Platform Product Manager (GridUnity Intelligence Platform)

About the role:

This position reports to GridUnity’s Strategic Product Officer and will be responsible for evolving the strategy and roadmap for the technical capabilities of the GridUnity Intelligence Platform, serving a national customer base. You will partner with GridUnity’s application product owners to ensure each new application launched and supported by GridUnity and its partner network leverages the platform in the most efficient manner.

You will:

• Set the vision for platform components and capabilities, aligning stakeholders around the vision, strategy, and execution.
• Collaborate with application product owners to ensure product management’s approach to customer needs is clear to the engineering team.
• Ensure the engineering team maintains a well-defined understanding of prioritized components, backlog, and goals for each development increment, delivered through iterative Agile development.
• Specify product requirements, plan development iterations, review progress, and accept deliverables for release.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the strategic roadmap for GridUnity’s Intelligence Platform components and coordinate delivery timing with the Director of Product Management.
• Balance platform prioritization against feature velocity; present and defend trade-offs to leadership.
• Set platform success metrics — API adoption, integration uptime/reliability, time-to-build for a new module, and Product Owner/developer satisfaction — and report against them.

Partnership with Engineering & Product Owners

• Act as the primary product partner to infrastructure engineering.
• Educate product owners on platform components and engineering infrastructure.
• Run a lightweight intake process using Jira component flags to manage platform capability requests and support testing of customer satisfaction.
• Write epics, requirements, and acceptance criteria; run backlog refinement and release planning with infrastructure engineering.

Data Model & API Stewardship

• Own the core platform object model and its extension framework for all new customers and regulatory requirements across the U.S.
• Evolve and govern the developer API portal for internal and external partner use.

Integration & Ecosystem Strategy

• Define the GridUnity integration framework plan for third-party systems.
• Set integration requirements, SLAs, and support models with engineering, security, and customer-facing teams.

Platform Quality, Security & Compliance

• Champion performance, scalability, multi-tenant security, auditability, and regulatory/data compliance as first-class platform requirements.
• Sequence platform-hardening work to protect utility and regulator customers' data.

Leadership & Influence

• Operate with high autonomy, leading through influence and deep coordination with the Director of Product Management and Director of Product Enablement.
• Represent platform capabilities and constraints in company planning, RFPs, and executive roadmap reviews.
• Mentor and manage a growing team.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in B2B enterprise software, including 7+ years in Product Management, with meaningful experience in platform/infrastructure/technical Product Management.
• Track record of successful SaaS-based products developed and launched.
• Energy/utility industry experience and knowledge is required.
• Experience in utility, ISO/RTO, or interconnection/grid planning/utility-scale project development is a plus.
• In-depth understanding of Agile software development methodology.
• Strong technical and business communication skills.
• Stakeholder management and prioritization skills.
• Highly organized with ability to manage multiple projects and deliverables.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Education:

• Undergraduate degree in STEM field or equivalent experience preferred.