Principal Product Owner

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Oakland, CA

1d•$151,000 - $257,000•Hybrid

About The Position

PG&E's Enterprise Data department is looking for a Principal Product Owner to serve as the connective tissue across our enterprise data ecosystem. This role exists to connect the pieces and maximize the value they create. You will work with business leaders to understand their challenges, connect them to the right enterprise capabilities, and help guide investments across data, governance, architecture, and technology platforms. Sometimes that means creating something new. Often it means helping the company realize greater value from the investments it has already made. You will help answer the questions that matter: Are we solving the right problem? Are we creating needle-moving value? Are we getting enough value to justify continued investment? What should we build, improve, expand, consolidate, and - gasp - retire? You are part strategist, part translator, part diplomat, and a little bit troublemaker. You are curious. When you get up in the morning, you are thinking about how you will collaborate today. You thrive in ambiguity, love it, see it as your opportunity, your playground. Your favorite T-shirt says "I change the things I cannot accept" - status quo is not your thing. In this role, data is not the destination. Value is. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and at the Oakland Corporate Office approximately 1 - 2 days per week, or more, based on business needs.

Requirements

High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
7 years job-related experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
Experience as Product Owner, Agile environment, 5 years
Agile Certification

Responsibilities

Ensure value is realized by starting with outcomes, not solutions.
Distinguish what people ask for from what they actually need.
Connect investments, capabilities, and enterprise priorities to measurable business value.
Establish visibility into whether value is actually being realized over time.
Recommend improving, expanding, consolidating, or retiring investments based on evidence rather than enthusiasm.
Serve as the connective tissue between business leaders, data teams, technology teams, and major programs.
Connect business challenges to the data, analytics, governance, architecture, and technology capabilities needed to address them.
Help people see dependencies, opportunities, and relationships that are not immediately obvious.
Identify opportunities to leverage existing investments before creating new ones.
Bring together stakeholders around outcomes that no single organization can achieve alone.
Translate business priorities into enterprise capabilities.
Help shape and integrate roadmaps across products, teams, platforms, and programs.
Identify gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and investment opportunities across the portfolio.
Help leadership make informed prioritization and investment decisions.
Ensure capabilities evolve in support of business outcomes and strategic objectives.
Help leaders understand the relationship between trusted data, operational performance, risk management, analytics, and value outcomes.
Influence adoption of data ownership, stewardship, quality, and governance practices.
Promote enterprise solutions over local optimization.
Create understanding of why trusted data matters, not merely what people should do.
Help cultivate a culture in which data is treated as a strategic enterprise asset.
Build trusted relationships across organizational boundaries.
Listen first.
Challenge assumptions empathetically.
Influence decisions through credibility, collaboration, and insight rather than authority.
BFF the business; learn who is who and win their hearts and minds.
Identifies the developmental needs of others, and coaches and mentors others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Identifies the appropriate customer audience, their preferred communication channels, and potential customer response benchmarks.
Leads complex or major projects with high corporate or functional priority.
Acts as primary liaison between various departments, Stakeholders, business community, and lines of businesses.
Develops implementation plans and establish teams to introduce new technology.
Evaluates new products and equipment and keeps abreast of new products and/or equipment available in the market.
Provides product feedback and customer insight to support product development.
Partners with products organization to deliver feedback on existing products and introduce potential products for future programs.
Analyzes work plan and schedules to reallocate resources or reprioritize program work.
Develops new highly complex products.