Clean Energy Product Owner, CES Digital Products

Overview

Responsibilities

• Con Edison, a multibillion-dollar energy utility, is leading the clean energy transition in New York City and Westchester County. We are investing hundreds of millions of dollars annually to integrate distributed resources into our electric and gas systems, support electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and scale adoption of energy efficiency and clean heating technologies across our customers.
• This is a great role to demonstrate your ability to drive results, demonstrate application of cross-disciplinary skills to the clean energy space and gain firsthand experience with the clean energy transition.
• The Product Owner will work with business program managers and stakeholders in the CES Digital Products group.
• The Product Owner will be responsible for leading an agile product pod and will manage one or more Business Analysts directly
• The Product Owner will be responsible for product and feature development and communications including the product roadmap, backlog prioritization, project plans, resource utilization schedules and budget materials
• Facilitate user requirement workshops, translate business needs to technical language for developers
• Solution with engineering team keeping in mind both current and future programs, projects, and initiatives in mind, while identifying process improvements using analytics
• Plan, execute, monitor, track, manage risks and issues and report on projects using traditional and Agile development
• processes and techniques
• Analyze business requirements to develop and define high-level epics and stories to create a prioritized Product Backlog
• Write user stories, personas, and acceptance criteria driven by business value that are clear, concise, and easy to understand.
• Identify related user stories, features, themes and epics, grouping them into themes as necessary and documenting the interrelationship and associated business process flows.
• Plan and manage testing associated with changes to business processes and systems, including supervising development of detailed test plans and test cases, execution of testing, documentation of findings, and working with business and technical staff to resolve identified issues and seek approvals.
• Identify and monitor key performance metrics that drive engagement and result in achieving the States clean energy goals
• Support a customer-centric and service-oriented culture, taking special interest in meeting the needs of external and internal stakeholders.
• Initiate and implement program improvements across governance and intake processes in coordination with Department Manager
• Perform other related tasks and assignments as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 3 years relevant experience or
• Master's Degree and minimum of 2 years relevant experience

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Math, Business, or applicable degree and with 5 years related work experience in a system engineering/analysis area

• Proven leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to drive results by collaborating with stakeholders to build consensus. Required
• Strong communications, presentation, writing, and analytical skills. Required
• Experience with creating requirements and tracking projects in Azure Dev or similar. Required
• Experience managing budgets and forecasts. Required
• Ability to facilitate meetings to decompose business processes and understand required changes to leverage benefits of analytics. Required
• Experience developing resource plans for large project and the roles required for delivery Preferred
• Experience in producing formal presentations and documentation for executive and regulatory share out. Preferred
• Experience with SAFe Agile program management and/or transformation. Preferred
• Experience with energy efficiency, demand-side management, electric vehicles, and/or other clean energy program from a utility or participating vendor perspective. Preferred
• Familiar with New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), Con Edisons rate case, New Efficiency New York, and/or other relevant clean energy regulations or proceedings. Preferred
• Strong skills and experience with the MS Office suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project. Preferred

• Develops and delivers effective presentations
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Excellent collaboration and team building skills
• Promotes information sharing
• Ability to lead/manage others
• Ability to simultaneously handle multiple priorities
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Proactively approaches responsibilities

• Driver's License Required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Preferred
• Other: Agile, SAFe Agile certified Preferred

• Must be able to respond to Company emergencies by performing a System Emergency Assignment to restore service to our customers.
• Must be able and willing to travel within Company service territory, as needed.
• Must be able to participate in the Companys emergency management processes and storm plans as required.