Technical Product Manager, Principal

Requisition ID # 173646 

Job Category: Customer Support / Operations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Wildfire Risk Organization is responsible for assisting the company to act decisively and transparently to prevent fires of consequence from being caused by our equipment.  The organization will develop objectives to 1) prevent fires of consequence originating from our equipment; 2) meet all commitments outlined in our Wildfire Mitigation Plan; 3) continue to foster trusted relationships with key stakeholders; and 4) develop consistent processes and work standards through the implementation of the Lean Operating System for sustainable operations.

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. Responsible for product strategy, content, and evaluation. This includes 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. The product management role is part of a matrix organization with the product manager as a subject-matter and content expert for the product. 

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 Bay Area of 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.

Bay Minimum: $144,000
Bay Maximum: $244,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

Job Responsibilities

• Possesses unique product management and subject matter (domain) expertise, a thought leader.
• Established relationships with key industry contacts.
• Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Works with senior management to support strategic planning and decision making, i.e., market transformation strategies for product portfolio; portfolio management; roadmap methodology, etc.
• May manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives. 

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Business, Economics, Marketing, Psychology, or related 
• Job-related experience, 10 years

Desired:

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience
• Advanced project management and change management skills
• Experience with ownership of large individual or combined budget.
• Ability to lead and influence strategic planning and decision-making working with senior management at PG&E
• Experience with the end-to-end life cycle of design, development and implementation of Data Science solutions with a focus on Fire Risk modeling.
• Understanding of data science standards and processes (model evaluation, optimization, feature engineering, etc) 
• Relevant industry (natural hazard modeling, electric or gas utility, renewable energy, analytics consulting, etc.) experience