Senior Director, Product Management

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership and establish programs and strategies for identification and development of product opportunities for NYPA.
• Manage stage business process, ensuring that all internal stakeholders are engaged.
• Facilitate the strategic planning process by identifying high impact opportunities and structuring tradeoff analyses.
• Oversee the development of competitive intelligence and performs competitive analyses.
• Lead product teams consisting of technical, environmental, commercial/marketing and financial disciplines in developing products.
• Provide oversight and coaching for product enhancements.
• Ensure that product managers are properly documenting product requirements, user stories, and artifacts to support the product development process.
• Ensure that product managers follow a consistent approach to monitor product adoption and use and collect customer feedback.
• Oversee and enforce a consistent, objective process to prioritize and select product enhancements.
• Participate in industry events, trainings, and conferences as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Successful track record of products developed under candidate’s leadership.
• Exceptional communication skills including strong business writing and verbal presentation abilities.
• Strong leadership skills with the proven ability to lead and execute strategic business initiatives and provide tactical planning.
• Comprehensive understanding of NYPA’s business model, financial processes and its customers.
• Strong knowledge of the energy utility customer products.
• High degree of motivation, flexibility, and reliability.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with colleagues and external organizations from various cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to direct the management of multiple large projects, provide regular updates to senior management and deliver quality work under time constraints.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and ability to express ideas clearly, concisely and logically, with advanced business savvy.
• Ability to identify and evaluate “transformational” and/or inorganic growth ideas.
• Ability to independently build, maintain and evaluate complex financial models.
• Strong analytical and management skills.

Education, Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Economics, Finance, Strategic Planning or the equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or the equivalent, preferred.
• Advanced degree in Business Administration or related field, preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience with energy project/business development.
• Minimum of 3 years of people management/leadership experience.
• Experience working in or with government agencies, preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel required 15% of the time.
• Valid NY State driver’s license.
• Ability to visit customer sites.