Director, Grid Planning Product Management - GridUnity

About the role

Reporting to GridUnity’s Strategic Product Officer, this leadership role within the Product Team is responsible for evolving the strategy and roadmap for the grid planning offerings that the GridUnity Intelligence Platform provides to our national customer base. You will partner with GridUnity’s larger Product team, power system engineering, and customer growth teams to ensure each planning product module leverages the platform efficiently and delivers valuable, differentiated products to our customers.

This is a player-coach role: you will set the strategy, own the backlog hands-on, and build the team while driving product metrics to ensure customer value is maximized.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the multi-year strategic roadmap for grid planning product offerings and coordinate delivery timing with Product Management leadership.
• Engage with customers to understand needs, test and validate concepts, and confirm alignment with real market problems.
• Evaluate product enhancements to drive selection of those with strategic value, including build/buy/partner and sequencing tradeoffs.
• Set grid planning product success metrics and report against them; course-correct or discontinue initiatives that underperform.

Backlog & Requirements

• Define success for each feature before build and measure outcomes post-launch.
• Own the grid planning backlog: write user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge cases.
• Act as the primary decision-maker for the development team on scope, sequencing, and acceptance.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management

• Manage competing stakeholder demands across sales, customer success, executives, and engineering.
• Keep executive leadership and stakeholders informed on status, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Build trust with engineering and customer growth teams and provide subject matter expertise to sales (RFPs, demos, training).

Leadership & Influence

• Operate with high autonomy and collaborate deeply across the organization.
• Mentor and manage a growing team while fostering growth across the broader Product Management team.
• Collaborate with product leaders to refine product development processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in B2B enterprise software organizations, including 5+ years in Product Management leading product owners.
• Degree in Power Systems Engineering (MBA and PE license are a plus).
• Track record of successful SaaS-based products developed and launched through your leadership.
• Solid grounding in power systems planning: load flow, contingency analysis, and familiarity with tools like PSS®E, PowerWorld, TARA, PSCAD.
• Energy/utility industry experience, including transmission planning processes and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and executive audiences.
• In-depth understanding of and experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and shifting priorities.

Eligibility Requirement

This position may involve access to data and systems subject to U.S. critical infrastructure protection regulations, restricted to individuals who qualify as “U.S. persons” (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, asylees, or refugees).