Senior Product Owner

Schneider Electric•Chicago, IL

About The Position

As the Battery Storage & MID Product Owner, you will define, develop, launch, and manage residential, commercial, and industrial energy products throughout their lifecycle. The portfolio may include battery energy storage systems, MID-certified metering and monitoring solutions, hybrid inverters, energy management systems, and grid-interaction capabilities. The role also supports solar-plus-storage solutions that improve self-consumption, backup resilience, tariff optimization, and grid flexibility. You will represent the needs of homeowners, installers, solar contractors, utilities, commercial customers, distributors, and channel partners, translating market needs, regulations, workflows, utility programs, and business objectives into differentiated, profitable products. You will lead cross-functional execution with Engineering, Software, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Customer Care, and installer and partner networks. The role is accountable for delivering safe, reliable, cyber-secure, standards-compliant, commercially successful products that accelerate electrification, improve energy resilience, and create measurable customer value. You will own product vision, portfolio strategy, roadmaps, lifecycle plans, business cases, positioning, pricing, and go-to-market priorities. You will lead customer research and requirements definition, guide development and tradeoffs, and ensure products meet safety, grid-interconnection, metering, cybersecurity, data-privacy, and environmental requirements. Responsibilities also include cost and margin management, quality and warranty objectives, field trials, launch readiness, and post-launch optimization. The position requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or business discipline and at least five years of relevant product management, product ownership, product marketing, or technical program management experience. An MBA or advanced technical degree is preferred. Experience in energy storage, solar, inverters, metering, energy management, renewables, grid services, or related industries is sought, along with experience launching connected hardware products and managing cross-functional development from concept through commercialization. For this U.S.-based full-time position, the expected annual pay range is USD 117,600–176,400, including base pay and short-term incentives. Individual pay depends on factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Schneider Electric describes its workplace as inclusive and highlights its IMPACT values: Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, and Teamwork.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Product Management, Business, Marketing, Energy Systems, or a related technical discipline.
At least 5 years of product management, product ownership, product marketing, or technical program management experience.
Experience in battery energy storage, solar PV, inverters, energy management, electrical distribution, metering, renewables, grid services, or a related industry.
Proven experience launching hardware-enabled connected products, ideally involving battery systems, inverters, meters, or energy-management software.
Experience managing cross-functional development programs from concept through commercialization.
Strong business-case development, financial analysis, pricing, and product-portfolio skills.
Ability to translate complex technical, regulatory, and customer requirements into clear product requirements.
Excellent cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
Comfort operating in Agile, stage-gate, and hybrid product-development environments.
Data-driven decision-making, prioritization, and tradeoff-management skills.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced technical degree.
Familiarity with BMS, PCS/inverter integration, battery safety, backup power, solar-plus-storage systems, MID/metrology requirements, and grid-interconnection considerations.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, portfolio strategy, multi-year roadmap, and lifecycle plan for battery storage and MID metering solutions.
Build and obtain approval for business cases covering market sizing, target segments, revenue forecasts, gross margin, installed cost, service economics, and investment needs.
Define product positioning, value propositions, pricing architecture, and go-to-market priorities across residential, light commercial, commercial, and utility-adjacent segments.
Monitor technology, regulatory, tariff, adoption, and competitive trends and identify product opportunities.
Lead Voice of Customer research with homeowners, installers, contractors, EPCs, distributors, utilities, site operators, and internal sales teams.
Capture customer and market requirements and translate them into prioritized epics, product requirements, specifications, and user stories.
Conduct competitive benchmarking and manage requirements changes through impact assessment, stakeholder review, and change control.
Define requirements for battery systems, BMS, PCS and hybrid inverters, enclosures, thermal management, communications, accessories, storage architectures, backup power, generator integration, load management, and expansion.
Support solar-plus-storage use cases and integration with energy management, tariffs, demand response, backup automation, and virtual power plant or fleet-management platforms.
Partner with Engineering, Software, Controls, Quality, and Manufacturing to prioritize development backlogs, resolve tradeoffs, and maintain MVP scope.
Own requirements for MID-certified metering, sub-metering, energy monitoring, and measurement solutions, including accuracy, measurement points, data, interfaces, user experience, installation, and certification needs.
Work with Regulatory, Quality, Engineering, and external certification partners to maintain compliance throughout the product lifecycle.
Own target product, BOM, landed, warranty, and service costs, as well as gross-margin objectives; lead feature-versus-cost decisions with relevant teams.
Develop pricing strategies for retail, distribution, installer/project, strategic-account, and utility-program channels.
Support quality planning, failure-mode analysis, field-failure reduction, warranty analytics, and corrective actions.
Define field-pilot objectives, success criteria, site and participant selection, deployment plans, and data collection requirements.
Assess readiness for trials and launches, lead issue triage and root-cause reviews, and use pilot, installer, telemetry, and customer feedback to prioritize improvements.
Coordinate launch readiness across documentation, training, sales enablement, installation tools, spare parts, support processes, and marketing assets.
Support patent identification, innovation initiatives, and post-launch portfolio optimization.