Lead Product Analyst, Regulatory & Markets

GridUnity is the industry leader in interconnection life cycle management, delivering cutting-edge software solutions for a sustainable energy future. As Lead Product Analyst, Regulatory & Markets, you will shape the integrated view of market structure and regulatory signals, translating insights for executive leadership and ensuring the product strategy aligns with market shifts.

Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain GridUnity’s Market Map as a strategic product decision tool, providing a clear, structured view of the interconnection and planning ecosystem, including competitive positioning, market structure, ecosystem dynamics, and emerging risks
• Develop and maintain competitive intelligence on key players, adjacent solutions, and new entrants, including capabilities, positioning, and potential impact on GridUnity strategy
• Identify competitive threats, whitespace opportunities, and structural market shifts that inform product direction and differentiation
• Integrate outputs from competitive intelligence, regulatory monitoring, tariff analysis, Market Radar, and Voice of Customer activities into decision-ready insights for executive leadership
• Lead development of market, competitive, customer, and regulatory implication briefs, translating signals into clear product, positioning, and capability implications
• Ensure insight quality, consistency, and relevance across the Product Strategy Library, with a focus on decision usability and strategic clarity
• Serve as Product Enablement’s primary partner in roadmap and strategy discussions, providing market, competitive, partner, and regulatory context, framing, and informed judgment
• Provide market, competitive, and regulatory perspective to the Product Alignment Council, Product Lifecycle Council, and other leadership forums
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Experience, and Sales to ensure insights are embedded into planning, rollout, and adoption strategies
• Provide functional leadership across insight activities, setting priorities, standards, and synthesis approaches, including competitive intelligence and market analysis frameworks
• Partner closely with analysts and subject matter experts cross-functionally to guide work without formal line management
• Support evolution of Enablement processes to ensure scalability and long-term value, particularly in market intelligence and decision-support infrastructure

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Public Policy, Energy Systems, Engineering, or a related field (Equivalent professional experience may be substituted)
• 7–10+ years of experience in market strategy, competitive intelligence, product strategy, management consulting, or related roles in the energy or technology sector
• Experience operating in a SaaS or technology-enabled environment with exposure to product strategy, positioning, or go-to-market decision-making
• Demonstrated ability to conduct competitive analysis, market mapping, and ecosystem analysis, and translate findings into strategic recommendations
• Prefer working knowledge of interconnection, transmission, distribution, or planning processes sufficient to assess market impact and product implications
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex, ambiguous inputs into clear, strategic guidance for senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to influence product strategy or business decisions through influence in cross-functional environments
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear, structured, and executive-level narratives
• Experience owning and evolving market maps, competitive landscapes, or ecosystem models as decision tools in a SaaS or platform business
• Deep understanding of utility market structure and regulatory dynamics across multiple jurisdictions, with the ability to anticipate structural shifts
• Experience shaping product positioning, differentiation, or go-to-market strategy based on market and competitive insights
• Track record of operating as a trusted advisor to senior product or executive leaders, influencing strategic direction
• Background in top-tier strategy consulting or market advisory roles, with demonstrated application to product or platform strategy
• Demonstrated thought leadership through publications, industry engagement, or conference participation