Senior Product Owner

WHO WE ARE

GridUnity is the industry leader in interconnection life cycle management, delivering cutting-edge software solutions that eliminate bottlenecks in the interconnection process and accelerate the transition to a more affordable, sustainable, and resilient energy future.

Our Mission

We unite all grid interconnection stakeholders on a single platform that converts centralized data into actionable intelligence and accelerates the transition to a reliable, sustainable, and cost-efficient electric grid.

GridUnity is a trusted partner to leading utilities, grid operators, and policymakers. Our technology solutions tackle the interconnection queue backlog by significantly reducing processing times. Whether cutting transmission interconnection timelines from years to months or enabling distribution applications to be processed within a day, we help accelerate energy projects at every scale.

Our Vision

Energizing the planet with a faster, smarter, and more sustainable grid.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This position starts by reporting to the Director of Product Management and will be a core member of the portfolio team, coordinating day-to-day with another product owner on GridUnity’s portfolio of technology products. You help set the vision for the solution and then keep stakeholders aligned around the vision, the strategy for realizing this vision, and representing customers’ needs and product approach to the engineering team. With successful delivery in your role, your responsibilities may evolve to leading a product vertical with allocated product team members.

You ensure the engineering team maintains a clear understanding of the prioritized product backlog and goals for each product increment, which is delivered through iterative Agile development. You will act as a member of the Agile development team by specifying product requirements, planning development iterations, reviewing development progress, and accepting deliverables for release to customers. The Product Owner works with others on the larger GridUnity product and customer growth teams to understand and monitor changing customer needs. You also track on-going product metrics to ensure customer value is maximized and product investment decisions are data-driven.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & discovery

• Drive the translation of company/product strategy into a prioritized, outcome-based roadmap for GridUnity products, including by synthesizing GridUnity’s current customer needs for the solution area and placing them onto a delivery roadmap

• Engage with customers to understand needs, test and validate concepts, and continuously validate that the backlog reflects real customer and market problems

• Evaluate product enhancements to drive selection of those with extensible and / or specific strategic value, including driving build/buy/partner and sequencing tradeoffs

Backlog & requirements

• Drive and share grooming of the product backlog with other Product Owners so engineering always has a clear, well-specified next set of work

• Write and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge cases that hold up under implementation

• Balance technical debt, new features, and bug fixes within a single prioritized queue

• Make fast, defensible prioritization calls when priorities conflict

Delivery & execution

• Lead product solutioning in coordination with customer success, product design, and other team members to deliver customer needs with scalable, localized product

• Act as the go-to decision-maker for the development team on scope, sequencing, and acceptance

• Unblock engineering quickly when requirements are ambiguous or priorities shift mid-sprint

• Manage scope creep during a release without derailing the sprint or quarter's commitments

• Own release readiness — confirm feature solves for the defined need before it ships

• Provide subject matter expertise and support as needed to GridUnity sales team (e.g., RFP support, product demo