Principal Product Owner - Speed to Power, Emerging Business

Requisition ID # 174181 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Commercial Growth Organization (CGO) is dedicated to accelerating strategic, rate-reducing growth for PG&E, with a focus on driving data center growth, electrification, and economic development. With electricity demand expected to double over the next 15 years, we’re building an energy system of the future for the world’s fourth-largest economy. This team sits within the Strategy and Growth line of business, which includes Energy Policy and Procurement, Strategy and Innovation, and Integrated Long-Term Planning.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking a Product Owner to develop, test, and validate the next generation of flexible load businesses that accelerate speed-to-power. This role sits between strategy and commercialization, turning promising concepts into real-world products that generate actionable customer, operational, and commercial learning.

The Product Owner will be the commercial lead from concept validation through execution, managing cross-functional teams, customer engagement, experimentation and learning, success metrics, and reporting. Success in this role is measured not by launching products, but by generating decision-quality evidence that enables PG&E to confidently scale, modify, or stop investments.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys building from scratch, and can balance customer needs, utility operations, technical constraints, and business outcomes.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The work location is Oakland, CA. 

PG&E is providing the full salary/pay range for this position. The actual amount paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity,   specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location. The range to reasonably expect will be around the minimum to the midpoint of the range. The final decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to the factors above.  This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

Bay Area Minimum: $151,000.00

Bay Area Midpoint: $204,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $257,000.00

Key Responsibilities:

Early-Stage Commercial Product Development

• Translate emerging product concepts into structured plans and testable hypotheses
• Define objectives, success criteria, learning agendas, milestones, schedules, and budgets
• Lead commercial execution of Speed-to-Power early-stage products
• Develop and maintain business cases, assumptions, risks, and decision frameworks
• Ensure early-stage products generate meaningful customer, commercial, and operational learning

Customer & Market Engagement

• Conduct ongoing customer discussions with large load, DER, developer, EV charge point and EV fleet customers
• Identify customer pain points, purchase drivers, and willingness to pay
• Translate customer insights into product requirements and commercial hypotheses
• Build and maintain customer advisory relationships
• Gather customer feedback and market insights to refine product designs and value propositions
• Support customer onboarding, participation agreements, and contracting activities
• Serve as the voice of the customer throughout MVP design and execution

Cross-Functional Leadership and Project Management

• Coordinate work across planning, operations, regulatory, legal, customer programs, and external partners via regular operating reviews
• Own the tactical implementation plan and ensure work is executed on schedule, keeping cross-functional leads accountable to critical path milestones and dates
• Drive alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities and objectives
• Identify risks and resolve execution barriers
• Facilitate governance reviews and executive decision-making forums
• Organize, schedule, and route deliverables across workstreams
• Proactively manage budget and partner with accounting to set up unique and complex payment structures

Experimentation & Learning

• Test alternative commercial structures, pricing models, incentives, and contracts
• Ensure test plans validate critical commercial and customer assumptions
• Maintain hypothesis tracking, lessons learned, and decision logs
• Quantify project outcomes and uncertainty
• Translate pilot findings into clear recommendations for leadership

Reporting and Communications

• Create executive-ready updates on progress, risks, outcomes, and recommendations
• Communicate performance against milestones and success metrics
• Present scale, pivot, or stop recommendations supported by data
• Lead development of communications plans, where needed, and orchestrate key internal and external meetings to discuss projects

Success Metrics

Delivery

• Products are launched on schedule and within budget
• Milestones achieved as planned
• Customer onboarding and participation targets met

Learning

• Critical assumptions validated or disproven
• Decision-quality evidence generated
• Clear recommendation delivered for scale, redesign, or discontinuation

Customer Experience

• Customer satisfaction
• Actionable customer feedback collected and incorporated into product

Business Impact

• Viable pathways identified for product scaling
• New product opportunities advanced through commercialization pipeline
• Reduction in uncertainty around future investment decisions

Qualifications

Minimum:

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Minimum of 7 years’ job-related experience

Desired:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Engineering, Environmental Studies, or related discipline or equivalent work experience is required
• Minimum of 8 years’ job-related experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of load management solutions, battery energy storage systems, distributed energy resources, and / or transmission and distribution planning and operations.
• Experience in energy, utilities, transportation electrification, or grid infrastructure
• Experience in program/project management