Grid Edge Intelligence Portfolio Marketing & Solutions Strategy
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text like "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD". Never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro paragraph: "Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us. The Leader, Grid Edge Intelligence Portfolio Marketing & Solutions Strategy is responsible for defining, packaging, positioning, and evangelizing the Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio as an integrated suite of business solutions for electric utilities. This strategic leadership role serves as the chief storyteller for the portfolio, translating complex technologies, products, and capabilities into compelling customer-centric narratives that drive market differentiation, customer value, and commercial growth. This leader will bridge Product Management, Industry Strategy, Sales, Customer Success, and Corporate Marketing to ensure the portfolio is aligned with utility business priorities such as reliability, affordability, grid modernization, distributed energy resource (DER) integration, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. As a highly collaborative and innovative strategist, this individual will orchestrate portfolio-level go-to-market initiatives, create executive-level messaging, and enable solution-selling motions that help customers achieve measurable business outcomes."
That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section.
Then "Duties & Responsibilities" list: many bullet points.
Then "Required Skills & Experience": list of bullet points (some are sentences). Then "Preferred Skills & Experience": list.
Then "Travel": Travel of approx 20% expected, including domestic and international travel...
Then "Benefits Info": This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule, and more! The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience and may vary by location. The base salary is $140,000-218,000 annually. This position is eligible for our annual bonus program.
Then some EEO statements etc to remove.
We need to decide sections.
We have:
- About the role (intro paragraph)
- Responsibilities (duties)
- Requirements (maybe combine Required Skills & Experience)
- Qualifications (maybe Preferred Skills & Experience? Or we could treat Required as Requirements, Preferred as Qualifications)
- Skills (maybe we could combine but they want separate sections if content exists)
- Benefits (benefits info)
- Pay (salary range)
- Schedule (maybe hybrid work schedule? The posting mentions hybrid work schedule under benefits. Could be schedule info. But schedule section only if posting actually states them. It mentions hybrid work schedule as part of benefits. Could treat schedule as part of benefits? But they want separate sections only if content exists. There's mention of hybrid work schedule, but not explicit schedule like full-time, part-time, shift. Could treat schedule as part of benefits? However they have a Schedule section possible if they mention work schedule. The posting says "hybrid work schedule". That's schedule info. So we could create a Schedule section with that detail.
But we need to avoid filler. The schedule info is specific: hybrid work schedule. So we can include.
Pay: base salary range $140,000-218,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility. That's specific.
Benefits: list of benefits: financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule (but we might move hybrid to schedule). Also "and more!" but we should not include vague "and more!"? It's okay to keep as part of benefits but not filler. It's not placeholder like "varies". It's okay.
We need to remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions, contact info for accommodation, etc.
Also remove "Itron is transforming how the world manages energy, water and city services..." paragraph at end (boilerplate). Also remove "If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align..." etc (encouragement to apply) - that's application encouragement, maybe considered boilerplate? It's not strictly EEO but it's encouraging to apply; could be considered application instruction? Might be considered fluff but not required. Safer to remove it as it's not substantive about role. Also remove "Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer." etc. Also remove contact for accommodation.
Also remove "Travel Travel of approximately 20% is expected, including domestic and international travel to support customer engagement, industry events, internal collaboration, and strategic business initiatives." That's travel info. Should we include a Travel section? Not in the list of allowed headings; they only listed About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Travel is not in that list, so we should not create a Travel section. But we need to preserve all substantive information; we cannot invent sections not allowed. However we could incorporate travel info into Responsibilities or About the role? It's not a duty but a condition. Could we put it under Responsibilities as a bullet? It's not a duty but a condition of employment. The instructions: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." They gave examples but not exclusive? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. So we should not create other headings like Travel. We need to fold travel info into maybe Responsibilities or About the role as a sentence. But it's not a duty; maybe we can put it under Responsibilities as a bullet: "Expected travel of approximately 20% (domestic and international)". That seems okay.
Similarly, we need to preserve the hybrid work schedule info; we can put under Schedule section.
Now, we need to decide which sections to include.
