Director, Grid Planning Product Management

Role overview

Set product direction for software that supports electric grid planning, balancing long-term strategy with hands-on backlog ownership. You’ll work across product, engineering, power systems, and customer-facing teams to ensure planning products address real industry needs and deliver measurable value. The role reports to a senior product leader and includes building and mentoring a product team as the function grows.

Responsibilities

- Own the multi-year roadmap for grid planning products and coordinate delivery priorities with product leadership. - Engage customers to understand needs, validate concepts, and keep product strategy grounded in market problems. - Assess product investments and tradeoffs, including whether to build, buy, or partner and how to sequence work. - Define success measures, track product performance, and adjust or stop initiatives that do not deliver value. - Maintain the backlog with user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge cases; guide engineering on scope, sequence, and acceptance decisions. - Align executives, sales, customer success, and engineering on priorities, risks, and tradeoffs; support sales with product expertise as needed. - Mentor and manage a growing team, while helping improve product development practices and documentation.

Requirements

- 10+ years in B2B enterprise software, including 5+ years in product management leading teams of product owners. - Degree in Power Systems Engineering. - Record of successfully leading the development and launch of SaaS products. - Strong grounding in power systems planning, including load flow and contingency analysis; familiarity with tools such as PSS®E, PowerWorld, TARA, or PSCAD. - Experience in the energy or utility sector, including transmission planning and relevant regulatory requirements. - Excellent communication across technical, business, and executive audiences, plus substantial experience with Agile development. - Strong organization and judgment when managing multiple projects and changing priorities.

Nice to have

- MBA or professional engineering license.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote-first work, flexible paid time off, and professional development support. - Health, dental, and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% match. - Competitive compensation. - Eligibility is limited to U.S. persons as defined by applicable federal law.