Principal Product Manager, Energy

NRG•Seattle, WA

24d•$162,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Product Manager, Energy, will serve as the cross-portfolio product owner for smart home energy within the Vivint ecosystem. This senior individual contributor will connect in-home energy features, grid programs, partner integrations, and customer offers into a coherent product plan. The role translates business objectives into a prioritized roadmap and clear decisions in collaboration with product leads who own core parts of the energy portfolio. The position owns multi-year energy product direction and roadmap execution across in-home features, grid programs, devices, and offers. It defines how AI-driven home energy optimization connects with demand response, virtual power plants, and utility programs, and establishes how program outcomes are measured and verified. The product manager also authors requirements, monitors product and program health, collaborates on responsible customer terms and consent, and leads the product side of partner and platform integrations. The role works across engineering, UX, data science, legal, commercial teams, and product leadership to align priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and communicate risks and recommendations. It requires in-office presence in Seattle, Washington on a hybrid schedule: Monday through Thursday in the office and Friday working from home. The position will start remotely before moving to the hybrid schedule.

Requirements

At least 8 years of technical product management experience.
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.
Ability to independently establish a structured execution path from broad goals and maintain progress as constraints and partner conditions change.
Strong proficiency with data analytics tools to evaluate product and program health, understand customer behavior, and support prioritization with metrics.
Working knowledge of demand response, virtual power plants, distributed energy resources, smart thermostats, or connected-home products, including how grid programs turn devices into valuable capacity.
Understanding of software development lifecycles, API and platform integrations, and hardware and firmware constraints in connected IoT consumer experiences.
Experience leading partner relationships where product decisions and commercial terms are intertwined.
Ability to communicate complex technical and commercial information concisely to engineering peers and senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience with wholesale electricity markets, utility programs, or retail energy providers.
Experience with customer consent and opt-out design for connected-device control.
Experience in businesses that sell devices, subscriptions, and services together.
B.S. or M.S. in a technical field, such as Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline; equivalent practical product management experience is also considered.

Responsibilities

Develop an understanding of how, when, and why customers use energy features, and identify where comfort, savings, and trust are gained or lost.
Use telemetry, program performance data, and customer research to track adoption, diagnose friction, and prioritize investment.
Own multi-year energy product direction and translate it into a roadmap spanning in-home features, grid programs, devices, and offers.
Define, prioritize, and drive the energy roadmap, translating strategy into executable requirements and making sequencing tradeoffs explicit.
Define how personalized, AI-driven home energy optimization connects to demand response, virtual power plants, and utility programs, including measurement and verification of results.
Ensure energy capabilities align with Vivint’s platform architecture and design language.
Write product requirement documents, specifications, and business briefs 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 terms, consent, and opt-out design for energy programs.
Lead the product side of relationships with device makers, integration platforms, and utility partners, coordinating with partnerships and legal where product and commercial terms intersect.
Partner with NRG and Vivint commercial teams on energy offers, bundles, and pricing concepts.
Work with the Smart Comfort product lead and the VPP / demand response product lead to set shared priorities and resolve cross-portfolio tradeoffs without taking over their backlogs.
Maintain alignment across engineering, UX, data science, legal, and commercial partners, and escalate core tradeoffs and timeline risks to senior product leadership with recommendations.