Principal Product Manager, Energy

NRG•VIRTUAL, WA

24d•$162,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Product Manager, Energy, will act as the cross-portfolio product owner for smart home energy within the Vivint ecosystem. This is a senior individual contributor role for a product professional who can connect in-home energy features, grid programs, partner integrations, and customer offers into one coherent plan. You will take defined business objectives and translate them into a prioritized roadmap and clear decisions, working alongside the product leads who own the core of the energy portfolio.

Requirements

Proven ability to take broad goals and independently establish a structured execution path, maintaining steady progress as constraints and partner conditions shift.
Strong proficiency with data analytics tools to evaluate product and program health, understand customer behavior, and justify prioritization with clear metrics.
Working knowledge of demand response, virtual power plants, distributed energy resources, smart thermostats, or connected-home products, and how a grid program turns a device into valuable capacity.
Sound understanding of software development lifecycles, API and platform integrations, and the hardware and firmware constraints of connected IoT consumer experiences.
Experience leading relationships where product decisions and commercial terms are intertwined.
Ability to synthesize complex technical and commercial information into concise, scannable updates for engineering peers and senior leadership.
8+ years of technical product management experience, including a track record of shipping consumer-facing software, IoT, or connected hardware products and leading strategy across multiple teams.
Direct experience using product analytics platforms or working alongside data engineering teams to track, verify, and improve customer experiences.
B.S. or M.S. in a technical field preferred (Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline); equivalent practical product management experience considered.

Nice To Haves

Wholesale electricity markets, utility programs, or retail energy providers; customer consent and opt-out design for connected-device control; businesses that sell devices, subscriptions, and services together.

Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of how, when, and why customers engage with energy features, and where comfort, savings, and trust are won or lost.
Use telemetry, program performance data, and customer research to track adoption, diagnose friction, and prioritize investment.
Own the multi-year energy product direction and translate it into a roadmap that spans in-home features, grid programs, devices, and offers.
Define, prioritize, and drive the energy roadmap, translating strategy into clear, executable requirements and making sequencing tradeoffs explicit.
Own the product definition that connects personalized, AI-driven home energy optimization to demand response, virtual power plant, and utility programs, including how results are measured and verified.
Ensure energy capabilities align with Vivint's platform architecture and design language, avoiding siloed features.
Author crisp product requirement documents, specs, and business briefs that turn customer and program needs into precise requirements for engineering and data science teams.
Establish and monitor success metrics and dashboards for adoption, savings, engagement, and program participation.
Partner with legal and customer experience teams on the terms, consent, and opt-out design that allow energy programs to be delivered responsibly.
Lead the product side of relationships with device makers, integration platforms, and utility partners, working with partnerships and legal where product and commercial terms are connected.
Partner with NRG and Vivint commercial teams on energy-related offers, bundles, and pricing concepts.
Partner closely with the Smart Comfort product lead (in-home energy experience) and the VPP / demand response product lead (grid programs and partner integrations). You will not take over their backlogs; you will own the decisions between and above them, set shared priorities, and resolve tradeoffs.
Maintain alignment across engineering, UX, data science, legal, and commercial partners, and escalate core tradeoffs and timeline risks to senior product leadership with clear recommendations.