Title: Product Manager
Company: Evergreen,Insight Global’s Manage Service Division supporting largest energy client in California
Location: Hybrid– 1-2 days at Oakland
Duration: 12 month contract - strong possibility of extension
Must Haves
- 5+ years of technologyproduct/project management experience
- Experience maturing product or project developments throughout different phases of project lifecycle
- Process improvement identification and implementation
- Experience with facilitation of cross-functional workshops
- Project or Product Management related credentials/certificates
- Experience using product or agile toolsets including JIRA
- Familiarity with source system & data architecture
- Data analytics background with advanced Excel skills
- Experience with SAP/data warehouses, GIS, other (project or data management)
- Experience anticipating unforseen consequences associated with data management
- Understanding and adherence to information security principles
- Experience contributing to workstreams requiring high level of detail orientation (e.g. mapping client source systems to regulator prescribed data reporting framework)
- Experience drafting process documentation
Plusses
- past utility/energy/PG&E experience
- Experience with Foundry, ESRI/GIS products, or LiDAR data
Day-to-Day
Evergreen, Insight Global's Managed Service Division, is partnering with one of the largest utilities as they expand their data and analytics product team to support several analytics products in their queue. As the Product Manager, your goal is to support the product strategy and product development of 1-2 products at a time – these would be analytics product to support asset health, asset failure, work management optimization, etc. These products could be ESRI/GIS or Foundry based, or LiDAR related analytics. You will support several cross functional groups including IGP team, product developers, and IT enablement teams.
Responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
User Requirements and Product Definition
- Gather, document and summarize stakeholder needs and requirements
- Schedule stakeholder working sessions including executive and working steering committees
- Gather in flight documentation on articulation of business problems and business value
- Engage product stakeholders to define business problem and product goals
- Translate data product goals into a set of requirements and features
- Socialize prioritization with stakeholders
Data Discovery and Documentation
- Gather current data inventory and process mapping documentation
- Establish baseline processes and data flows to collect, consolidate, curate, and transform data
- Document current understanding of data sources, technology systems of record, and potential data collection issues
Technology Enablement
- Align on enabling technologies needed to develop and implement the product (e.g. Foundry, GIS, Power BI)
Data Management
- Conduct working sessions with Business and IT SMEs for data schema mapping, noting areas of alignment and/or misalignment
- Document data requirements and source systems as needed
- Document\identified potential data quality issues and potential resolution paths
- Document impact to solution architecture as needed
- Document updated data flows
Process Management
- Update process documentation and track open issues
- Summarize potential to-be processes that impact data flow
- Summarize potential roadblocks (e.g., DQ concerns, manual process issues) as well as enablers (e.g., attribute update, process update) with data flow process
- Develop operationalization / path to production plans
- Outline management of change needs for intended product
Team & Stakeholder Engagement
- Conduct follow-on sessions as needed to close action items and/or work through additional topics
- Facilitate scrum sessions to help address issues and/or escalations
- Support development and IT teams as needed to ensure successful delivery of product on time
Product Roadmap
- Summarize additional feature development for next planning cycle
- Summarize feature prioritization (if updated) based on Business and IT SME, as well as executive leadership input
- Document implications for data flow / collection process as well as solution architecture / roadmap
Planning & Governance
- Continuously evolve product features in accordance with Business and IT needs
- Develop and continuously evolve roles/responsibilities with Business and IT leads
Program/Product Support
- Develop project workplan in coordination with Project Sponsor and identified product stakeholders
- Support daily standups, scrums, or operating reviews as appropriate
- Collaborate with workstream leads to compile weekly & monthly operating reviews
- Support cross-functional collaboration as needed to mitigate project risks, manage cross-team dependencies, etc.
Compensation: $50.00-75.00/HR