Product Manager – Energy Digital Transformation

PPL Corporation; Lower Providence Township (PA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

PPL Corporation in Allentown, PA is seeking a Product Manager to own the enterprise product vision and align teams to deliver high-value business outcomes. You will partner with engineering and design to solve complex problems with digital solutions that drive customer value.

The role requires strong curiosity, empathy, and servant leadership, with emphasis on data-driven decision making and collaboration across the organization. This hybrid role may require on-site presence at local offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of related work experience.
• 3+ years leadership experience with cross functional teams.
• Experience leading product and/or process improvements.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to balance short term needs with long-term strategy.
• Ability to challenge the status quo.
• Strong business and financial acumen to facilitate strategic planning, business reviews and opportunity assessments.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence through data, insights, and storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision for our enterprise and are responsible for aligning your team around delivery of high value business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain discovery and delivery backlog and roadmaps. Tirelessly study our business, users, and customers to understand needs, pain points and business constraints.
• Listening to what users and customer say but, more importantly, observing what they do to uncover valuable insights and opportunities.
• Uses a qualitative and quantitative data driven approach to shape priorities and feature definition.
• Mine numerous sources of data to validate problems and opportunities for solutioning.
• Ensuring we are solving the right problems and that the problems are worth solving.
• Work with engineering and design during discovery to identify and validate solutions to prioritized problems and ensure risks to value, viability, feasibility, and useability are addressed up front.
• Serve as the Product Owner on scrum delivery teams, working with engineering and design during delivery to resolve in-sprint issues and challenges.
• Direct supervision of Product Analysts. Responsible for leadership development, coaching and success.
• Responsible for product success at the enterprise level, ensuring user adoption and collaborating with stakeholders and other technology and product teams to maximize business value and success.
• Works with and aligns stakeholders across the enterprise on strategies, managing conflict and ensuring transparent prioritization of needs and roadmap status.
• Works with the product team and portfolio leader to define and align product team OKRs.
• Performs analysis on technical, operational, and market considerations for new product development and differentiation.
• Act as the voice of the product(s) to senior management and stakeholders.
• Builds and leverages deep business domain expertise to identify opportunities to improve or expand digital capabilities aligned with our strategy.
• Identify emerging market and technology needs.
• May be assigned an Electric Utilities emergency and storm role. This is a special assignment that comes into play during storms and other emergencies when the company needs to restore power or respond to other issues affecting customer service.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Communication

Data-driven decisions

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

PPL Corporation in Allentown, PA is seeking a Product Manager to own the enterprise product vision and align teams to deliver high-value business outcomes. You will partner with engineering and design to solve complex problems with digital solutions that drive customer value.

The role requires strong curiosity, empathy, and servant leadership, with emphasis on data-driven decision making and collaboration across the organization. This hybrid role may require on-site presence at local offices.