Product Strategy Lead, Expert

We are looking for Product Strategy Lead, Expert - Hybrid for our client in Oakland, CA.

Job Title: Product Strategy Lead, Expert

Job Location: Oakland, CA

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $87hr - $92hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 8+ years of job-related experience in energy, products, strategy, or finance.
• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business, or Computer Science.
• Experience with strategy, business case creation and approval, and management of a portfolio of solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Be the point person who is tracking and managing up on a portfolio of Product initiatives which are in various stages of development.
• Create executive presentations relaying progress and recommendations across the portfolio.
• Engage with the broader organization, growth advocates, and product teams to ensure they are coordinated and supporting the product launches.
• Ensure coordination and cohesion across the Innovation Accelerator product initiatives that leads to a platform approach rather than disparate point solutions.
• Grid Product initiatives to date have been heavily focused on AMI 2.0 innovation; continue to lead the strategy for this work in partnership with the Customer organization.
• Identify from the bottoms up where value in an AMI 2.0 system can be originated and analyze and create the business case for these initiatives.
• Work from a top down to realize a larger grid transformation vision through AMI 2.0 and grid edge computing.
• Bring together the strategy, create analysis and deck content for management, and advocate for the creation of projects/products to realize the value.
• Stand up AMI 2.0 initiatives, bringing together a plan and resources, as needed to support the Grid Edge AMI 2.0 Strategy.
• Form a Grid Edge Consortium between utilities, meter vendors, and device providers establishing the operating structure and driving collective outcomes.
• Become a key stakeholder in the rest of Strategy & Innovation work with a particular focus on customer electrification, load management, and AMI 2.0.
• Work through executive level problem solving or opportunity exploratory requests as they arise.

Nice to Have:

• Experience both inside and outside of the utility industry.
• Experience with Distributed Energy Resources, consumer energy products, or product development.
• Experience leading cross cutting programs or technology deployments, with a focus on emerging/innovative technologies and creating new process & structure for rapid scale-up.
• Chief of staff or management experience.

Skills:

• Strong ability to ideate both linearly and non-linearly.
• Removes barriers to products and projects moving forward in an autonomous fashion.
• Able to operate at different levels of abstraction, outcome focused while understanding and adhering to process where necessary.
• Empathic and curious has an ability to seek to understand while driving towards shared outcomes.
• Handles multiple projects and stakeholders and pushes for pace with self-directed drive.

Education and Experience:

• A strong applicant will be organized and motivated, with a strong track record of success in building consensus and managing many moving parts within matrixed teams.
• Bias toward action, concise, and passionate.