Principal Product Manager

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for one of the most critical GridCARE products.
• Define how complex grid capabilities are translated into reliable, scalable customer and partner workflows.
• Lead integration across internal products and relevant external systems.
• Translate complex operational, market, and customer requirements into clear product specifications and execution plans.
• Drive prioritization across multiple product initiatives, balancing customer needs, technical constraints, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
• Partner closely with engineering to deliver reliable, scalable, real-time operational systems.
• Define capabilities for dispatch, orchestration, monitoring, verification, and performance management.
• Shape products that incorporate optimization, simulation, forecasting, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Define requirements for monitoring, compliance, auditability, and performance measurement.
• Identify opportunities to use AI tools and workflows to accelerate product discovery, prototyping, documentation, analysis, and internal operations.
• Ensure products can operate reliably at utility and enterprise scale.
• Work directly with customers, utilities, market participants, and strategic partners to understand operational and commercial requirements.
• Represent GridCARE as a credible product leader in customer discussions, industry engagements, and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, power systems, commercial, and executive leadership teams.
• Author product requirements, business cases, strategic roadmaps, and product success metrics.
• Mentor other product managers and help scale GridCARE's product organization.

Qualifications

• Must Have: 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of highly technical and complex software products. Proven track record building and scaling products from early stages through broad production deployment. Experience with complex systems involving advanced algorithms, optimization, simulation, orchestration, machine learning, or operational decision-making. Experience building real-time products that ingest, process, and act on live operational data. Deep understanding of power systems and grid operations. Strong understanding of energy and power markets. Familiarity with relevant industry standards, regulatory frameworks, and operational requirements. Practical fluency with AI tools and workflows, with the ability to use AI to improve product discovery, analysis, prototyping, communication, and execution. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, executive leadership, customers, utilities, and external partners. Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and leading cross-functional initiatives with significant complexity.
• Nice to Have: Experience working directly with utilities as customers or partners. Experience with virtual power plants, demand response, DERMS, EMS, grid operations software, energy-market software, or related systems. Experience at early-stage or high-growth startups. Background in electrical engineering, power systems, computer science, operations research, or a related technical field. Experience building products that leverage machine learning, AI agents, or AI-enabled workflows.

Pay

$200,000–$240,000 base salary