Product Manager, Principal

Oakland, CA, US, 94612

Requisition ID # 165493 

Job Category: Customer Support / Operations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

 

Position Summary

Aligns customer need, market potential, technology readiness, and regulatory policy to develop and execute business plans that deliver demand-side products to PG&E's customers. Provides product strategy, content, and evaluation by collecting insights into customer need, testing concepts and developing prototypes, defining features and benefits of products, building the solution, articulating a distinct value proposition, testing with customers, managing a continuous improvement cycle to improve efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and versioning or exiting offerings in the product portfolio.

 

Job Responsibilities

  • Articulate product goals and mission to key stakeholder teams to assure development of a product that meets market needs.
  • Manage all key company stakeholders and oversee development milestones with transparency; appropriately involve necessary stakeholders for sign-off processes involved for each milestone.
  • Manage existing behavior change products, development of new products, and sunset of products at the end of their lifecycle.
  • Review all product deliverables to assure the offering is complete, meets specific needs, and includes optimal materials both in the box and on-line to assure customer satisfaction.
  • Support marketing and sales as the subject matter expert, providing content and technology information to our delivery channels.
  • Support regulatory activities by writing testimony, responding to data requests, meeting with regulators and other IOUs, and providing content for regulatory filings.
  • Test product or service offerings in the market (or in simulation).
  • Assess competitive offerings and substitutes through market surveillance and identify the unique, sustainable value of PG&E’s offering.
  • Develop business cases to identify principal technical and commercial levers that drive adoption decisions.
  • Develop policies and procedures for the product.
  • Develop product briefs detailing incentive levels, technology information and verification, service offering and the high-level go-to-market strategy.
  • Develop Request for Proposals (RFPs) and IT estimates for work related to product improvements.
  • Ensure product attribution by developing strategies to evolve calculators and other methods for defining product achievements in the marketplace.
  • Identify and evaluate existing and emerging energy-related technologies and/or products.
  • Identify product improvement needs based on customer research, marketing and sales feedback, measurement and evaluation reports, and internal ideation and gap analysis.
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    Qualifications

    Minimum:

  • Bachelors Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience
  • Desired:

  • Masters Degree or equivalent experience
  • Job-related experience, 10 years
  • Purpose, Virtues and Stands

    Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:

    • Delivering for our hometowns
    • Serving our planet
    • Leading with love

    Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:

    • Trustworthy
    • Empathetic
    • Curious
    • Tenacious
    • Nimble
    • Owners

    Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:

    • Everyone and everything is always safe
    • Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
    • It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
    • Clean and resilient energy for all
    • Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors

    More About Our Company

    EEO
    Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.

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    PG&E will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with all state and local laws.


    Nearest Major Market: San Francisco
    Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland