Founding Product Manager

Lumen Energy

3d•$187,000 - $207,000

About The Position

We’re seeking a Founding Product Manager to join our technology team. This high-impact, high-visibility role is perfect for someone who thrives on building from scratch: someone who can create structure where there isn’t any, build conviction with incomplete information, and operate as a partner to our internal team and customers . You’ll be Lumen’s first dedicated PM, which means you won’t be inheriting a roadmap, an existing research practice, or a PM org to plug into. You’ll be defining what product management looks like here, with the autonomy, access, and trust to do it. You’ll report directly to our Head of Engineering and work cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, and Marketplace Operations to deliver an exceptional clean energy transaction experience for building owners and solar+battery developers alike.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience in a high-growth or startup environment, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end product cycles from discovery through delivery and measurement
Fluency with AI-assisted product development workflows, using LLMs to accelerate prototyping, research synthesis, and spec writing
Strong visual and UX sensibility, particularly since we don’t have a dedicated designer
Strong written communicator: can write prose documents to convey business context and customer needs so that engineers and AI can build without constant clarification and ambiguity
High agency and influence: A track record of owning and defending a product roadmap, including making hard prioritization calls when resources are constrained
Business acumen: you can reason about trade-offs between user value, technical complexity, and commercial impact, and connect product decisions to business outcomes
Strong user research chops: knows how to design and run customer interviews, synthesize qualitative findings, and translate them into product decisions and priorities
US work authorization required. We are unable to sponsor H1B visas at this time

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with two-sided marketplace dynamics
Experience in commercial real estate, legal tech, or other complex transaction-based businesses
Prior experience in a client-facing role such as customer success or sales
Track record as the first or only PM at a company — you’ve built a PM practice from scratch rather than inherited a mature one
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Responsibilities

Own and evolve a prioritized product roadmap for Lumen’s commercial solar and storage marketplace, informed by real user feedback, business priorities, and clear success metrics.
Shape features from discovery through implementation-ready prototypes. They should be clear enough that engineers can build confidently without constant back-and-forth to resolve ambiguity.
Serve as the connective tissue between Engineering, Sales, Ops, and Leadership: synthesize competing inputs, drive toward aligned decisions, and keep the product work moving.
Define success metrics before features ship and track whether they actually move the needle after they do.
Run a continuous user research practice: talk to building owners, solar developers, and internal stakeholders on a regular cadence, and turn what you learn into product decisions and priorities.