Product Manager, Signal Plants

ABOUT THE POSITION:

The Product Manager, Signal - Mobile Equipment owns the product strategy and roadmap for the Signal platform as it serves Astec's mobile equipment customers across both the Infrastructure Solutions and Materials Solutions segments — paving, milling, and material transfer; crushing, screening, washing, and aggregate processing; and forestry and recycling equipment. This role is responsible for understanding how equipment operators, crews, fleet owners, and service teams work;

identifying the digital capabilities that drive measurable equipment uptime, productivity, throughput, and cost outcomes; and translating those needs into a prioritized Signal roadmap. The Product Manager partners closely with the mobile equipment engineering and machine-controls product teams across the Infrastructure Solutions and Materials Solutions product lines to ensure Signal integrates cleanly into the machine control stack and delivers a coherent, competitive digital experience for mobile equipment customers.

• Own the Signal Mobile Equipment product roadmap and ensure it advances measurable customer outcomes (equipment uptime, productivity, mat quality, fuel and idle efficiency, parts and service responsiveness, subscription growth)
• Drive Signal adoption across the installed base of Astec mobile equipment — paving, milling, and material transfer; crushing, screening, and washing; and forestry and recycling — including migration of legacy machine telematics customers onto Signal
• Establish Signal as the default digital experience on every new equipment delivery, including default data transmission at machine commissioning
• Partner with the mobile equipment engineering and machine-controls product teams across the Infrastructure Solutions and Materials Solutions segments as the primary integration partners, to ensure Signal integrates cleanly with machine controls and the broader Astec Digital portfolio
• Achieve budgeted Signal Mobile Equipment revenue, subscription, and renewal targets through new product development, platform enhancements, and commercial enablement
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of how equipment operators, crew foremen, fleet owners, and service teams use Signal day-to-day, and what drives their satisfaction, retention, and expansion
• Identify trends (technological, regulatory, customer expectations) shaping the digital experience for mobile equipment customers, including AI, operator assist and autonomy, production and throughput monitoring, intelligent compaction and thermal mapping, predictive maintenance, and data-sharing requirements
• Conduct regular job site visits and customer field research; build a portfolio of alpha and beta customers to validate features before scaling
• Gather, analyze, and interpret market data including competitor offerings, pricing, and installed base positioning
• Conduct installed base assessments to track Signal coverage, legacy-to-Signal migration progress, and the retrofit opportunity across the full mobile equipment fleet (paving, milling, material transfer, crushing, screening, washing, forestry, and recycling)
• Translate strategy into detailed product requirements and a prioritized Signal Mobile Equipment roadmap
• Lead Agile product development ceremonies (sprint planning, refinement, demo, retrospective) for the Mobile Equipment workstream and report Mobile Equipment-segment metrics and progress
• Engage stakeholder groups across product, engineering, design, commercial, and field teams to gather input, validate priorities, and drive cross-functional alignment on the Mobile Equipment roadmap
• Drive development initiatives that close Signal capability gaps relative to legacy and competitor offerings, particularly…