Principal Product Manager

4 weeks ago

San Francisco, California, United States Pacific Gas and Electric Company Full time

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 ensure interoperability and integration
  • Acts as primary liaison between various departments, user stakeholders; in particular PG&E's Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) team, IT, Electric Distribution Operations.

Support PG&E's overall DER technical product strategy and roadmap

  • Drive alignment across internal work groups to develop an enterprise DER technology strategy, technology roadmap including integration with existing DER and Load Management programs (e.g. Demand Response)
  • Align the DERMS capability roadmap with company strategic initiatives related to load management, multi-customer microgrids and Electric Vehicle Grid Integration (VGI)
  • Identify and prioritize use cases, required capabilities and application features for DER management across the enterprise
  • Support development of the DERMS application architecture for the future ecosystem of DER Management applications and technologies

Qualifications

Minimum:

  • Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Business, Economics, Engineering, Marketing, Psychology, or related.
  • 10 years of job-related experience

Desired:

  • Master's in Business Administration, Engineering or other Advanced Degree
  • 5 years of electric industry related experience (e.g. utility, DER technology company or developer, etc.)
  • Demonstrated experience in project, product, or program management in the context of utility operations, IT systems or DER product deployment
  • Experience as Product Owner in an Agile environment
  • Experience leading cross cutting programs or technology deployments, with a focus on emerging/innovative technologies and creating new process & structure for rapid scale-up
  • Familiarity with California utility regulations, regulatory processes and policy context
  • Strong verbal / written communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to work in a matrixed environment and a positive execution-oriented mentality
  • Demonstrated ability to be creative, versatile, efficient and productive in the face of ambiguity and change
  • Working technical knowledge of overall electric grid design and operations, solar PV, inverters, energy storage, conventional generation, microgrid controllers
  • Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand different distribution management applications and DER functions and platforms
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification and/or Certified Scrum Master
  • Awareness and familiarity with tools / applications regularly used by electric distribution or transmission system Operators, Operating Engineers, and Planning Engineers such as: SCADA, Outage Management System (OMS), Distribution Management System (DMS), Power Flow modeling tools (e.g., CYME), Geographic Information System (GIS), operational data historian (e.g., OSISoft Pi)
  • Familiar with Utility applications and APIs - ADMS / GIS / Network Model / REST API / Application Gateway (Apigee) / ICCP
  • Knowledge and experience with DER (Distributed Energy Resource) communications protocols - IEEE 2030.5, CSIP 2.1, Open ADR etc.

Desired Characteristics

  • Bias toward action
  • Communicates effectively highly complex ideas with credibility, confidence, and clarity to diverse audiences using a variety of media
  • Converts ambiguity into structure, creating well-oiled machines of process from scrappy first iterations
  • Rigorously defines and enforces prioritization of feature development, defeating scope creep and delivering the most impactful product improvements
  • Handles multiple projects and stakeholders and pushes for pace with self-directed drive
  • Flexibility in project communication, execution and problem approach when coordinating across various stakeholders.
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