Senior Product Development Manager, Clean Energy & DERs

Puget Sound Energy; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Puget Sound Energy is seeking two Product Development Managers to drive new products and services in DERs, Transportation Electrification, and related clean energy initiatives. You will lead the full lifecycle from concept to launch, building business cases and coordinating cross-functional teams.

You will develop market insights, evaluate demonstrations, and set roadmaps while ensuring alignment with executive goals and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, finance, engineering or related field
• 7 years' experience in leading/implementing complex multi-disciplined market/program/product analysis, research, evaluation, or product launch
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver complex customer-facing products or projects
• Excellent organizational, analysis, and problem solving skills including applying analysis and statistical methods to study complex and unique business issues
• Proven ability to lead or oversee financial modeling
• Proven ability to identify and use advanced customer and marketing analytics
• Proven project management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to synthesize data and other information into clear, actionable deliverables
• Ability to build trust and and value-based relationships with employees at all levels of internal and external organizations.
• Ability to effectively manage conflict
• Advanced skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, other presentation and analytical tools

Responsibilities

• Develops and champions product concepts: Identifies customer challenges and wants, current trends, other products in the marketplace.
• Anticipates future needs of customers.
• Develops and manages product roadmaps through regular engagement with external customers and industry stakeholders.
• Leads internal teams to bring product concept through internal and external approvals and to launch.
• May continue to manage products after launch.
• Identifies market potential and pricing: Leads cross-functional team to quantitatively test market for potential adoption of product concept.
• Identifies beneficial changes to product concept based on customer research.
• Leads effort to measure acceptable price point for product in marketplace.
• Leads operational planning, including vendor and partnership management: Leads team to identify best means to deliver product to customers, including customer experience, sales process, technology requirements, personnel and equipment for operations and maintenance, mechanisms for delivery to customers, billing processes, and customer service.
• Identifies, builds relationships with, and negotiates contracts with external partners or vendors as necessary to deliver all aspects of product.
• Establishes KPIs and reporting for performance of product line.
• Leads development of profit and loss statements and forecasts: Based on quantified market research, discussions with potential vendors, and knowledge of PSE and other programs, leads development of detailed financial proformas to support internal executive or board approvals, corporate financial forecasts, or regulatory submittals.
• Market and sales planning: Leads team to identify launch and follow-on customer segments, go-to-market strategy, advertising strategy, and set sales targets.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Excel

Communication

Problem Solving

Financial modeling

Analytics

Project management

Data synthesis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Puget Sound Energy is seeking two Product Development Managers to drive new products and services in DERs, Transportation Electrification, and related clean energy initiatives. You will lead the full lifecycle from concept to launch, building business cases and coordinating cross-functional teams.

You will develop market insights, evaluate demonstrations, and set roadmaps while ensuring alignment with executive goals and regulatory requirements.