Principal Product Manager

Requisition ID # 154520 

Job Category: Customer Support / Operations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

Help us change the electric utility industry from the inside! Join a small, high-performing team within Pacific Gas & Electric Company that is scaling up integration with distributed energy resources (DERs) to transform the electric grid from the edges inward. PG&E is seeking an experienced energy business professional to join the Grid Innovation team within the larger Utility Partnerships & Innovation (UPI) group.

 

The Grid Innovation team evaluates and demonstrates emerging technologies, concepts, and processes that PG&E will need to design and operate the resilient energy system of the future. Toward that end, the team works collaboratively with diverse stakeholders across the enterprise to design, build, test and operationalize product strategies, roadmaps and implementation plans for innovation. The current focus of the Grid Innovation team is to build and advance policies, products and processes to operationalize Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and grid edge technologies such as solar PV, battery storage, electric vehicles and microgrids. This team is an important bridge between PG&E’s DER policy and strategy and how PG&E will plan for, interconnect and interact with or operate DERs on a day-to-day basis.

 

Position Summary

This execution and operationally-oriented candidate will lead the deployment and ongoing operations of PG&E’s enterprise Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) as well as the development of new operational processes for DER management. In addition to the execution focus, the DERMS Product Manager will also support development PG&E’s overall DER strategy working across a number on internal business units to align the DERMS capabilities and roadmap to PG&E’s overall DER Management vision.

 

A strong applicant will be highly organized and motivated, with a strong track record of success in building consensus and managing many moving parts within matrixed teams. The Product Manager will work closely in collaboration with cross functional stakeholders in various company divisions and with vendor and industry stakeholders to effectively manage PG&E’s DERMS implementation and ongoing operations.  

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. This position is based out of PG&E’s General Office in downtown Oakland, CA. The team has a hybrid work model primarily working remotely with the expectation of working from Oakland office several days per month minimum. In-person activities will focus on synchronous collaboration, affinity building, ideation, or planning activities. Most day-to-day work (individual and collaborative) will be performed remotely. The role may also require occasional travel to PG&E facilities throughout the 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.

 

A reasonable salary range is:

 

Bay Area Minimum: $136,000

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000

And/Or

California Minimum: $129,000

California Maximum: $220,000

 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Lead the deployment of PG&E’s DERMS cloud platform

• Lead the implementation of PG&E’s DERMS cloud platform focused on initial prioritized use cases related to DER visibility and management of grid capacity constraints
• Engage with the project execution stakeholders (e.g IT, cybersecurity, ADMS, vendors) to leverage PG&E’s Lean Operating System framework of Daily/Weekly/Monthly Operation Reviews (ORs) to drive execution
• Define and develop DER control functionality including use cases associated with facilitating cost-effective interconnection of DERs and new load service connections
• Develop the processes and tools to integrate DERMS capabilities into day-to-day utility operations including operational support functions
• Develop a technical framework for operational integration with 3rd party aggregations of DERs
  • Support new DER integration methods (e.g. IEEE 2030.5, OpenADR, OCPP, REST API etc.)
• Drive coordination between PG&E’s DERMS vendor and DER technology vendors to ens