We have substantive content for:
- About the role (intro)
- Responsibilities (duties list)
- Requirements (Required Skills & Experience)
- Qualifications (Preferred Skills & Experience) - could be Qualifications
- Skills (maybe we could split Required Skills & Experience into Requirements and Skills? But they'd be similar. Better to have Requirements for required, Qualifications for preferred, and maybe Skills for something else? Not needed. Could combine Required Skills & Experience into Requirements, and Preferred into Qualifications. Then we might not need Skills section. But we need to avoid thin sections. If we have only About, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule that's 7 sections. That's okay.
But we need to check if we have content for Skills separate from Requirements. The posting has Required Skills & Experience and Preferred Skills & Experience. So we can map Required to Requirements, Preferred to Qualifications. No separate Skills needed.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not include empty sections.
Now we need to format.
- About the role: About the role
then
with the intro paragraph(s). Might need to split into multiple paragraphs? Could combine into one
. Ensure we preserve all substantive information: we need to keep the sentences about Itron innovating, join us, the role responsibilities, bridging teams, etc. Let's capture that.
We need to remove duplicated lines: there is some duplication? Not seeing.
Now Responsibilities: we need to list each duty as
- inside
. The duties are many bullet points after "Duties & Responsibilities". Let's extract them:
List:
1. Own and evolve the market-facing strategy, positioning, messaging architecture, and value proposition for the Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market trends, and corporate growth objectives.
2. Develop a cohesive portfolio narrative that translates products, technologies, and data-driven capabilities into customer-centric solutions addressing utility challenges and strategic priorities.
3. Define and package integrated solutions that connect technology investments to utility business outcomes, including grid reliability, affordability, DER integration, decarbonization, grid modernization, customer engagement, resilience, and operational efficiency.
4. Partner collaboratively with Product Management, Business Units, Corporate Marketing, Industry Strategy, Sales, and Customer Success teams to drive portfolio alignment, launch readiness, and market impact.
5. Lead portfolio-level go-to-market strategies, including market segmentation, target buyer personas, campaign themes, value messaging, analyst relations, customer references, and sales enablement programs.
6. Create and maintain executive narratives, solution presentations, seller playbooks, discovery frameworks, messaging libraries, and business-value-driven content that supports complex solution selling.
7. Serve as an authentic and accountable portfolio evangelist, representing the company with customers, partners, analysts, industry associations, and executive stakeholders.
8. Lead market intelligence and competitive analysis efforts to ensure portfolio positioning remains differentiated, relevant, and aligned with the evolving utility technology landscape.
9. Identify emerging industry trends, regulatory drivers, customer priorities, and technology innovations that influence portfolio strategy and commercial opportunities.
10. Work closely with strategic account teams to support executive customer engagements, business outcome discussions, and enterprise solution strategies.
11. Establish and monitor key portfolio performance metrics, using data-driven insights to continuously optimize messaging, market engagement, and go-to-market effectiveness.
12. Foster an agile, collaborative, and innovative culture that encourages cross-functional partnership, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
We need to ensure we keep all.
Now Requirements (Required Skills & Experience):
List:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, Energy Systems, Communications, or a related field.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Product Marketing, Solution Marketing, Product Management, Portfolio Strategy, Industry Strategy, Go-to-Market Leadership, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success developing portfolio-level positioning, solution messaging, executive value propositions, and market narratives across multiple products, platforms, or business units.
- Strong understanding of electric utility operations and digital transformation initiatives, including Grid Modernization, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Distributed Intelligence, Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Utility Software, Analytics, or Grid Edge technologies.
- Experience supporting enterprise B2B solution sales organizations and creating customer-focused messaging that drives business-value-led conversations.
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams while balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to executive, technical, and business audiences.
- Experience conducting market research, competitive intelligence, customer analysis, and industry trend assessments to support strategic decision-making.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities.
- Demonstrated accountability for delivering measurable business outcomes and commercial impact.
Now Qualifications (Preferred Skills & Experience):
- Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Marketing, Engineering, Energy Management, or a related discipline.
- Experience within utility technology, smart grid, DER management, Grid Edge Intelligence, IoT, SaaS, data analytics, AI-driven utility solutions, or related energy technology sectors.
- Proven experience leading portfolio marketing, solutions strategy, or go-to-market functions within a utilities, energy, industrial technology, or enterprise software organization.
- Experience engaging with utility executives, industry analysts, regulators, and strategic industry organizations.
