Job description

Company Enbala Power Networks USA (GGS)

Name Product Manager - EV Focus

Req # 61049

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
As the Product Manager, you will split your time between two products: Concerto Optimize and Concerto Analyze, and will be responsible for developing an innovative, differentiated, and compelling product vision, strategy, and roadmap that delivers solutions to enable a sustainable energy system.
For Concerto Optimize, you will work within a team of Product Managers to represent, develop, and prioritize market and product requirements for grid services such as 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, In this capacity, you will be exposed to various applications of distributed energy resources to facilitate the transition to a more sustainable power system. You will be expected to utilize a data drive approach to understand the market, customer, and industry trends and to build the business case to justify roadmap decisions. You will develop prioritized product roadmaps which optimize scope, available development resources and desired market timing for targeted feature functionality. As Product Manager, 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.
For Concerto Analyze, you will be responsible for the growth of GGS’s Electric Vehicle (EV) product strategy and execution, in which Analyze is the core data analytics engine. This includes EV data analytics as well as Smart Charging solutions, providing utility and end customer experiences and tools that help manage the significant growth of this new demand on the electrical grid. The Analyze product offering will provide users with better tools to monitor, alarm, and take action on distributed energy resources they operate, which will enable more use cases and installed growth of these renewable energy resources on the power grid. The EV space is forecasted to be the fastest growing DER category in the next few years; this is an opportunity to provide product leadership in a very relevant, dynamic, and emerging DER market and application space.
The Product Manager position 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.
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.
Applications being accepted by individuals outside of Denver, CO

Essential Duties and 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
Lead product launch and go-to-market activities on new product offerings
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 2 years’ experience within the electric power grid, utilities, or energy related industries, in technical role(s) responsible for defining and/or implementing analytics related services and solutions.
Data science, Electrical Engineering or related Bachelor of Science degree from four-year college or university, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:
Master of Science degree a plus
Experience with EV and EVSE telematics and vendor ecosystem

Knowledge:
Direct experience in the specification, design and/or implementation of analytics products, data pipelines, data architectures, data models, and analysis tools
Understanding and familiarity with AI and ML fundamentals and the benefits and challenges of incorporating into products and solutions
Basic understanding of interactions and operations of electric power systems
General understanding of cloud-based computing architectures (Lambda, EC2, etc)

Skills:
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

COMPENSATION Generac Grid Services is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role based in Denver, Colorado is $112,243 - $140,277 USD. This compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. This role is eligible for variable compensation including short term incentives that may consist of the following: annual incentive plan, sales incentive plan, sign-on bonus, and equity grants depending on the role and level. This position includes a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans; life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts, accrued paid time off, 8 paid Holidays and 401(k) retirement benefits.

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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