Senior Product Manager, Transmission Planning

Energy Exemplar is a company focused on empowering transformative energy decisions through its innovative software solutions. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead their transmission planning products, responsible for defining the vision and strategy for the PLEXOS platform and ensuring successful product adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Build and execute on the vision for Energy Exemplar’s PLEXOS platform focused on nodal analysis/transmission planning, with use cases including but not limited to:
• • Transmission system adequacy
• • Generation siting and integration
• • Generation deliverability
• • FTR/Congestion Analysis
• Own the vision and success for our Transmission planning solutions across the Energy Exemplar Product Portfolio
• Build and execute on a strategy aligned to our company goals with a roadmap that communicates key priorities and milestones
• Be responsible for discovering new customer requirements, validating their needs, and integrating these into a comprehensive product strategy and roadmap
• Write detailed requirements including the problem we are solving, a user story, and detailed acceptance criteria. Work with cross functional teams to ensure requirements are well understood including UX, engineering, technical writers, and more
• Collaborate with customers, sales, solution engineering, and internal stakeholders to ensure our products meet current customer needs
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to develop and implement effective go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and launch plans. Be the champion of your solution
• Engage with sales and prospects to help close opportunities and position the offering effectively
• Ensure successful product adoption by monitoring product performance against key metrics. Adjust tactics/strategy when necessary

Requirements:

• Fluent in PSS/E, PowerWorld or similar loadflow applications, including both DC loadflow solutions and AC loadflows
• Knowledge of DC and AC loadflow solutions and the advantages/disadvantages in their application
• Deep understanding of power system economics covering both operational economics and capital investment
• Understanding of Security Constrained Unit Commitment/Economic Dispatch (SCUC/SCED) and production costs, and the factors impacting each
• Understanding of the formation of Locational Market Prices (LMPs) and the factors driving them
• Experience using power flow analyses to develop long term transmission plans in accordance with applicable reliability standards
• Experience in developing and maintaining power flow models, including contingency files, demand updates, new facilities
• Experience using production cost models to simulate system/asset economics under various scenarios
• Experience supporting generation interconnection/retirement analyses
• Ability to translate market insights into requirements
• Strong skills for building requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Outstanding analytical abilities to use data to make recommendations
• Proven customer service skills with ability not just to meet but exceed customer expectations
• Proven ability to lead, manage and work with remote teams
• Ability to influence cross functional teams to obtain buy in, and to see the initiatives to fruition. Must be a natural leader, go-to person, able to win the respect and trust of their peer group