About 4IR Solutions
We help industrial companies win by taking on the complexity of managing OT compute infrastructure — the servers, software, and platforms that run modern manufacturing. Small team. Hard problems. Practical solutions. No bureaucracy. No blame. No egos.
Everything we do runs on five core values: Customer Success, Pragmatic, Build Up Others, Own the Outcome, and Fun. If those words mean something to you, you'll fit right in.
The Role
You will own when things get done at 4IR. Think of it as a conductor's role — the score comes from our CTO and Architect, the talent is a team of five to six strong engineers, but you set the tempo, keep every section in sync, and make sure the most important part is always being played. This role has two faces, and you are the single owner of both.
What Success Looks Like
Six to twelve months in, every customer knows when to expect project completion — and trusts that date. 4IR leadership has a clear picture of engineering capacity and can confidently commit the next project. Every engineer knows what to work on next, with requirements defined before they get there. The backlog is clean, current, and actionable. And the team is operating with more intention and less firefighting than when you arrived.
What You'll Own
- Customer project clarity — scope, timeline, and budget for every active deployment project (typically 2–3 simultaneously)
- The forward view — when current projects finish and when we can confidently commit the next one
- Engineering capacity — an honest, visible picture of what the team can take on
- A refined internal backlog — prioritized and requirements-ready the moment capacity frees up
Face 1: Customer Project Manager
- Work with customers and 4IR engineers to clarify scope and estimate effort for infrastructure deployment projects
- Host regular status calls with industrial stakeholders, from plant floor to corporate IT/OT leadership
- Produce visual milestone plans and keep them truthful; manage scope creep deliberately — surfaced, decided, and communicated, never absorbed silently
- Run projects so there are no surprises for customers and no surprises for the team
Face 2: Internal Product Owner
- Translate the CTO and Architect's roadmap into organized epics and well-defined tasks spanning new features, CI/CD pipelines, IaC/GitOps, and security enhancements
- Run a lightweight agile cadence — enough structure for clarity, not so much it creates drag
- Balance the backlog across tech-debt burndown, productivity investments, and new features
- Priority physics: support calls first, customer projects second, backlog third — make sure the queue never goes stale and the next most important thing is always ready to pull
What You Bring
Required: OT/industrial PM credibility — you've sat across from plant managers and controls engineers and they took you seriously. You're the bridge between modern project approaches and industrial customer expectations, able to manage internally with flexibility and adaptability while communicating with customers using traditional delivery planning methods. Strong communication and a systems integrator Project Manager background are table stakes. Must be available for at least 4 hours of overlap with standard U.S. Central Time business hours (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. CT).
At the senior level, add: 7+ years of experience and IT fluency alongside your OT depth — you can hold your own in engineering discussions about cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and IaC, and write requirements engineers respect.
Preferred (each one moves you up the list): SCADA/HMI experience (Ignition is a big one); Kubernetes, Azure, or IaC/GitOps familiarity; MSP or managed services background; commercial awareness of how delivery dynamics affect business outcomes; CSPO or similar certification.
A Few Honest Words
This is a startup. Priorities shift — support calls trump project work, and project work trumps the backlog. Re-planning gracefully is the job, not an interruption to it. What you'll have: real autonomy, teammates who own their work, and a team where it's safe to be honest, learn from mistakes, and get better together.
Where Do You Fit?
We're hiring for this role at two levels, and we mean that genuinely. If you're a Senior Technical PM ready to make a real impact inside a small, fast-moving organization — this is your seat. If you're a strong Technical PM who isn't quite at the senior level yet but has the instincts, the drive, and the right foundation — we want to hear from you too. Growth here is real, the autonomy is real, and the work matters. Tell us where you are, and let's figure out the rest together.
Pay: $88,750.00-$150,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Vision care
Work Location: Remote
