Product Manager at Ulteig in US - Remote

Job description

• The Opportunity
• Ulteig is seeking a forward-thinking, innovative Product Manager to drive a strategic initiative focused on automating Renewables substation and battery energy storage systems design work. This position offers an exciting opportunity to define and implement innovative and agile automation solutions that will drive efficiency and productivity for years to come.
• This position works closely with internal business experts, operations, outside consultants, and technology partners to develop a roadmap, create and execute the strategic initiative for modular automation projects for renewables substation and battery energy storage systems that utilize web applications, design authoring software and supporting software tools. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, initiative, innovation, and strategic thinking to ensure the successful implementation of automation initiatives and translates business needs and customer insights into actionable products and clear product requirements.
• The Product Manager owns the product lifecycle by defining the strategic “why” and “what” in the roadmap and partnering with delivery teams to translate priorities into successful outcomes. By collaborating across functions, they drive impactful solutions that advance Ulteig’s digital transformation objectives ensuring measurable outcomes through data-driven decision-making and agile practices. Success in this role is measured by product adoption, business impact, and effective stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Product Execution & Delivery
• Identify and Frame Problems: Proactively engage with stakeholders and internal users to uncover, define, and articulate the most pressing technical challenges and opportunities. Ensure that product efforts are anchored in a deep understanding of the underlying problems, not just proposed solutions. Use research, data analysis, and direct feedback to validate problem statements before moving to solution design.
• Define Product Vision & Roadmap: Own the 6 to 12-month product roadmap, ensuring alignment with Ulteig’s strategic objectives and customer needs.
• Translate Vision into Action: Convert product strategy into clear requirements and actionable plans for design automation solution products.
• Build the Business Case: Justify new features and initiatives by linking them to measurable business goals (e.g., “reduce manual data entry by 10 hours/week”).
• Validate MVPs and Early Concepts: Define requirements for minimum viable products, prototypes, and pilot solutions, and use stakeholder and user feedback to test concepts before broader investment or rollout.
• Own the Product Backlog: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, including writing clear features, requirements and defining acceptance criteria.
• Support Daily Execution: Serve as the dedicated “go-to” person for the delivery team, answering questions, clarifying requirements, and making rapid prioritization calls.
• Accept Completed Work: Review and accept completed user stories, ensuring they meet acceptance criteria and deliver intended value.
• Manage Releases: Coordinate with the team and stakeholders to plan and communicate product releases.
• Develop and Maintain Key Artifacts: Maintain product requirement documents, customer journey maps, voice of the customer analysis, product analytics, and business impact dashboards.
• Leadership & Development
• Storytelling: Crafting compelling narratives that align diverse teams (business services, engineering, sales, and design) behind a single product vision.
• Relationship Management: Align multiple team dynamics to build trust and drive alignment across competing interests.
• Leading Through Ambiguity: Support product team morale and focus when strategies change rapidly due to new information or business priority.
• Operational Excellence
• Support Continuous Improvement: Champion technology adoption and process improvements within assigned product areas.
• Drive Product Adoption: Partner with stakeholders to support adoption of new products, processes, and ways of working through change planning, communication, and adoption activities.
• Monitor Product Performance: Use dashboards to track ROI, adoption, and business impact.
• Define & Track Success: Establish and monitor KPIs and metrics that define success for your product.
• Incorporate Market and Competitive Insights: Monitor industry trends, competitive offerings, and market signals to inform product strategy, prioritization, and decision-making.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Manage Stakeholder Expectations: Act as the primary point of contact for your product, managing stakeholder expectations and communicating product vision and roadmap to business stakeholders.
• Support Progress Communications: Partner with the delivery lead to support communication of delivery progress, key updates, and outcomes to stakeholders.
• Conduct ‘Customer’ Research: Regularly meet with users and stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and needs.
• Engage Cross-Functional Partners: Collaborate with business services teams and other partners to gather requirements, resolve issues, and drive alignment.
• Drive Enablement and Client Engagement: Partner with stakeholders to develop product messaging, and support demos and presentations.
• Represent Product Value Clearly: Communicate product value propositions clearly and professionally to all stakeholders to reinforce benefits and support product adoption.
• Team Contribution & Growth
• Contribute to Team Culture: Foster innovation, collaboration, and accountability within the product team.
• Continuous Learning: Actively seek and act on feedback, participate in ongoing learning, and work toward shared team goals.
• Disclaimer: The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of this position.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Design, Business Management, or other related fields; consideration will be given to relevant experience.
• Requires 5+ years of experience in design-related fields; hands-on automation, digital design, or BIM experience preferred.
• Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple, concurrent projects and workstreams while meeting aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with extensive project planning and execution skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and relationship building skills.
• Strong communication skills, written, verbal, and interpersonal.
• Knowledge and proficiency in the primary design authoring and supporting software platforms that will be utilized for these applications.
• Knowledge of web applications is preferred.
• Knowledge of data structures (AI architecture, SQL, API understanding, and data pipelines) is preferred.
• Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement.
• Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S.

Skills

Preferred

• Knowledge of web applications

Benefits

• Target Base Compensation Range for this role is $102,000 - $138,000
• * Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your job-specific skills, education, training, job location, number of years of experience related to this role and comparison to other employees already in this role.
• This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 60 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.