Product Manager - SaaS

About the job:

Our Client is looking for a Product Manager II. This influential role sits at the intersection of supporting program managers, grid operators, and our internal admin teams, to drive maximum impact on grid flexibility.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As our Product Manager II, you will be a key member of the Product Management team and directly impact development efforts, customer experience, and market success.
• Partner with Engineering and Design to support 1-2 development pods (team) executing in an Agile Scrum environment, writing high-quality User Stories, running refinement sessions, and supporting sprint planning aligned to product strategy.
• Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clearly prioritized, with well-defined scope for upcoming sprints and near-term roadmap objectives.
• Be the voice of the customer for your assigned product area, ensuring customer needs and business goals are reflected in development priorities.

What you get to do:

• Contribute to the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for your product area.
• Work closely with a cross-functional team (including Product Design, Consumer Operations, Information Systems, Accounting, Reporting, and Implementation) to ensure product goals, deadlines, and deliverables are met.
• Own the pod teams backlog: Work with internal and external stakeholders to triage, refine, and prioritize work.
• Decompose epics into stories, clearly define acceptance criteria, and ensure stories meet expectations upon delivery.

What you bring to the Company:

• 6+ years of experience as a Product Manager delivering successful products in a SaaS, consumer, or enterprise software environment.
• Strong background and in-depth understanding of reusable components based front-end architecture, and widget-based product design.
• Strong usability mindset with the ability to define intuitive user experiences and collaborate effectively with Product Design on UX improvements.
• Experience driving widgetization or modularization strategies to enable scalable, configurable product capabilities.
• Understanding of functional workflows and key technical aspects of frontend systems to effectively partner with engineering teams.
• Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts including APIs, system integrations, and basic database queries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills able to clearly express complex ideas.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum development processes.
• Proficiency with Jira or similar backlog management tools.

Qualifications:

• Technical and/or management education, PG preferable, not mandatory