Product Manager II

Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers

We are seeking a Product Manager II to join our team and oversee Non-steerable Asset Optimization capabilities within our Flex platform. In this role, you will be responsible for the core user experience of optimizing non-steerable devices, ensuring utility program managers can seamlessly manage demand response programs at scale. This mission-critical role focuses on our Predictive Capacity Dispatch (PCD) capability, which enables utilities to predictably rely on the load shed of non-steerable devices—such as smart thermostats—to achieve a flat, sustained level of load reduction during peak event windows. You will guide client readiness, collaborate on dispatch strategy, and manage OEM compatibility to ensure our most sophisticated non-steerable dispatch capabilities are scalable, resilient, and easy to use . 

• →Develop and articulate a clear product strategy for our Non-steerable Asset Optimization capability. 
• →Collaborate closely with engineering and design to shape strategy & roadmap, prioritize the most valuable problems to solve, and launch MVPs to quickly validate hypotheses in that strategy 
• →Lead iterative product & design thinking to continuously measure, learn, and enhance user experience in our utility-facing products
• →Build a deep and data-driven understanding of customer needs, pain points, and real-life behaviors across programs.
• →Drive user research with clients at every stage of product development
• →Define, monitor, measure, analyze, and report on key metrics for your products
• →Partner closely with Designer, Engineers, fellow PMs & User Researchers, Marketers, Account Managers and more across the business to align on core user problems (or JTBD) and uncover shared opportunities together.
• →Champion a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and iteration.

• 2+ years experience leading product teams to understand highest value pain points, market opportunities, and delivering on them
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with an ability to clearly articulate your narrative to both technical and non-technical, internal and external client audiences alike.
• Experience leading horizontal, multi-team efforts around shared business goals or questions, embedding discovery throughout your process.
• A user-first mindset that advocates for the pursuit of simple, elegant solutions, while balancing ambiguity and technical constraints.
• Growth-minded and well-versed in giving and receiving constructive feedback, with a commitment to collaborative problem-solving.

• A deep curiosity for exploring responsible efficiency opportunities with AI.
• Comfortable jumping into complex technical domains with curiosity and humility.
• Experience working in multiple industries and/or in startup environments
• Fluency in Agile environments, meeting cadences, etc.