Senior Product Manager

Uplight

23h•Remote

About The Position

Uplight is creating a new category of energy by developing software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses. This includes smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and user behavior to generate, shift, or save energy. The goal is to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable, thereby creating clean energy capacity instead of relying on fossil fuels. This accelerates the transition to clean energy and reduces costs for energy consumers. The company is seeking a Sr. Product Manager to lead the Predictive Controls team and contribute to ambitious business and environmental goals. Predictive Controls is the VPP and battery orchestration framework, inherited from Autogrid, and works with the non-steerable asset optimization team to form the ‘device optimization’ domain. Uplight's Device Optimization software transforms Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) into Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) and smarter Demand Response (DR) programs. This enables utilities to move beyond conventional generation and manage network constraints with software-based alternatives to physical upgrades. The team also facilitates wholesale cost optimization for market trading.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline.
5+ years of progressive experience as a product manager, management consultant, chief executive, or equivalent, shipping great products for a leading consumer, SaaS, or enterprise software company.
Domain and industry knowledge are critical: familiarity with demand response, Grid and Edge DERMS systems, market participation concepts and overall understanding of the utility industry in the US.
Familiarity with optimization and data science problems.
Knowledge of the DER ecosystem: devices, OEMs, capabilities and use cases.
Ability to facilitate, understand and put forth technical design concepts, APIs, DB querying.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a product roadmap for Uplight’s Predictive Controls, in line with our product vision and strategy.
Conduct market research to stay up-to-date on industry trends and identify new opportunities.
Work closely with engineers and data-scientists to design, build, and launch new products and features.
Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to bring new products to market and drive customer adoption.
Collaborate with Implementation and Operations for successful delivery and execution.
Analyze product performance and make data-driven decisions to optimize the product.
Maintain documentation artefacts for the organization to self serve on roadmap, product documentation and implementation details.