Manager, Product Owner, Infrastructure

National Grid plc; City of Syracuse (NY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Generous pension

Private medical insurance

Job summary

National Grid plc is seeking a Manager for its technology product management team in a hybrid role based in Syracuse, NY or Waltham, MA. You will lead product owners and analysts, shaping digital customer journeys and ensuring secure, scalable delivery across channels.

The role focuses on aligning business goals with customer needs, delivering measurable improvements in customer experience and operational efficiency, while guiding AI-enabled initiatives and coordinating with partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related technical or business field.
• Minimum of 7+ years of relevant work experience in digital product management, journey management or related field.
• Experience leading people and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear features, stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong knowledge of product ownership, agile delivery and roadmap planning.
• Understanding of utility or large-scale enterprise operations and safety/compliance considerations.
• Experience communicating with executive, business and technical audiences and using metrics to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and champion changes within the Customer Digital Experience portfolio.
• Define and communicate product and journey roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Own and prioritize product backlog across journeys and platforms with clear acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, operations, analytics and partners to ensure secure, scalable design.
• Report progress, risks and benefits to leadership across business units.
• Drive efficiencies to reduce cost to serve and improve customer experience across channels.
• Develop relationships with stakeholders to enable timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Coach and develop product owners and analysts in agile practices and career growth.
• Embed accessibility, privacy, cybersecurity and regulatory readiness into planning and delivery.
• Leverage customer feedback and analytics to identify friction and validate value.
• Apply AI responsibly to improve outcomes, insights and forecast workload.

Skills

Leadership

Agile product mgmt

Backlog management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Data-driven decision making

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Twilio

Cisco

NICE

APIs

Job description

National Grid is hiring a Manager for our technology product management team. This position can be based out of our Syracuse NY or Waltham MA offices. This is a hybrid role with a split between office and work from home.

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live.

The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

The Manager, Product Management and Journey Leadership provides daily direction, prioritization and leadership for customer and agent-facing capabilities within the Customer Digital Experience portfolio. This role leads product owners and analysts who support scalable, secure and reliable digital, operational and platform capabilities that may include contact center technologies, workforce management, IVR, agent interaction management, customer communications, digital self-service, workflow enablement and future customer journeys.

The role is accountable for connecting business objectives, customer and colleague needs, journey outcomes, operational requirements and technology delivery into a clear product strategy and roadmap. The Manager ensures work is delivered within committed timelines, cost expectations, quality standards, risk controls and safety requirements, while improving customer experience, agent effectiveness, digital self-service, operational efficiency, platform resilience and the responsible use of AI where it creates measurable value.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead, own and champion change within the Customer Digital Experience portfolio, including operational and organizational change that supports business performance, customer value and modern ways of working.


• Define, maintain and communicate product and journey roadmaps, ensuring priorities are clear, measurable and connected to business objectives, customer outcomes, operational value, technical health and dependency management.


• Own and prioritize the product backlog across assigned journeys and platforms, translating business needs, regulatory requirements, platform constraints, colleague pain points and customer insights into clear features, user stories and acceptance criteria.


• Partner with engineering, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, operations, analytics, AI enablement teams, vendors and product peers to support secure, scalable and resilient solution design, including digital channels, contact center capabilities, workflow, knowledge, identity, data, monitoring and release management considerations.


• Report progress, risks, decisions and benefits from process and product improvements to leadership across Customer, Gas, Electric and jurisdictional business units in Massachusetts, Upstate New York and Downstate New York.


• Support delivery of product enhancements with clear objectives and key results, prioritizing efficiency opportunities that reduce cost to serve and improve the Customer Experience across channels.


• Develop and maintain strong relationships with product teams, National Grid leadership, technology partners and business stakeholders to facilitate timely information flow, decision-making and issue resolution.


• Lead, motivate and develop product owners and analysts by setting clear expectations, coaching on agile product practices, strengthening performance-based culture and supporting career growth.


• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and value for money by challenging current processes, simplifying ways of working, improving estimation and sequencing, and using data to guide investment decisions.


• Embed accessibility, privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory readiness and operational controls into product planning and delivery, ensuring digital solutions are inclusive, compliant and safe for customers and the business.


• Use customer feedback, digital analytics, operational data and platform performance insights to identify friction, track outcomes, inform prioritization and validate delivered value.


• Apply AI in targeted, responsible ways to improve outcomes, such as surfacing customer and agent insights, summarizing interaction themes, identifying journey friction, recommending next-best actions, automating routine analysis, strengthening knowledge retrieval and improving forecasting or workload planning where appropriate.


• Partner with Twilio, Cisco, NICE, in-house Verizon team members and other delivery partners to manage scope, dependencies, quality, service levels, roadmaps, commercial considerations and performance against commitments.


• Stay current on changing customer expectations, product management practices, journey management methods, contact center technologies, AI-enabled agent support, automation, conversation orchestration, observability, platform modernization and digital operating models.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in engineering, finance, business, computer science, information systems or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.


• Minimum of 7+ years of relevant work experience in digital product management, journey management, technology delivery, customer operations, utility operations or a related field.


• Experience leading people, coaching product talent and managing work across cross-functional delivery teams.


• Demonstrated experience assessing complex activities, evaluating resource needs and managing priorities across multiple business and technical stakeholders.


• In-depth knowledge of product management, product ownership, journey leadership, agile delivery, backlog management, prioritization methods, roadmap planning and outcome-based delivery.


• Good understanding of utility operations, regulated environments and the importance of safety, reliability, compliance and customer trust.


• Working knowledge of modern contact center and infrastructure concepts such as telephony, messaging, cloud services, APIs, identity and access management, data platforms, monitoring/observability, cybersecurity, release management and business continuity.


• Familiarity with practical AI applications, including insight generation, automation, summarization, intelligent search, personalization, forecasting, digital analytics, experimentation, accessibility standards and secure customer data practices.


• Ability to communicate clearly with executive, business and technical audiences, including translating complex issues into decisions, risks, tradeoffs and recommended next steps.


• Experience using metrics and analytics to evaluate product performance, customer behavior, operational efficiency and delivery outcomes.

More Information

$138,000 - $162,000 a year

National Grid will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. You must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

National Grid utilizes an assessment that evaluates the job qualifications/characteristics using AI or statistically based scoring. For more information, please view NYC Local Law 144.

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of protected class. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. National Grid maintains affirmative action programs for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Our employment practices are designed to ensure that all individuals are treated fairly and with respect throughout the hiring process and during employment. National Grid complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and harassment, and we encourage a culture of respect for all.

National Grid operates in both the UK and US, with a broad portfolio of energy businesses dedicated to providing safe, reliable, and sustainable power.

From electricity and gas transmission to advancing clean energy and modernising grids, our work covers every aspect of the energy system.

Our energy flows through absolutely everything we do

Life here at National Grid is more than just our purpose or our values, it’s everything we put into everything we do. It’s our commitment to diversity and inclusion; how we help our employees learn and grow; and how we partner with and support the communities where we live and work. It’s all this, and so much more.

We leverage our collective strengths to do meaningful BIG work so that we can be at the heart of a fair and affordable energy future.

Your salary is reviewed each year against the market for your role, skills, knowledge and experience.

Incentive

Annual performance plan or bonus (depending on your role) rewards your contribution to our success each year.

Retirement

Generous pension plan with company contributions up to 12%.

Private medical insurance for self and family.