Associate Product Manager

Job Description

Job Description

ASSOCIATE PRODUCT MANAGER

Join the Market Leader in Electric Power Trading Solutions

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid every day.

Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions that keep utility prices low and the grid up and running.

It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose.

Be a part of our successful, growing business

Position Details

• Salary Range : 80,000 100,000
• Full-time, Hybrid role, Work onsite 2 days a week
• Reports to Director of Product
• Minimal travel may be required (15-20%)
• Located in Yes Energy’s core offices across the US (Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Boston / Dedham, MA; Richmond, VA).

Position Summary

We seek to fill an Associate Product Manager position in any of our core offices across the US. In this role, you will manage one of our core products and support other products in our portfolio.

NOTE : This is a hybrid role, and we prefer the candidate to be located in Yes Energy’s core offices across the US (Boulder, CO;

Chicago, IL; Boston / Dedham, MA; Richmond, VA).

About the Team

At Yes Energy, we help our clients get through and win the day ahead by providing Better Data, Delivery, and 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.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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.

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

• A minimum of one year of product management experience.
• A minimum of one year of energy industry experience, preferably in nodal power markets.
• BS / BA degree in a product, technology, or finance-related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• 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)

About Yes Energy

Overview

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions. Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily.

The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions.

Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers.

Yes Energy has a team of over 200 amazing professionals across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Culture

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying Yes to customers.

We like to listen, learn, and develop solutions that are in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful we are more successful, too.

Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of :

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges.
• We are high standards people who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds- with a consistent ethic across the company.
• We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy. We work in small teams on well-defined projects directly impacting the business's success.
• We play to each person's strengths and experience while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area.

This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills and an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways.

We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package is also very competitive, including medical insurance, a 401 (k) Plan with matching, flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules.

Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

In accordance with Colorado law, the range provided is Yes Energy’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role.

The actual amount may be higher or lower based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Yes, Energy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

In addition to federal law requirements, Yes Energy complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.