Associate Product Manager

at  YES Energy

ABOUT THE TEAM

At Yes Energy, we help our clients get through and win the day ahead by providing Better Data, Better Delivery, and Better Direction.
Our product team is passionate about helping customers navigate the North American power markets’ complex and ever-changing landscape by making data visual and actionable in industry-leading delivery mechanisms. We operate in a collaborative environment, constantly seeking ways to enhance our processes to provide our clients with the finest quality products possible.

QUALITIES OF AN IDEAL CANDIDATE

• You are a data nerd passionate about making data-driven decisions when developing product roadmaps.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills and desire to apply them to customers and internal stakeholders, including small and large (100+) audiences.
• You have strong attention to detail, organization, and time management skills.
• You are curious and committed to developing deep domain expertise on nodal power market data. You are motivated to learn our business, customers, and way of doing product management.
• You are naturally collaborative and ask thought-provoking questions to help you prioritize product development and expand your product, market, and technical knowledge.
• You utilize your understanding of complex and messy data to help write better requirements for engineering teams.
• You have a growth mindset and are constantly seeking ways to improve.
• You are undaunted by complex, technical topics and don’t give up until you understand.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-3 years of product management experience.
• 1-3 years of energy industry experience, preferably in nodal power markets.
• BS/BA degree in a product, technology, or finance-related field.
• Ability to travel 15-20%

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Tableau, Sigma, and Jira
• Experience working with Agile teams, processes, and software (preferably Jira)

• Customer Engagement
• Work closely with customers to understand their business challenges deeply and uncover the most valuable solutions we can offer to solve them.
• Train internal departments on new product features and provide support to customers.
• Travel to customers’ sites and other Yes Energy offices - minimum travel expectation is 15-20%.
• Participate in Product Development
• Act as the product owner on an engineering team ~33% of the year.
• Inform the product roadmap for one of Yes Energy’s core products.
• Manage the product backlog for feature requests and bug fixes.
• Support product managers of other products in our portfolio (backlog management, ad hoc / bug prioritization, Tier 2 support).
• Analyze usage data to make data-driven decisions on future data catalog investments.
• Perform market research and understand how different customer segments use our products.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing
• Coordinate with Sales and Marketing on go-to-market product strategies.
• Contribute to content-driven marketing pieces.
• Be the expert on the competitive landscape for a product.
• Partner with Customer Success & Customer Support
• Work with the Customer Success team to provide advanced product support.
• Work with the Customer Success team to develop and implement metrics to measure and improve customer engagement and maximize the customer’s value from Yes Energy products.
• Create training tools and lead projects to increase the adoption of Yes Energy products and features.