Sentient Energy, a Koch subsidiary company, is currently hiring for a Senior Product Manager – Analytics. As a member of the Sentient Energy product team you will be the owner of our next generation advanced analytic applications. You will work with major electric utilities to solve real world problems like vegetation incursion into power lines, broken equipment detection, and many more. This is a cross-functional role – you will be acting as both a software product and project manager for several initiatives, while interfacing with our engineering and sales teams. This role can be located in either our Milpitas, CA or Frisco, TX offices.

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Own the creation, delivery, and success of the company’s software analytic products and solutions
• Work closely with customers and sales to understand needs and preferences; with engineering to define and deliver products and solutions to excite end users; and with top management to determine product and solution strategy to meet and exceed the company’s strategic objectives
• Develop and maintain competitive benchmarking
• Evaluate third party companies and solutions and drive build/buy/partner decisions
• Develop product & solution marketing material, brochures, launches, ppt’s, whitepapers, webinars
• Work with customers to manage beta tests and final delivery
• Help leading utilities serve communities better and safer while saving power, cost, resources, and lives
• Reports to Vice President, Product Management and Marketing

The Experience You Will Bring

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience building/shipping technical products
• Experience as a Product Manager at a tech company or fast-growing startup
• Experience writing product requirement documents based on market analysis and customer feedback
• Experience creating strategic roadmaps, working with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Sales, Finance)
• Demonstrable experience with product positioning and messaging, full product lifecycle management, pricing strategies, and business plan creation
• Skilled in translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and vice-versa; strong public speaking and presentation skills

What Will Put You Ahead

• MBA
• Passion for great people and engineers, and ability to lead strong teams to accomplish ambitious goals
• Familiarity with a design tool such as Sketch or Balsamiq
• Familiarity with data science and/or machine learning concepts
• Technical understanding of overall electric utility operations systems, including electric power systems, distribution automation, distributed control systems and communications

This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

Company Background

Sentient Energy, Inc., a part of Koch Engineered Solutions, is focused on delivering high quality Smart Grid monitoring and analytic systems that provide advanced electric utilities complete solutions for maximizing distribution grid performance and reliability. Our monitoring systems give electric utility companies unique and detailed insight into operating status, predictive management and fault condition remediation along the entire distribution grid.

Global utilities spend billions annually on distribution automation products, with strong growth expected over the coming years. Sentient Energy is positioned to capitalize on this trend and be a leader in the most rapidly growing sector of the Smart Grid, while making the delivery of power more reliable, safer, and lower cost.

Sentient Energy offers a unique environment for passionate people who want to make a significant contribution to the way utilities deliver power. If you thrive in fast-moving, growth-oriented businesses and you are a leader in your field, come join our team.

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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