Expert Product Owner

Requisition ID # 155271 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Summary

 

The IT Data, Analytics, & Insights organization is an enterprise team that is responsible for working collaboratively across various lines of business (e.g., Gas Operations, Electric Operations, Safety, Energy Procurement, etc.) and is focused on unlocking the value of PG&E’s data to support the company’s Wildfire Safety Program and True North Strategy. As part of that focus, we focus on delivering data and AI/ML centric products to support these initiatives. Some of the products that are being delivered include Remote Inspections, AI Enabled Inspections, Vegetation Management through LiDAR capabilities, Transmission Line Asset Master, Electric Distribution Asset Master, Asset Risk Modeling, and a Cloud Native Foundational Platform.

 

Position Summary

 

At PG&E, the Data and Analytics organization is focused on unlocking the value of PG&E’s data to support the company’s most pressing data needs. We deliver data and AI/ML centric products to improve the safety, reliability, and affordability of energy for PG&E’s customers. As a key member of our team, you will play an essential role in the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines, analytic products, which includes data applications, reports, and dashboards. You should be proactive, detail-oriented, and motivated individual who can thrive in a fast-paced environment and help us scale our analytic product development and Operations to meet our clients' ever-evolving needs.

 

A critical part of how we operate is to apply design thinking, DevOps, Agile, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles and methodologies. Through these principles, we work as cross functional teams to help deliver and support valued data products to our business partners.

 

The role is hybrid working primarily from your remote office and the Oakland General Office, in-person, 1-2x monthly for collaboration or as business needs require.

 

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:        $128,000  

Bay Area Maximum:       $218,000

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Manage Data Analytics Day-to-day Operations and it backlogs
• Develop materials for, and lead presentations to, senior leadership 
• Understand and effectively communicate how individual projects fit into a broad strategic landscape
• Partner with internal clients to advance business processes, based on analytical findings 
• Research and define users’ problem statements, use cases, and functional requirements 
• Development of prioritized project plans, product roadmaps, and resource allocation needs
• Facilitate on-time project completion by codifying roles and responsibilities 
• Identification of project risks, followed by development of contingency plans 
• Solve and document roadblocks the project team faces as part of continuous improvement efforts
• Conduct user testing and product demo sessions as part of an iterative development process
• Craft regular updates to leadership on project status, successes, and learnings
• Promote a continuous improvement mindset by conducting after action retrospectives 
• Work closely with leadership teams to identify ways to collaborate and meet business objectives
• Articulate product goals and mission to key stakeholder teams to assure development of a product meets the business need
• Identify product improvement needs based on customer feedback, measurement and evaluation reports, and internal ideation and gap analysis
• Manage all key stakeholders and oversee development milestones with transparency; appropriately involve necessary stakeholders for sign-off processes involved for each milestone
• Review all product deliverables to assure the offering is complete, meets sp