Hybrid Product Owner

at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Job title: Product Owner
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $132,000 - $226,000 per year
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Oakland, United States

About the role

• Product Owner leading IT enhancements and governance for PG&E’s energy efficiency programs. Collaborating cross-functionally to align business needs and technology solutions with regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Leading the BEEP team’s IT Enhancement Governance team, made up of cross-functional members from across the business.
• Acts a primary point of contact for TE or IT questions about case priority or readiness and bridges the gap to business owners on specific case requirements.
• Acts as the Product Manager within PG&E’s Value Management Office processes, which involves connecting with business users to deliver maximum value.
• Defines product vision aligned with business objectives.
• Develops and maintains product roadmap based on business/market needs.
• Establishes Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to measure product success.
• Facilitates determination of business value of work.
• Managing and prioritizing the Agile team’s backlog, with input from the business owners.
• Ensures features have clear benefit hypotheses and acceptance criteria.
• Accepts completed features based on value realization.
• Presents vision and priorities during Program Increment (PI) Planning.

Requirements

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Five years of related experience (energy efficiency, program management, operations, regulatory/policy, product ownership)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Desired)
• Experience with PG&E’s Energy Insight Salesforce implementation, or another similar Salesforce implementation (Desired)
• Knowledge of Agile software development principles, values, concepts, methods, best practices, and techniques (Desired)
• Ability to influence and lead behavior change (Desired)
• Experience effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization (Desired)
• Experience in building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives (Desired)
• Ability to apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals (Desired)
• Knowledge of workforce planning analytics theories, concepts, methods, best practices, and techniques (Desired)

Benefits

• PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs