Head of Product Management - Grid Automation & Digital Solutions

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$150K — $180K *
Energy & Utilities
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 18+ years in power systems or utility digital platforms
  • 10+ years in product development leadership
  • Proven experience with grid software platforms like DERMS and SCADA
  • Expertise in grid analytics and WAMS technologies
  • Strong background in global utility engagement

Responsibilities

  • Support CTO in defining technology strategy for grid products
  • Drive development of product architecture and roadmaps
  • Lead innovation for advanced technology and prototypes
  • Manage product lifecycle and ensure scalability and security
  • Engage with strategic customers and support major grid initiatives

Benefits

  • Travel opportunities (30-40%) to collaborate globally
  • Engagement with cutting-edge grid technologies
  • Leadership role influencing strategic product direction
  • Mentorship and development opportunities for engineering teams
  • Participation in industry forums and innovation programs
Full Job Description
Job title: Head Technical Product Management

Position Summary:
  • Location: Dallas, Texas USA
  • Reports To: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • Cadre: Sr. Director/AVP
Travel: Up to 30-40%

Role Overview:

Objective

The Head Technical Product Management - Grid Solutions will provide technology leadership and strategic oversight for the Grid Solutions product portfolio within Digital Energy Solutions.

This role acts as the second-in-command to the CTO for the Grid Solutions segment, responsible for driving the technology roadmap, innovation programs, and product development initiatives across grid automation and grid intelligence platforms.

The Head TPM - Grid Solutions will lead both:
• New Technology Initiatives (NTI) - advanced technology development and platform innovation
• New Product Initiatives (NPI) - development and commercialization of grid software platforms

The role will ensure strong alignment between product engineering, market requirements, and deployment readiness for global utility customers.

Product Portfolio

You will oversee the technology roadmap & product development for the following platforms:
• DERMS (Distributed Energy Resource Management System)
• APM (Asset Performance Management)
• NeuralGRID™ Time Series Historian
• Utility SCADA Platforms
• WAMS (Wide Area Monitoring System)
• PDC (Phasor Data Concentrator)
• Substation Gateway / Protocol Gateway Platforms

These products form the core Grid Digital Platform stack supporting utilities, transmission operators, and renewable grid integration programs.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership for Grid Platform / Solutions / Product Line
• Support the CTO in defining and executing the technology strategy for grid digital platforms.
• Drive architecture and roadmap development for the Grid Solutions product portfolio.
• Ensure alignment of product development initiatives by evolving utility market requirements, grid modernization programs, and DER integration trends.
• Champion platform-based architecture and reusable technology frameworks across grid products.

Leadership of NTI - New Technology Initiatives

Lead the New Technology Initiatives (NTI) team responsible for advanced technology innovation.

Key focus areas include:
• Grid digital platforms and control architectures
• AI/ML-driven grid analytics
• Edge computing for grid automation
• Real-time grid data platforms and time-series systems
• Grid cybersecurity and secure control infrastructure

Responsibilities:
• Identify emerging technologies relevant to grid modernization
• Drive innovation programs and technology prototypes
• Establish technology partnerships with research institutions and industry partners
• Transition validated technologies into productization pipelines.

Leadership of NPI - New Product Initiatives

Lead the New Product Initiatives (NPI) organization responsible for product development and commercialization.

Responsibilities include:
• Product architecture definition and engineering governance
• Platform development for DERMS, APM, SCADA, Historian, WAMS, and gateway solutions
• Ensuring scalability, cybersecurity, and interoperability of product platforms
• Driving product lifecycle management and version roadmaps
• Supporting global product launches and market adoption.

Customer & Strategic Engagement
• Support strategic customer engagements with utilities, grid operators, and energy developers.
• Provide technical leadership during large grid modernization opportunities involving DERMS, SCADA, or

WAMS platforms.
• Collaborate with sales and solution engineering teams to shape large strategic bids.
• Represent the company in industry forums related to grid modernization, DER integration, and grid analytics.

Organization Leadership
  • Develop strong technical leadership within product teams
  • Mentor architects, product managers, and engineering leaders
  • Build global product engineering capability for Grid Solutions.


Required Experience
  • 18+ years of experience in power systems, grid automation, or utility digital platforms.
  • 10+ years of leadership experience managing product development or technology organizations.
  • Experience leading technical product management for grid software platforms such as: DERMS
  • Utility SCADA
  • Grid analytics platforms
  • Wide area monitoring systems
  • Utility data platforms / historians.
  • Experience working with global utilities, transmission operators, or grid modernization program

Technical Expertise

Experience in several of the following domains:

Grid Platforms
  • DERMS / Distributed energy management
  • Utility SCADA systems
  • Grid analytics platforms
  • Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS)
  • Phasor Data Concentrators (PDC)

Grid Data Platforms
  • Time-series data systems
  • Asset performance analytics
  • AI/ML for grid operations
  • Digital twin for power systems

Grid Architecture
  • Transmission & distribution automation
  • DER integration architectures
  • Control center and edge architectures
  • Cloud-edge hybrid grid platforms

Key Competencies
  • Strategic technology leadership
  • Platform architecture thinking
  • Grid domain expertise
  • Product innovation and roadmap leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Global technology team leadership

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Successful release of new Grid Solutions products as per respective roadmaps
  • Growth of the Grid Solutions product portfolio
  • Innovation pipeline from NTI to commercial products
  • NeuralGRID™ platform adoption
  • Engineering productivity and product quality
  • Strategic customer adoption of grid platforms

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