Manager of Product Management

Manager of Product Management

Company: Next Era Energy

Next Era Analytics offers energy consulting services using industry-leading scientific analysis for planning, siting, forecasting and optimizing all forms of energy projects. Our optimization and analytics platforms integrate open-source technologies to leverage massive, diverse sets of utility operating data. This enables rapid development of operational solutions. Applying expertise in advanced mathematics, data and physical sciences, we solve some of the hardest problems facing the energy industry.

Position Specific Description

The Manager of Product Managers serves as a strategic partner and key influencer to senior leadership across Next Era Energy, responsible for building and maintaining executive relationships throughout the enterprise to champion product vision, negotiate priorities, and align cross-functional initiatives with corporate strategic objectives. This role demands exceptional ability to communicate with and influence C‑suite executives, Vice Presidents, and senior directors across vertical business units, translating complex technical concepts into compelling business narratives that drive strategic decision‑making and secure executive sponsorship for transformative initiatives.

Leading a team of Product Managers, this leader is responsible for coaching, mentoring, and developing product management talent, establishing best practices and frameworks that enable the team to excel at customer discovery, problem‑solving, and delivering innovative SaaS solutions from ideation through customer delivery. The successful candidate will guide their team in working directly with customers to uncover underlying business challenges and pain points rather than simply collecting feature requests, then developing solutions that address root business problems, while continuously engaging senior stakeholders to ensure alignment, communicate risks and opportunities, and secure the resources and organizational support needed for success.

This position requires a leader who can balance hands‑on coaching and team development with strategic executive engagement, leveraging their executive presence and credibility to facilitate strategic conversations, present consolidated product roadmaps to leadership forums, and navigate organizational dynamics to remove barriers and accelerate outcomes for their team. As a mentor, subject matter expert, and people leader, this individual will influence product strategy at the highest levels while building a high‑performing team committed to Next Era Analytics’ rapid, low-bureaucracy, AI-driven SaaS development that delivers measurable enterprise value.

This position may own key initiatives within a workstream pertaining to a specific functional area that may be ongoing and simultaneous at different stages of the product cycle. Moreover, this position provides mentorship and management to a subset of the product team within the same domain. Employees may balance direct contribution and ownership of product discovery and facilitating product delivery and are accountable for the shared success of reports and domain.

• Write clear and concise product briefs, epics, stories, and tasks that provide detailed requirements for the development and QA teams with no supervision (or proven track record to mentor others)
• Own and/or oversee research and product discovery across internal business units and external parties and document requirements
• Oversee vendor and 3rd party integrations
• Subject matter expert of the competitor landscape, market trends, and customer/partner needs as it pertains to a specific domain
• Demonstrate ability to define product vision, and execute product strategy
• Demonstrate ability to support and influence discussions at the executive level
• Manage and mentor a subset of the product team, specific to a domain
• Recognize individuals for talent and performance, and promote the shared success of the team
• Manage team growth: work with HR on candidate profiles, vet PM candidates, conduct interviews, collect interview feedback, and make hiring decisions
• Execute core people…