Principal Product Manager - Distributed Energy Resource Management System Go-To-Market

Requisition ID # 162797 

Job Category: Customer Support / Operations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department and Team Overview

In 2022, PG&E articulated its True North Strategy (TNS), a bold, breakthrough vision that charts a course over the next 10 years toward achieving our purpose and climate commitments. The Grid Research Innovation and Development (GRID) department is focused on bringing technologies and solutions that support the implementation of TNS from conception to reality. 

 

The Grid Edge Innovations team within the GRID department is charting the future of the utility and the energy industry by defining how grid edge technologies will interact with the grid to enable a 24/7/365 clean, resilient, and affordable energy system. The team evaluates, demonstrates and deploys emerging technologies, concepts, and processes that PG&E will need to design and operate the resilient energy system of the future and transform the electric grid from the edges inward.  Toward that end, the team works collaboratively with diverse stakeholders across the enterprise to design, build and test product strategies, roadmaps and implementation plans for innovation. The current focus of the Grid Edge Innovation team is to build and advance 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 solution-oriented candidate will lead the strategy and solutions required to scale PG&E’s enterprise Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS).

 

An initial focus of this role will be to deploy solutions to increase customer enrollment and value of PG&E’s current flagship DERMS-enabled program, FlexConnect, while identifying additional solutions that leverage PG&E’s new DERMS capabilities to meet customers’ needs.

 

In addition to the execution focus, the DERMG Go-To-Market 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 customers, cross functional stakeholders in various company divisions and with vendor and industry stakeholders to develop and deploy solutions that scale the impact or PG&E’s DERMS implementation.

 

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. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.   

  

A reasonable salary range is: 

Bay Area Minimum: $140,000       

Bay Area Maximum: $238,000   

 

 

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