Technical Product Manager

Xpansiv is an infrastructure provider for energy transition markets, offering platforms for environmental commodity markets. The Technical Product Manager will lead and design registry software for renewable energy, carbon, fuels, and plastics commodities. The role involves managing product initiatives from concept and specification through engineering delivery, user acceptance testing, and go-live while collaborating with clients and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute initiatives for registry clients which include responsibilities such as business development, scope facilitation, product specifications, and overall delivery to market/client
• Conceptualize and mature business ideas or concepts into clear, actionable proposals and/or feature requests; this may require distilling a feature request into its underlying functionality to recommend the most fitting implementation approach
• Collaborate as a leader with clients, commercial or product peers, architecture and technical teams to structure priorities, allocate resources, communicate or refine business concepts, and challenge implementation approaches as needed
• Document product specifications with highest degree of caliber, cataloging both functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Lead the engineering effort to market, from project inception and client-facing workshops through to status reports, UAT, and go-live efforts, keeping in line with company policy and standards
• Evaluate the product portfolio from a business and software delivery perspective, with an emphasis on how to best sequence the pipeline and/or develop a business opportunity
• Establish the success metrics of an initiative at project onset, relying on previous, proven work experiences and current-day research to garner consensus and alignment from cross-functional teams
• Maintain a general understanding or working knowledge of the IT systems and their connections
• Champion agile methodology and other standards or tools to gain efficiencies in product specification, UI/UX design, and project management

Requirements:

• Computer Science Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT, Systems Administration, or related disciplines
• 5+ years as a product manager, preferably in a SaaS offering and/or the environmental, carbon, or ESG market spaces
• Proven track record of portfolio delivery, 2MM++
• Experience using Azure or Jira for Agile projects
• Exceptional communications skills and client presence in a fast-paced environment
• Strong project management and analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail and results oriented
• Ability to communicate effectively with technology and business partners, and to lead compromises between the two
• Ability to lead a portfolio of projects to success
• Ability to create user journeys, user stories, wireframes, and basic diagrams to convey ideas
• Forge trusted partnerships across the organization
• MBA is a plus
• Experience in an IT role is a plus
• Certified in Agile is a plus
• Working knowledge of markup languages, HTML, CSS, SQL, and NoSQL is a plus