Principal Product Management

About us

National Grid is hiring a Principal Product Strategist for our Digital Solutions team in New York (Syracuse/Brooklyn/Albany/Hicksville Long Island, NY).

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

IT and Digital works in a harmonized partnership with the National Grid group of diverse energy businesses to deliver technology which revolutionizes the way we operate. As we lead the charge towards a carbon-free future, our teams are embracing disruptive changes in our industry by working with Agile methodologies and adopting Digital mindsets to drive efficiency and bring new capabilities for our internal and external customers.
Our work here is critical. National Grid moves energy to millions of homes and businesses in the UK and US and the technology we utilize to complete that task is down to us. The successful applicant for this position will be an integral contributor towards this goal and we will support your professional development as part of our multi-cultural, customer-centric global team.

Job Purpose

The Principal Product Strategist is responsible for supporting the business and operations work stream within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure. They partner closely to execute several activities, such as identifying risky assumptions, building the value case, defining the future-state process vision, executing change management plans, etc. that investment. 

Key Accountabilities

• Lead business capability assessment, design, alignment and roadmapping for product line with cross-functional teams
• Construct business case, including value projections and detailed investment estimate; ensure these are aligned with product definition
• Track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
• Proactively identify riskiest assumptions and support product team in designing and executing experiments to increase confidence in business case assumptions
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints during full product roadmap
• Define future-state operations solution (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation
• Accountable for change mgmt. and product roll-out plan, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
• Implement marketing, sales, business development, user acquisition, and user support strategies
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO)
• Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements

Ability to assess and document current state operations, identify customer/user pain points, and help translate business needs into product requirements
• Ability to design future-state processes and operations that address user frictions, including articulating any changes needed to reach the future-state process
• Ability to design and run experiments to test and refine business assumptions
• Ability to build and refine a product business case, including benefits (financial, non-financial, strategic) and costs
• Knowledge of digital product implementation fundamentals and digital ways of working
• Experience in Agile product or project management
• Ability to execute change management and product roll-out plan, including marketing, communications plan, user acquisition strategy, etc.
• For certain products: Ability to perform data analytics (includes designing and building data dashboards) and communicate meaningful insights from data
• Ability to create and present materials to senior stakeholders from different orgs

Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

Qualifications

•    BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
•    10+ years of product management experience
•    Experience leading complex product teams, delivering in a multi-squad product model
•    Experience using influence without authority in the broader organization to unblock product teams
•    Considered an expert of agile development methodologies and the software development lifecycle
•    A demonstrated