IT Product Owner

• Location: Oakland, CA
• Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the end-to-end product vision for the company’s Mobile Application, grounded in customer needs, system realities, and the company’s long-term strategy.
• Set and enforce experience standards that materially raise the company’s bar for consumer experience.
• Make final calls on roadmap prioritization, scope, and investment tradeoffs based on impact to customers, time, cost, and risk.
• Actively define and strengthen how the company understands product leadership, customer digital experience, and product decision-making.
• Partner closely with Customer, IT, and Innovation teams, as well as engineering, design, data, and operations to translate vision into execution. Build and manage relationships with additional support functions including finance, privacy, legal, and cybersecurity as needed.
• Work with and inform the customer-device and grid-edge strategy (e.g., disaggregation, AMI 2.0, and emerging solutions).
• Represent the project with executive stakeholders, regulators as needed, and internal leadership forums.
• Oversee day-to-day work of the development team, including coaching and mentoring others to improve their knowledge or skills.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business, or Computer Science.
• 12 years of experience in building and scaling consumer digital products, including 5 years leading teams in a senior product capacity.
• Experience with Distributed Energy Resources and consumer energy products.
• Proven ability to influence executives and drive alignment without dilution of product integrity, while still obtaining breakthrough outcomes.
• Strong design judgment and demonstrated ability to recognize and demand design excellence.
• Technical fluency sufficient to engage in architectural and feasibility discussions.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in energy, utilities, hardware-software systems, or regulated environments strongly preferred.
• Experience developing first-to-market products.
• Bias toward action, concise, and passionate.
• Removes barriers to products and projects moving forward in an autonomous fashion.
• Able to operate at different levels of abstraction, outcome-focused while understanding and adhering to process where necessary.
• Empathic and curious – has an ability to seek to understand while driving towards shared outcomes.
• Handles multiple projects and stakeholders and pushes for pace with self-directed drive.