Product Manager

Summary

Join Energy Solutions, a growing company focused on market-based programs for energy and water savings, as a full-time Product Manager. You will lead product development and management for areas like Distributed Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency, collaborating with leadership and development teams. Responsibilities include evaluating, developing, and managing products for utility clients, using a stage-gate process, and updating existing products based on market feedback. You will conduct market research, understand client needs, and create business requirements. The role also involves supporting business development, prioritizing product needs, and collaborating with implementation teams. Energy Solutions offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related, STEM, or environmental discipline
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a related role
• Experience partitioning or training in the area of product management including the development and delivery of a long-term product vision
• Demonstrated ability to conduct market research, competitive analysis, and voice of customer outreach
• Direct project management experience including partnership management and program design development
• Intermediate experience with SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, and project management software
• Willingness to work as part of multiple teams and balance parallel workstreams
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision on core product management activities

Responsibilities

• Provide product management leadership for departments including evaluating, developing, scaling, and managing products for utility clients
• Lead product development efforts for new products using a stage-gate development process and producing the key product deliverables for each stage
• Modify and update existing products based on feedback from the market, potential clients, business strategy team and the opportunity pipeline
• Research and understand market drivers, trends, and capabilities necessary to produce a product that solves market needs – i.e., product-market-fit
• Conduct Voice of Customer (Customer Discovery) efforts to better understand overall market state(s), individual client needs, and inform further product development
• Create high-level business requirements for all the features and functionality of the product in close collaboration with the practice area leadership team and the Energy Solutions’ software development team (where needed)
• Support business development efforts to secure Minimum Viable Product (MVP)-driven pilots for new and existing products and work with the marketing team to generate and update product collateral as needed
• Prioritize product development needs, own the product roadmaps and coordinate with stakeholders to drive innovation
• Collaborate with implementation teams to socialize, launch, and test new services to existing and new clients

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in energy or utility field, specifically in the Demand Side management space working on midstream/upstream incentive programs or related fields

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Other pre-tax contribution plans
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Retirement package