customer feedback, market intelligence, and competitive insights.
- 2+ years of experience supporting product launches, commercialization efforts, sales enablement activities, customer discovery, or go-to-market initiatives.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Product Management, or a related discipline.
- Experience supporting software products within industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, utilities, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other mission-critical environments.
- Life sciences, GMP-regulated, validation-oriented, or quality-focused manufacturing experience.
- Experience with VisionAI, machine vision, computer vision, AI-enabled verification, applied AI, or industrial AI solutions.
- Experience with hardware-enabled software, edge deployments, industrial cameras, sensors, automation systems, or connected plant-floor technologies.
- Experience supporting cloud, on-premises, and edge deployment models.
- Experience developing competitive intelligence, product packaging, pricing strategies, commercialization frameworks, and sales enablement programs.
- Proven track record of building strong relationships across technical and commercial teams while effectively representing products in customer-facing and executive-level environments.

We are proud to be an employee-owned organization. Through our ESOP, every team member shares in the growth and success of the company, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and long-term rewards.

Proconex offers a standout culture, fantastic work environment, and has very competitive benefits to include premium medical, 401K match, tuition reimbursement, and other unique incentives.

When receiving e-mails from a Proconex or Valspec recruiter, you will only receive e-mails from addresses ending in @proconexdirect.com, @proconex.net or @valspec.net.  Any other domains are impersonations and should be ignored.

Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States without company sponsorship.  Also, we are not interested in working on a corp-to-corp basis with other companies at this time.

Any third-party unsolicited resume submission(s) will immediately become the property of Proconex. Proconex will not pay any fee to a submitting employment agency, person, or entity unless a signed agreement is established.

Proconex is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected class. We are committed to providing a professional environment free of any discrimination or harassment, and we are proud to be a Drug-Free Workplace.

## About Proconex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Proconex is a full-service industrial automation and process control solutions provider, serving as the exclusive Emerson Impact Partner for the Mid-Atlantic region.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Exton, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Founded**: 1948
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Industrial automation, process control systems, valve and control device distribution, lifecycle services, and engineering integration.
- **Target Customers**: B2B, primarily serving critical industries including chemical, data center, food and beverage, life sciences, metal and glass, oil and gas, power and energy, pulp and paper, refining and upgrading, and water/wastewater.
- **Mission or Purpose Statement**: Helping customers achieve safer, smarter, and more profitable operations through deep expertise and a safety-first culture [proconexdirect.com](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/).

## Products & Services
- **Automation & Control Systems**: Design, programming, and commissioning of advanced DCS/PLC platforms; system integration for continuous, batch, and safety automation.
- **Valves & Control Devices**: Stock, delivery, and field repair of control, isolation, and safety relief valves from any manufacturer.
- **Lifecycle Services**: Factory-certified service, calibration, repair, and optimization of control valves and devices; asset reliability solutions.
- **Application Engineering**: Custom engineering to optimize manufacturing processes using new and existing technologies.
- **Digital Solutions**: SCADA systems, wireless networks, asset management, and enterprise data integration.
- **Family of Companies**: Includes Atlantic Valve Services, Valspec, Valpro, and Linque, extending reach into specialized valve, validation, and industrial software expertise [proconexdirect.com](https://www.proconexdirect.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Estimated $200 million enterprise; revenue has grown 162% under current CFO leadership [proconexdirect.com](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/leadership/).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Emerson Electric (exclusive Impact Partner for Mid-Atlantic region); serves a broad portfolio of brands for valves, actuators, regulators, and process instrumentation.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew from 70 to 400+ employees under President John Otte's leadership.
  - Customer orders effectively doubled during the same period.
  - Recognized as a Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace in 2025.
  - Expanded service execution capabilities, created Valpro, and established the AVS Joint Venture.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Exclusive Emerson Partnership**: As an Emerson Impact Partner, Proconex provides access to world-class automation technologies and a broad spectrum of Emerson products, combined with in-house engineering and custom support programs.
- **Deep Regional Expertise**: Three strategically located offices covering Eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and northern Virginia, with a 300+ strong team and a safety-first culture.
- **Comprehensive Service Portfolio**: Full integration of automation, valves, lifecycle services, and digital solutions—offering a single-source solution for complex industrial needs.
- **Long-Standing Reputation**: Founded in 1948, with over 75 years of industry experience and deep relationships across critical industries.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current Priorities**: Expanding service execution capabilities, developing specialized subsidiaries (Valpro, AVS), and aligning with Emerson's digital transformation initiatives.
- **Growth Direction**: Continuing to scale headcount and revenue while maintaining a safety-first, customer-centric culture; investing in business analytics and enterprise system upgrades (IFS).
- **Innovation**: Focus on advanced digital solutions, SCADA systems, and wireless networks to help customers achieve smarter, more profitable operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture Highlights**: Recognized as a Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace in 2025; emphasizes collaboration, integrity, customer focus, and a "fun follows results" atmosphere [proconexdirect.com](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/careers/).
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Not explicitly stated; roles likely require on-site presence for field service, engineering, and project management positions, with potential for office-based work at three regional locations.
- **Notable Perks**: Premium medical, 401(k) with company match, profit sharing, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, life insurance, and other unique incentives [proconexdirect.com](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/careers/).
- **Engineering Culture**: Immediate hands-on experience with Emerson technologies and third-party solutions; clear career path from entry-level engineer to senior technical or leadership tracks within a few years.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a professional environment free of discrimination or harassment; Drug-Free Workplace.

## Sources
1. [proconexdirect.com - About Us](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/)
2. [proconexdirect.com - Careers](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/careers/)
3. [proconexdirect.com - Homepage](https://www.proconexdirect.com/)
4. [greenhouse.io - Jobs at Proconex](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/proconex)
5. [proconexdirect.com - Leadership](https://www.proconexdirect.com/about-us/leadership/)

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