Product Manager

Summary

Join GoodLeap, a technology company revolutionizing sustainable solutions financing, as a mission-driven Product Manager. You will spearhead the automation of critical operational workflows for our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform, transforming manual tasks into seamless automated processes. This role demands a strong understanding of energy systems, VPP operations, and data-rich environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, data, and operations, to build efficient tools and systems. The position offers a competitive salary and potential bonus, focusing on maximizing VPP performance and ensuring accurate reporting. GoodLeap is committed to innovation and offers a collaborative work culture.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of product management experience, ideally in energy, grid operations, DER aggregation, SaaS platforms, or other data-rich environments
• Technical understanding of distributed energy systems, including inverters, battery storage, and smart thermostats
• Hands-on experience with VPP operations, demand response, and DER technologies like solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, and load controls
• Familiarity with energy markets, including wholesale and ancillary services, and exposure to policy, compliance, or standards development
• Strong systems thinker and workflow optimizer, skilled at mapping complex processes and simplifying them through automation and smart tooling
• Experience managing operational workflows, building standard operating procedures (SOPs), and developing internal tools or dashboards to support scale
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, equally comfortable with engineers, analysts, operators, and cross-functional partners
• Working knowledge of ISO/RTO rules, telemetry requirements, and participation models for DERs and VPPs
• Degree in engineering, energy systems, or a technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and drive the roadmap for VPP operational automation and platform capabilities
• Identify and automate manual workflows tied to enrollments, dispatch planning, real-time monitoring, and post-event reporting
• Coordinate and execute day-of operations for VPP events across ISO/RTO markets (e.g., CAISO, ISO-NE, ERCOT, PJM)
• Monitor real-time performance during events and escalate operational issues or anomalies
• Build tooling to help our operations run events more efficiently, at greater scale, and effectiveness
• Track and improve key KPIs like dispatch success rate, participation, DER utilization, operational turnaround time, and reporting efficiency

Benefits

• $138,000 - $160,000 a year
• In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus