Job Type
Full-time
Description
Remote-Hybrid. Boston, MA or Denver/Boulder, CO
Shape the future of the grid by solving complex problems with cutting-edge technology on a mission-driven team.
The successful Senior Product Manager will lead discovery efforts to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful solutions, and drive measurable results for our customers. You'll align stakeholders, make critical decisions, and guide your squad to create innovative capabilities that Fortune 500 utilities rely on. Join our collaborative Product Team at LineVision, named one of the 2024 Built In Best Places to Work in Boston for the second year in a row.
What will you do?
Core Responsibilities and Key Performance Objectives
- Leverage your background in physics or engineering (SW, Data, etc) to develop deep expertise in transmission systems, line ratings, and the operational needs of utility customers.
- Investigate and test innovative solutions, using algorithmic or modeling knowledge to create actionable plans and build valuable product capabilities for utility customers.
- Lead discovery efforts by identifying risks, forming hypotheses, conducting tests, and validating solutions to address complex challenges in the energy industry.
- Ensure successful delivery of new capabilities by representing the voice of the customer, collaborating with cross-functional teams, training sales colleagues, and confidently presenting to executives and engineers in a B2B sales environment.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with your development squad, product management peers, and leadership, while applying a strategic understanding of business, finance, and startup dynamics to drive results.
Within the first 3 months:
- Build relationships with colleagues and customers while gaining a deep understanding of our overall product and your specific area.
- Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to gather insights that inform product direction.
- Lead discovery efforts by identifying risks, conducting tests, and validating results.
Within the first 6 months:
- Develop a strong understanding of our business strategy and go-to-market (GTM) approach.
- Take full ownership of your product area, shipping impactful features or running experiments to achieve customer value and OKRs.
- Refine product development processes within your squad and share best practices across teams.
Within the first year:
- Become a recognized expert in our product and customer base, guiding key business decisions.
- Work closely with leadership to evaluate opportunities, understand market dynamics, and identify growth areas.
- Lead cross-functional and cross-squad product development efforts, building consensus, aligning plans, and delivering impactful results.
How to succeed in this role
- Think Critically: Analyze technical risks, business model challenges, usability issues, and customer value thoroughly to make well-rounded decisions.
- Exercise Strong Judgment: Make thoughtful decisions with competing drivers, clearly communicate your rationale, and build a track record of successful, defensible outcomes.
- Master Stakeholder Management: Understand stakeholder priorities and communication preferences, align decisions with those priorities, and provide evidence-based reasoning when trade-offs are required.
- Be Mission-Driven: Immerse yourself in the industry, customers, and business context to ensure informed decision-making and a deep alignment with the company mission.
- Build Strong Relationships: Foster trust by clearly communicating intentions, demonstrating capabilities, and reliably delivering on commitments to gain critical context and stakeholder support.
- Drive Consensus: Facilitate discussions, integrate diverse perspectives, address stakeholder concerns, and lead decisions that optimize success for the company, employees, and customers.
What does joining LineVision mean for you?
- Impact. Your talent, time, and energy will critically impact our success in accelerating our mission of a net-zero grid.
- Ownership. You will hold broad responsibilities with high autonomy and trust in a communicative, collaborative, and fast-paced environment.
- Flexibility. You will be empowered to maintain work-life balance with trust-based PTO and a flexible hybrid-remote work schedule.
- Real World Innovation. You will join a motivated and high-performing team working with cutting edge, patented technology to help solve key obstacles to the clean energy transition.
Who we are...
We are a rapidly growing climate-tech company based in Boston, MA. Through our non-contact sensor, we enable electric utilities to serve increased load, integrate more renewable energy, ensure grid resilience, and enable mass electrification. With real-time monitoring and predictive analytics, we empower electric utilities to lead the clean energy transition. We are LineVisionaries:
- We are Innovators: we light the way with tenacious creativity and do good work.
- We are Empowered: With high trust and high autonomy, the floor is yours, and the opportunity is ours.
- We are Welcoming: Come as you are, our doors are open. We are better together.
- We are Trusted Partners: We elevate our customer champions through shared thought leadership. We deliver on commitments.
- We are All In: We are building a community of passionate individuals who want to dent the universe and accelerate the net-zero grid.
At LineVision there's no such thing as a "perfect" candidate. We are looking for exceptional people who want to make a positive impact through their work and facilitate an organization where everyone can thrive. So whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this role would make you excited to come to work every day.
Meet our team, understand our mission: https://www.linevisioninc.com/about-us
Salary Description
$155-170k/year
What We Do
LineVision’s team researched, designed, and developed an advanced non-contact sensor platform that continuously monitors the behavior of the transmission system, detects anomalies, and issues real-time alerts on risks, and with Dynamic Line Ratings can safely unlock upwards of 40% additional capacity on our aged and congested power lines – helping utilities adapt to a modern grid powered by sources of renewable power generation.
Why Work With Us
You will inspire the future by being part of a team that introduces a fundamentally differentiated solution to utilities that helps solve the challenges they face in updating and increasing the capacity of the current grid system.