Principal Product Owner

Requisition ID # 166251 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Electric Engineering team ensure all manners of electric engineering — including electric standards and process safety, electric asset planning, electric risk ownership, electric asset strategy and management, design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning — are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects.

Position Summary

The Product Owner provides a clear vision of the product that will be built. From the vision the Product Owner forms well defined user stories, prioritizes user stories and backlog and provides a clear-time line of the product. Maintains the technical integrity and quality of the features/components the team is responsible for. The Product Owner focuses on the end-user experience, needs and features that drive a roadmap to deliver their vision. Builds and maintains relationships that allow the Product Owner to act as the customer proxy. Uses influence to overcome hierarchal challenges.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.
 
A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $147,000
Bay Area Maximum: $251,000

Job Responsibilities

• Identifies the developmental needs of others, and coaches and mentors others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Identifies the appropriate customer audience, their preferred communication channels, and potential customer response benchmarks.
• Leads complex or major projects with high corporate or functional priority.
• Acts as primary liaison between various departments, Stakeholders, business community, and lines of businesses.
• Develops implementation plans and establish teams to introduce new technology
• Evaluates new products and equipment and keeps abreast of new products and/or equipment available in the market.
• Provides product feedback and customer insight to support product development.
• Partners with products organization to deliver feedback on existing products and introduce potential products for future programs.
• Analyzes work plan and schedules to reallocate resources or reprioritize program work.
• Develops new highly complex products.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Job-related experience, 7 years

Desired:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Experience as Product Owner, Agile environment, 5 years
• Agile Certification