Job description

Company Enbala Power Networks USA (GGS)

Name Grid Services Software Product Manager - Hybrid Remote!

Req # 61079

Location Denver GS

Employment Type Full Time

Shift 1st

Generac Grid Services (GGS), formerly Enbala Power Networks, is focused on making the world’s power grids greener and more reliable, efficient, and predictable by harnessing the power of distributed energy. Concerto™, GGS’s real-time energy-balancing platform, is transforming energy system operations through its revolutionary, highly flexible approach for creating controllable and dispatchable energy resources. It unobtrusively captures and aggregates available customer loads, energy storage and renewable energy sources to form a network of continuously controlled energy resources. The platform dynamically optimizes and dispatches these resources to respond to the real-time needs of the power system – all without impacting customer operations. For more information, visit www.generacgs.com or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GeneracGS.

WHY JOIN GENERAC GRID SERVICES?

• Competitive salary package, commensurate with your skills and experience
• Highly autonomous role; hybrid friendly
• Enjoy a healthy work/life balance and benefits
• Become a key contributor to GGS’s mission to making the world's power grids greener and more reliable

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Product Manager, Grid Services is a highly visible and technical role within a dynamic, fast-paced, innovative software company with primary offices located in beautiful Denver, CO and Vancouver, BC. The position will report directly to the Director of Product Management within Generac Grid Services.

As the Product Manager, Grid Services, you will be responsible for representing, developing, and prioritizing market and product requirements for utility and energy market segments and their customers, within the Product organization; as well as integration requirements for utilizing various distributed energy resources (DERs) and other related grid systems as part of grid services use cases. Grid services span demand response, virtual power plants (VPP), wholesale market trading, ancillary services, and distribution network optimization use cases typically provided by VPP and/or DERMS (distributed energy resource management systems) enterprise software. As Product Manager, you will develop prioritized product roadmaps which optimize scope, available development resources and desired market timing for targeted feature functionality. You will work closely and collaborate within a team of Product Managers to develop top-level requirements documentation as epics within our agile software development life cycle. The Product Manager will interact closely with the GGS development teams and software architects in defining these requirements to ensure the platform architecture and capabilities meets or exceeds market, partner, and other non-functional requirements, such scalability, performance, and reliability targets.

This role will be measured on business goals associated with on-scope and on-time release of major software releases which deliver new and/or incremental value to market and customers, and on product user experience feedback and scores tied to net promoter score measurements.

This position will include occasional travel, up to 25-30% per month, within North America, Europe or Asia Pacific regions for key customer meetings, tradeshows, or technical conferences.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Gathering, maintaining, and prioritizing market, customer, and partner product requirements into the product vision and roadmap, leading to delivery of world-class grid services and solutions
• Working closely with GGS development team to ensure clear understanding of epic requirements and market context, and related non-functional requirements
• Working directly with agile scrum team product owners to translate epic level requirements into story level detail
• Working directly with technical solution sales team to define and grow market-leading grid services and solutions
• Contributing to integration design specifications between GGS products and 3rd party DER and other grid enterprise systems
• Support product training and operations including product education and communications to internal organizations, and external customers and partners.

Minimal Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years direct experience in product management or demonstrated experience in market and customer requirements gathering, definition, prioritization, and planning. • Minimum 3 years’ experience within the electric power grid, utilities, or energy industries, in technical role(s) responsible for defining and/or implementing grid related services and solutions. • Electrical Engineering or Power Systems-related Bachelor of Science degree from four-year college or university, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:
Master of Science degree highly desired.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Understanding of interactions and common design approaches for electric power systems • Understanding of market constructs enabling wholesale market energy trading, ancillary services, and demand response programs • Exposure to and understanding of common industry standards, e.g. IEEE 2030.5, OpenADR, IEC60870.104 • General understanding of cloud-based computing architectures (Lambda, EC2, etc) • Excellent communication skills, and must be able to easily interact with people in either oral (including semi-formal presentation) or written form • Able to establish and leverage relationships with customers, sales, and development team members and external business partners • Ability to effectively lead and achieve results through collaboration and influence even when there is no explicit reporting relationship • Must be energetic, enthusiastic, and can work both independently and with others, face-to-face and remotely

Understanding of N. America demand response programs

Physical demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting; close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”

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