Product Manager, Principal

PG&E Corporation

Oakland, CA

Full Time

Senior

28 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Principal Product Manager role involves developing and executing business plans that deliver demand-side products to PG&E's customers by aligning customer needs, market potential, technology readiness, and regulatory policies. The position provides product strategy, content, and evaluation through customer insights, testing concepts, developing prototypes, defining features, building solutions, and managing a continuous improvement cycle to enhance efficacy and cost-effectiveness. It also involves managing product portfolios, supporting regulatory activities, and assessing market and technology trends within the engineering, planning, and strategy business unit in Oakland.

Key Responsibilities

Articulate product goals and mission to key stakeholder teams to assure development of a product that meets market needs.
Manage all key company stakeholders and oversee development milestones with transparency; involve necessary stakeholders for sign-off processes at each milestone.
Manage existing behavior change products, develop new products, and sunset products at the end of their lifecycle.
Review all product deliverables to ensure the offering is complete, meets specific needs, and includes optimal materials both in the box and online to assure customer satisfaction.
Support marketing and sales as the subject matter expert, providing content and technology information to delivery channels.
Support regulatory activities by writing testimony, responding to data requests, meeting with regulators and other IOUs, and providing content for regulatory filings.
Test product or service offerings in the market or in simulation.
Assess competitive offerings and substitutes through market surveillance and identify the unique, sustainable value of PG&E's offerings.
Develop business cases to identify principal technical and commercial levers that drive adoption decisions.
Develop policies and procedures for the product.
Develop product briefs detailing incentive levels, technology information and verification, service offering, and high-level go-to-market strategy.
Develop RFPs and IT estimates for work related to product improvements.
Ensure product attribution by developing strategies to evolve calculators and other methods for defining product achievements in the marketplace.
Identify and evaluate existing and emerging energy-related technologies and/or products.
Identify product improvement needs based on customer research, marketing and sales feedback, measurement and evaluation reports, and internal ideation and gap analysis.