- Familiarity with utility business planning, asset management, customer programs, grid operations
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text like "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD". Never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro paragraph: "Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us. The Leader, Grid Edge Intelligence Portfolio Marketing & Solutions Strategy is responsible for defining, packaging, positioning, and evangelizing the Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio as an integrated suite of business solutions for electric utilities. This strategic leadership role serves as the chief storyteller for the portfolio, translating complex technologies, products, and capabilities into compelling customer-centric narratives that drive market differentiation, customer value, and commercial growth. This leader will bridge Product Management, Industry Strategy, Sales, Customer Success, and Corporate Marketing to ensure the portfolio is aligned with utility business priorities such as reliability, affordability, grid modernization, distributed energy resource (DER) integration, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. As a highly collaborative and innovative strategist, this individual will orchestrate portfolio-level go-to-market initiatives, create executive-level messaging, and enable solution-selling motions that help customers achieve measurable business outcomes." That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section. Then "Duties & Responsibilities" list: many bullet points. Then "Required Skills & Experience": list of bullet points (some are sentences). Then "Preferred Skills & Experience": list. Then "Travel": Travel of approx 20% expected, including domestic and international travel... Then "Benefits Info": This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule, and more! The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience and may vary by location. The base salary is $140,000-218,000 annually. This position is eligible for our annual bonus program. Then some EEO statements etc to remove. We need to decide sections. We have: - About the role (intro paragraph) - Responsibilities (duties) - Requirements (maybe combine Required Skills & Experience) - Qualifications (maybe Preferred Skills & Experience? Or we could treat Required as Requirements, Preferred as Qualifications) - Skills (maybe we could combine but they want separate sections if content exists) - Benefits (benefits info) - Pay (salary range) - Schedule (maybe hybrid work schedule? The posting mentions hybrid work schedule under benefits. Could be schedule info. But schedule section only if posting actually states them. It mentions hybrid work schedule as part of benefits. Could treat schedule as part of benefits? But they want separate sections only if content exists. There's mention of hybrid work schedule, but not explicit schedule like full-time, part-time, shift. Could treat schedule as part of benefits? However they have a Schedule section possible if they mention work schedule. The posting says "hybrid work schedule". That's schedule info. So we could create a Schedule section with that detail. But we need to avoid filler. The schedule info is specific: hybrid work schedule. So we can include. Pay: base salary range $140,000-218,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility. That's specific. Benefits: list of benefits: financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule (but we might move hybrid to schedule). Also "and more!" but we should not include vague "and more!"? It's okay to keep as part of benefits but not filler. It's not placeholder like "varies". It's okay. We need to remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions, contact info for accommodation, etc. Also remove "Itron is transforming how the world manages energy, water and city services..." paragraph at end (boilerplate). Also remove "If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align..." etc (encouragement to apply) - that's application encouragement, maybe considered boilerplate? It's not strictly EEO but it's encouraging to apply; could be considered application instruction? Might be considered fluff but not required. Safer to remove it as it's not substantive about role. Also remove "Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer." etc. Also remove contact for accommodation. Also remove "Travel Travel of approximately 20% is expected, including domestic and international travel to support customer engagement, industry events, internal collaboration, and strategic business initiatives." That's travel info. Should we include a Travel section? Not in the list of allowed headings; they only listed About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Travel is not in that list, so we should not create a Travel section. But we need to preserve all substantive information; we cannot invent sections not allowed. However we could incorporate travel info into Responsibilities or About the role? It's not a duty but a condition. Could we put it under Responsibilities as a bullet? It's not a duty but a condition of employment. The instructions: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." They gave examples but not exclusive? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. So we should not create other headings like Travel. We need to fold travel info into maybe Responsibilities or About the role as a sentence. But it's not a duty; maybe we can put it under Responsibilities as a bullet: "Expected travel of approximately 20% (domestic and international)". That seems okay.
Similarly, we need to preserve the hybrid work schedule info; we can put under Schedule section.
Now, we need to decide which sections to include.
