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Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.
Itron is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Manager - DERMS to lead the development and delivery of our Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) product. This critical role will bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution, ensuring the product meets global market demands and customer requirements, and supports the transition to a decentralized, decarbonized, and digitized energy grid.
As the Product Owner, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and customers, to define product features, prioritize development work, and deliver innovative solutions that enable grid optimization, DER integration, and advanced grid management.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Agile Product Development
- Communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business objectives and market trends in the DERMS space.
- Act as the Product Owner across multiple Agile team, ensuring consistent delivery of product increments that meet defined goals.
- Participate in sprint planning and grooming sessions to support development teams and remove roadblocks.
- Collaborate with QA teams to define test criteria and ensure high-quality releases.
- Translate customer and stakeholder needs into clear product requirements and user stories.
Backlog Management
- Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it is well-organized, prioritized, and aligned with product goals.
- Work with stakeholders to refine and prioritize features, balancing business value, technical feasibility, and customer needs.
- Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.
Collaboration and Communication
- Serve as the primary liaison between engineering teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with product managers, UX/UI designers, and technical leads to deliver high-quality product increments.
- Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders, including senior leadership and customers.
Market and Customer Engagement
- Engage with customers, partners, and utilities to gather feedback, validate use cases, and refine product offerings.
- Stay informed about market dynamics, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies in distributed energy resources and grid management.
- Represent the DERMS product in customer meetings, industry events, and webinars to promote adoption and gather market insights.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in product management, solution architecture or a related role, preferably in the energy, utility, or software sectors.
- Strong understanding of DERMS, distributed energy resources, grid optimization, and related technologies.
- Proven experience working in Agile development environments and managing product backlogs.
- Familiarity with OpenADR, IEEE standards, and other protocols related to DERMS.
- Knowledge of advanced energy technologies, including energy storage, VPPs, demand response, and DER integration.
- Experience working with utilities, ISOs, or energy retailers.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Advanced Technical Expertise: Proficiency in advanced energy technologies such as energy storage, Virtual Power Plants (VPPs), demand response, and DER integration.
- Industry Standards Knowledge: Familiarity with OpenADR, IEEE standards, and other protocols related to DERMS.
- Agile Methodologies: Extensive experience working in Agile development environments, including sprint planning, backlog management, and user story creation.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to collaborate with utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs), energy retailers, and other stakeholders.
- Market Insight: Strong understanding of market dynamics, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies in distributed energy resources and grid management.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills to effectively liaise between engineering teams, product managers, UX/UI designers, and technical leads.
Benefits Information:
This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule, and more! This position is eligible for our annual bonus program.
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Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. In the end, you may be just who we are looking for!
The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.
Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact a recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.
Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions. We provide smart networks, software, services, meters, and sensors to better manage electricity, gas, water and city services. We are dedicated to creating a more resourceful world.
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Itron, Inc.
401(k)
Mar 18, 2025