Senior Director, Product Management
About The Position
The Senior Director, Product Management leads NYPA’s Demand Flexibility & Product Development function, with a primary focus on advancing Demand Flexibility and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) solutions. In addition, this role provides oversight and strategic direction for developing a broad range of innovative energy services and opportunities across NYPA’s customer solutions portfolio, spanning energy efficiency, electrification, and decarbonization solutions such as solar, storage, electric vehicles, and related offerings. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of innovators launching new energy solutions and services at scale. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, brings experience in demand flexibility and VPPs, understands how VPPs interact with other customer energy solutions, and has proven go-to-market experience working directly with customers to address complex market and customer needs. This is a hands-on, customer- and business-oriented role, leading a team that drives NYPA’s commercialization and go-to-market processes for new product opportunities—setting product vision and strategy, ensuring solutions are customer-focused, aligned with other in-market offerings, and positioned for sustained success. The Senior Director oversees and prioritizes products from inception and ideation through design, build, launch, growth, enhancement, and eventual sunset, including ongoing maintenance, evolution, or pivoting as needed. Throughout the product lifecycle, the Senior Director collaborates with subject matter experts and internal and external stakeholders to develop robust justifications, business cases, and implementation plans that guide product decisions and ensure NYPA’s portfolio delivers meaningful value to its customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Economics, Finance, Strategic Planning or the equivalent required.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with energy project/business development.
- Minimum of 3 years of people management/leadership experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or the equivalent, preferred.
- Advanced degree in Business Administration or related field, preferred.
- Experience working in or with government agencies, preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership and establish programs and strategies for identification and development of product opportunities for NYPA.
- Manage stage business process, ensuring that all internal stakeholders are engaged.
- Facilitate the strategic planning process by identifying high impact opportunities and structuring tradeoff analyses.
- Oversee the development of competitive intelligence and performs competitive analyses.
- Lead product teams consisting of technical, environmental, commercial/marketing and financial disciplines in developing products.
- Provide oversight and coaching for product enhancements.
- Ensure that product managers are properly documenting product requirements, user stories, and artifacts to support the product development process.
- Ensure that product managers follow a consistent approach to monitor product adoption and use and collect customer feedback.
- Oversee and enforce a consistent, objective process to prioritize and select product enhancements.
- Participate in industry events, trainings, and conferences as needed.
Benefits
- The New York Power Authority is committed to providing fair, competitive, and market-informed compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
