Senior Technical Product Manager & Product Owner at Fairfield, VA (Full Time) - (IK)

Central Business Solutions•Fairfield, CA

20d•$120,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Technical Product Manager and a Product Owner, you will be part of PT&D Digital Energy Solutions’ Product Management and Technical Pre-sales team under the CTO organization to drive innovation around our Digital Energy Solutions Products for the Cleantech/Energy & Utilities products. You will help develop, document, and execute a comprehensive plan to understand user needs, iterate on product scope and ensure the timely development of highly complex technical products. With the CTO, you will be responsible for giving our teams the information and product methodology needed to succeed and continuously help us improve as an organization. The candidate must have strong technical skills and rich energy & utilities industry experience in product engineering/development roles to be able to meet job requirements. This position demands a mix of management and technical skills to lead development teams.

Requirements

Bachelors’ Degree with 5 years of Product Engineering/ Technical Product Management experience (3+ years with master’s degree) for Power Transmission & Distribution System Automation & Control Software Domain
Agile based SDLC experience with enterprise level environments for 5+ years
4 years' experience as a Product Owner
2 years' experience in scrum, CICD, and DevOps.
Experienced in requirements gathering and aggregation.
Experience in digital/software solutions for Electrical Power Transmission & Distribution Industry.
Scripting / Programming skills.

Nice To Haves

Domain Expertise: Transmission & Distribution Automation / Control Software Experience.
Technical standards, communication protocols, or compliance frameworks (e.g., IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEEE 2030.5, CIM, NERC CIP).
Customer engagement, RFI/RFP processes, or technical pre-sales support.

Responsibilities

Uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into technical product (functional/non-functional/technical) requirements.
Ability to work well with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, as well as business operations such as Product marketing managers, business segment teams (Business Analysts).
Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the industry and in general.
Follow competitors and conduct technical capability analysis regularly.
Provide internal and customer training on how to use the product.
Answer incoming questions about the product and its capabilities to support Sales & Marketing teams.
Assess, document, and address technical risks in collaboration with architecture and product development teams.
Serve as a product evangelist and subject matter expert to the technical/developer community.
Coordinate beta tests and define success criteria for testing and product acceptance.
Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.
Lead technical pre-sales activities and technical product/solution demos supporting sales & marketing team.