We have substantive content for:
- About the role (intro)
- Responsibilities (duties list)
- Requirements (Required Skills & Experience)
- Qualifications (Preferred Skills & Experience) - could be Qualifications
- Skills (maybe we could split Required Skills & Experience into Requirements and Skills? But they'd be similar. Better to have Requirements for required, Qualifications for preferred, and maybe Skills for something else? Not needed. Could combine Required Skills & Experience into Requirements, and Preferred into Qualifications. Then we might not need Skills section. But we need to avoid thin sections. If we have only About, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule that's 7 sections. That's okay.
But we need to check if we have content for Skills separate from Requirements. The posting has Required Skills & Experience and Preferred Skills & Experience. So we can map Required to Requirements, Preferred to Qualifications. No separate Skills needed.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not include empty sections.
Now we need to format.
- About the role: About the role
then
About the role
thenwith the intro paragraph(s). Might need to split into multiple paragraphs? Could combine into one
. Ensure we preserve all substantive information: we need to keep the sentences about Itron innovating, join us, the role responsibilities, bridging teams, etc. Let's capture that. We need to remove duplicated lines: there is some duplication? Not seeing. Now Responsibilities: we need to list each duty as
- . The duties are many bullet points after "Duties & Responsibilities". Let's extract them:
List:
1. Own and evolve the market-facing strategy, positioning, messaging architecture, and value proposition for the Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market trends, and corporate growth objectives.
2. Develop a cohesive portfolio narrative that translates products, technologies, and data-driven capabilities into customer-centric solutions addressing utility challenges and strategic priorities.
3. Define and package integrated solutions that connect technology investments to utility business outcomes, including grid reliability, affordability, DER integration, decarbonization, grid modernization, customer engagement, resilience, and operational efficiency.
4. Partner collaboratively with Product Management, Business Units, Corporate Marketing, Industry Strategy, Sales, and Customer Success teams to drive portfolio alignment, launch readiness, and market impact.
5. Lead portfolio-level go-to-market strategies, including market segmentation, target buyer personas, campaign themes, value messaging, analyst relations, customer references, and sales enablement programs.
6. Create and maintain executive narratives, solution presentations, seller playbooks, discovery frameworks, messaging libraries, and business-value-driven content that supports complex solution selling.
7. Serve as an authentic and accountable portfolio evangelist, representing the company with customers, partners, analysts, industry associations, and executive stakeholders.
8. Lead market intelligence and competitive analysis efforts to ensure portfolio positioning remains differentiated, relevant, and aligned with the evolving utility technology landscape.
9. Identify emerging industry trends, regulatory drivers, customer priorities, and technology innovations that influence portfolio strategy and commercial opportunities.
10. Work closely with strategic account teams to support executive customer engagements, business outcome discussions, and enterprise solution strategies.
11. Establish and monitor key portfolio performance metrics, using data-driven insights to continuously optimize messaging, market engagement, and go-to-market effectiveness.
12. Foster an agile, collaborative, and innovative culture that encourages cross-functional partnership, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
We need to ensure we keep all.
Now Requirements (Required Skills & Experience):
List:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, Energy Systems, Communications, or a related field.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Product Marketing, Solution Marketing, Product Management, Portfolio Strategy, Industry Strategy, Go-to-Market Leadership, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success developing portfolio-level positioning, solution messaging, executive value propositions, and market narratives across multiple products, platforms, or business units.
- Strong understanding of electric utility operations and digital transformation initiatives, including Grid Modernization, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Distributed Intelligence, Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Utility Software, Analytics, or Grid Edge technologies.
- Experience supporting enterprise B2B solution sales organizations and creating customer-focused messaging that drives business-value-led conversations.
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams while balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to executive, technical, and business audiences.
- Experience conducting market research, competitive intelligence, customer analysis, and industry trend assessments to support strategic decision-making.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities.
- Demonstrated accountability for delivering measurable business outcomes and commercial impact.
Now Qualifications (Preferred Skills & Experience):
- Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Marketing, Engineering, Energy Management, or a related discipline.
- Experience within utility technology, smart grid, DER management, Grid Edge Intelligence, IoT, SaaS, data analytics, AI-driven utility solutions, or related energy technology sectors.
- Proven experience leading portfolio marketing, solutions strategy, or go-to-market functions within a utilities, energy, industrial technology, or enterprise software organization.
- Experience engaging with utility executives, industry analysts, regulators, and strategic industry organizations.
- Familiarity with utility business planning, asset management, customer programs, grid operations