Associate Product Manager

BRIGHT POWER INC • New York, NY

8d • $70,000 - $95,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Bright Power is seeking an Associate Product Manager to join their team and help build and scale a new client-facing software platform in the energy management space. This role is ideal for someone with 2–4 years of experience who enjoys solving complex problems and working across teams to deliver meaningful product outcomes. The Associate Product Manager will be central to product, software engineering, and stakeholder collaboration, translating needs into action, keeping teams aligned, and contributing to the development of products that effectively serve their users.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in product, product ops, analytics, or a related role.
• Experience working cross-functionally with software engineering and business teams.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; able to build trust quickly.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and meet deadlines.
• Curious, proactive, and comfortable in a fast-moving environment.
• SQL proficiency required.
• Strong Excel/data analysis skills.
• Ability to break down business processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Empathetic problem-solver who seeks to understand before acting.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities.
• Takes ownership and follows through on commitments.
• Eager to learn, grow, and continuously improve how work gets done.
• Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• SQL (MySQL required; Supabase a plus).
• Salesforce and API familiarity a plus.
• Experience using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Supabase a plus.
• Salesforce and API familiarity a plus.
• Experience using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Support product requirements, user stories, and feature development.
• Organize and maintain documentation of product scopes, feature plans, timelines, and roadmaps.
• Translate user and business needs into clear, actionable specifications.
• Act as a trusted resource for product knowledge across teams.
• Help teams balance user experience, business priorities, and technical constraints.
• Own feature testing and validation ahead of releases, coordinating internal resources as testers where needed.
• Identify and track bugs, edge cases, workflow issues, friction points, unmet needs, and opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure features align with real-world user behavior and expectations.
• Organize feedback about user needs, motivations, and pain points.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to understand goals, constraints, and success criteria.
• Gather and synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into concrete product improvements.
• Use SQL and data analysis to validate insights and understand product performance.
• Distill complex data into simple, decision-ready takeaways.
• Partner closely with software engineering and stakeholders to ensure product work reflects real user and business needs.
• Keep roadmaps, specs, and timelines clear, accessible, and aligned across teams.
• Proactively surface risks, ask questions, and help teams navigate tradeoffs.
• Ensure decisions and changes are communicated with context—not just updates.
• Support smooth, predictable releases through early and consistent alignment.
• Build trust-based relationships across teams to keep work moving and aligned.
• Facilitate cross-functional conversations and written updates that clarify goals, uncover concerns, and drive shared understanding.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and decisions with transparency and context.
• Help maintain a structured, transparent product development process.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
• Compliance with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
• Prohibition of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed