Remote Senior Product Manager – Utility Asset Planning

IFS; Itasca (IL); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K with company contribution

Flexible paid time off

Tuition assistance

Community involvement opportunities

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Copperleaf Asset Investment Planning platform, serving 140+ enterprise utilities worldwide. You will blend customer insight with product strategy, spending 25% of time with customers and 75% driving strategic roadmaps with Design, Engineering, and Customer Success teams.

You will lead market analyses, financial projections, and a compelling business case, while coordinating with partners and global stakeholders to deliver value across regulated

Qualifications

• 3-6+ years of product management experience in B2B enterprise software.
• Proven customer discovery and co-creation capability; comfort working embedded with customers.
• Strong collaboration with Design and UX teams; demonstrated experience in user-centric product development.
• Understanding of regulated, asset-intensive industries or demonstrated ability to develop this knowledge quickly.
• Comfort with long enterprise sales cycles (12-24 months) and regulated organization stakeholder complexity.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Skilled in financial modeling, market analysis, and business case creation.
• Experience working with agile development methodologies.
• Willingness to travel 25% for customer engagement and conferences across global regions.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and operating across time zones.
• University degree or equivalent professional qualifications in engineering, business, or relevant technical field.
• Direct experience in utilities, infrastructure, or asset-intensive industries in PM, product strategy, or customer-facing roles.
• Understanding of regulatory compliance frameworks (FERC, EPA, Ofgem, AEMO) or asset lifecycle management.
• Experience with financial modeling, capital planning, or ROI analysis in enterprise contexts.
• Experience presenting at user conferences or leading customer advisory boards.
• Experience working with partner ecosystems, systems integrators, or channels.
• Fully remote role with 25% travel to customer sites across global regions and attendance at user summits and IFS Connect events
• Opportunity to own product strategy for a mission-critical platform serving 140+ enterprise utilities globally
• Direct customer and partner engagement across regions with infrastructure operators managing millions of people's essential services
• Deep domain expertise in regulated, asset-intensive industries: rare and genuinely valuable
• Exposure to diverse regulatory frameworks and market contexts across four major regions
• Collaborative environment with experienced distributed global teams

Responsibilities

• Conduct customer discovery and co-creation at 140+ enterprise accounts across utilities and asset-intensive sectors.
• Work forward-deployed with customers (25% travel) across global regions.
• Engage with customers at regional and global user summits and IFS Connect events to gather feedback, validate roadmap direction, and strengthen relationships.
• Work directly with our partner ecosystem including systems integrators and consultants.
• Partner with Design and UX teams to ensure features are intuitive, user-centric, and solve real problems for regulated utilities.
• Own the commercial and strategic case for your product area: market analysis, competitive positioning, financial projections, and customer value models.
• Translate customer and partner evidence into a prioritized, outcome-driven roadmap that balances customer needs, business impact, and market opportunity.
• Define clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria based on customer validation.
• Drive go-to-market readiness through positioning, sales plays, partner enablement, and customer success support tailored to utilities' long sales cycles.
• Close commitments on agreed dates, hold quality standards, and make decisions about when to ship versus iterate.

Skills

Customer discovery

Co-creation

UX collaboration

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Financial modeling

Market analysis

Business case development

Agile methodologies

Travel readiness

Cross-regional collaboration

Education

University degree

Job description

IFS is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Copperleaf Asset Investment Planning platform, serving 140+ enterprise utilities worldwide. You will blend customer insight with product strategy, spending 25% of time with customers and 75% driving strategic roadmaps with Design, Engineering, and Customer Success teams.

You will lead market analyses, financial projections, and a compelling business case, while coordinating with partners and global stakeholders to deliver value across regulated