Product Development Manager

Origin Energy; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Origin Energy in Melbourne is seeking a Product Development Manager to create, validate and launch new residential energy products tailored to customers’ needs and home electrification goals. You’ll lead across discovery, validation, delivery and ongoing optimisation, collaborating with design, engineering, digital, and commercial teams.

You’ll translate customer insights and market trends into scalable products that support growth, profitability and customer satisfaction in a dynamic energy

Qualifications

• Experience creating and launching new products from initial discovery, not just managing established products.
• Strong product-development fundamentals across customer discovery, validation, experimentation, delivery, launch and optimisation.
• Ability to articulate who the customer is, the problem, and how evidence shaped a product you launched.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of new products across solar, battery storage and in-home EV charging.
• Build deep understanding of target customers and test assumptions using qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Validate desirability, viability, feasibility and readiness before delivery.
• Shape product strategy, value propositions and roadmaps across customer experience and digital experiences.
• Partner with design, engineering, digital, commercial and operations teams to deliver and continuously improve products.

Skills

Product development

Customer discovery

Cross-functional collaboration

Digital products

Job description

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• Create and launch new residential energy products-not simply manage existing ones
• Lead customer discovery, validation and delivery to solve meaningful customer problems

Join a team that's All Kinds of Useful

At Origin, being useful is more than a tagline - it’s how we approach work every day. As a collective, we’re a team that thrives on finding better ways, working together, and owning our impact. From powering homes to delivering award-winning internet and helping to lead Australia’s energy transition. If you’re driven by purpose and excited to be part of something bigger, we’d love to have you on the journey.

About the role

Energy is moving beyond a commodity, with products increasingly shaping how customers live, electrify, generate, store and manage their energy. As Product Development Manager, you’ll create, validate and launch new residential energy products tailored to customers’ lifestyle and home-electrification needs. This is a genuine new-product development role. You’ll start by understanding who the customer is and the problem that needs to be solved, then lead the product from discovery and validation through to delivery, launch and ongoing optimisation. Working across customer experience, digital, hardware, technology and commercial models, you’ll translate customer needs, market insights and business strategy into scalable products that support growth, profitability and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the development of new products across solar, battery storage and in-home electric vehicle charging.
• Build a deep understanding of target customers, identify their problems and test assumptions using qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Validate customer desirability, commercial viability, technical feasibility and operational readiness before progressing to delivery.
• Shape product strategy, value propositions and roadmaps across customer experience, purchase models, digital experiences and supporting technology.
• Partner with design, engineering, digital, commercial and operational teams to deliver, launch and continuously improve products.

You’ll also develop in-life tips, updates and recommendations through the Origin app and personalised communications, helping customers gain greater value from their energy services and connected devices.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated experience creating and launching new products from initial discovery—not only managing established products.
• Strong product-development fundamentals across customer discovery, validation, experimentation, delivery, launch and optimisation.
• The ability to clearly explain who the customer was, the problem being solved and how customer evidence shaped a product you launched.
• Experience developing digital products and breaking complex customer or business problems into testable, deliverable increments.
• Commercial acumen and confidence using customer feedback, product data and market insights to make decisions.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to complement the strengths of a diverse cross-functional team.

Experience with connected energy products—including solar, battery storage, electric vehicles or IoT devices—would be highly regarded.

Origin - Where good change happens

At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where everyone is welcome, and all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans and gender diverse.

Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s a little about us: https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/careers/

Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing.

Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.