Product Manager II

Description
The Position

We are seeking a Product Manager II to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

What You Will Contribute
As our Product Manager II, you will be a Product Management team member and immediately impact Uplight's development efforts, market position, and revenue.

• Lead 1-2 development pods (teams) executing in an Agile Scrum environment, writing all User Stories, running refinement sessions, and supporting planning to enable execution against a defined product strategy.
• Ensure the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the pod will work on for the next quarter.
• Be the voice of the customer for the pod.
• Work cross-functionally within the organization to gain stakeholder alignment, support product launches, and provide technical support for uncovered issues.
• Involvement in all stages of product development from exploration to delivery – collaborating with highly skilled data scientists, engineers, designers, and other key stakeholders along the way.

What You Get To Do

• Contribute to the product vision, strategy and roadmap
• Work closely with a cross-functional team (including Product Design, Consumer Operations, Information Systems, Accounting, Reporting and Implementation) to ensure product goals, deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Work collaboratively and be constructive when communicating and interacting with co-workers. A contributor who seeks solutions.
• Communicate and demonstrate the business outcomes associated with a product epic
• Maintain a solid understanding of product capabilities, gaps, and short-term roadmap, and be well versed in how these solutions can be applied to solve customer problems
• Own the pod teams backlog: Work with internal and external stakeholders to triage and prioritize the backlog
• Decompose Epics into stories, prioritize them, and clearly communicate them to the development pod. Ensure stories meet the acceptance criteria when they are delivered.
• Drive the sprint iterations, and actively participate in all agile ceremonies including sprint retros, refinement and planning.
• Own the responsibility for collecting, filtering and disseminating requirements through the various touchpoints for specific product(s).
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure that cohesive solutions are built across Uplight's platform.

Skills and experience are necessary, but we hire on value alignment first, so if you feel you would be a good fit with us, still consider applying.

What you bring to Uplight

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager shipping great products for a leading consumer, SaaS, or enterprise software company
• Ability to facilitate, understand and put forth technical design concepts, APIs, DB querying.
• Ability to write and express complex ideas clearly and succinctly
• Excellent analytical skills, teamwork, organization, and communication ability
• Ability to drive initiatives and ideas from start to finish
• Deep experience with Agile Scrum development processes
• Proficiency with Jira
• A strong work ethic
• Ability to be decisive and operate in a fast-paced environment
• Engaging and personable
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Entrepreneurial, business-focused mindset

Bonus Points

• An online slide deck showcasing a product/feature of which you are particularly proud and the process used to launch it
• SaaS experience
• Utility or Energy industry experience
• Certified Scrum Product Owner

Qualifications

• Technical and/or management education, PG preferable, not mandatory.

Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religion (including head coverings), age, sex, national origin, caste, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.