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Director, Product Management Energy

NRG Energy · Washington, United States · 3 wk ago
Marketing$178k–$293k/yrFull-time

Position Summary

The Director of Product Management for Energy Experiences will act as the single-threaded technical product owner responsible for driving the lifecycle, prioritization, and execution of the smart home energy management roadmap.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Customer Insights & Energy Data Mastery

    • Deep Consumer Understanding: Act as the organization's primary champion for the user, developing an exhaustive understanding of how, when, and why customers consume energy within their households today.
    • Behavioral & Consumption Data Expertise: Utilize deep data expertise to analyze complex customer usage patterns, device telemetry, and household power metrics, transforming these insights into actionable energy optimization strategies.
    • Feature & Hardware Gap Analysis: Continuously identify friction points and critical gaps in our current product features and physical hardware suite, determining exactly how our ambient system can be evolved to better automate household efficiency.

  • Roadmap Strategy & Energy Ecosystem Execution

  • Data-Driven Energy Roadmap: Own the multi-year technical product roadmap, requirements definitions, and feature sequencing to transform Vivint into a central, proactive residential energy hub.
  • Cross-Functional Hardware/Software Integration: Bridge the gap between physical smart home endpoints (thermostats, smart plugs, panels) and utility-facing software layers, managing the product lifecycle from initial data modeling through to over-the-air (OTA) feature deployment.
  • Smart Home & Grid Orchestration: Act as a core thought leader on how home automation hardware can interact with external energy programs, ensuring our system can respond intelligently to grid events while preserving a premium user experience.

  • Influence & Matrixed Leadership

    • Independent Delivery: Operate autonomously as a senior individual contributor, driving complex, multi-phase product launches across the organization without relying on a large team of direct reports.
    • Cross-Functional Influence: Lead and align matrixed peer teams across Hardware/Software Engineering, Data Science, UX Design, Corporate Sustainability, and External Utility/Regulatory Partners to maintain delivery velocity.
    • Executive Communication: Serve as the primary product spokesperson for your domain, clearly communicating roadmap milestones, energy savings analytics, and long-term product health to executive leadership.

    Required Skills & Functional Dimensions

    • Autonomous Strategy & Extreme Ambiguity: Proven ability to independently manage a complex technical product domain, establishing a clear execution path and building product frameworks with incomplete data sets.
    • Advanced Analytics & Energy Literacy: Exceptional capability to dissect complex consumption data sets, identifying core metrics and behavioral trends that reveal opportunities for automatic energy conservation and grid integration.
    • Versatile Technical Literacy: Comfortable diving deep into hardware constraints and firmware capabilities, as well as cloud APIs, data pipelines, and distributed energy resource management software (DERMS).
    • Systems Thinking: Strong product design instincts with a focus on building cohesive, ecosystem-wide experiences rather than siloed, standalone features.

    Required Education & Experience

    • Experience: 6–8+ years of technical product management experience, with a solid track record of shipping consumer-facing software features, smart home solutions, or energy-adjacent tech platforms at scale.
    • Data-Driven Delivery Track Record: Demonstrated experience working closely alongside data science and analytics teams to monitor, evaluate, and evolve live, mass-market consumer experiences.
    • Cross-Functional Partnership: Proven success working daily alongside engineering architects, software developers, and industrial designers to deliver high-quality customer experiences.
    • Education: B.S. or M.S. in a Technical Field (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, or a related quantitative discipline); equivalent practical technical experience considered.

    Pay & Benefits

    • The base salary range for this position is: $177,520 - $292,920*
    • Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
    • The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.
    • In addition the position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.

    Job Functions

    • The position requires in-office presence in Seattle, WA on a hybrid schedule for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with a work from home day on Friday. The position will start remote and then will move into the hybrid schedule.

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