Product Manager, Data

The Position

We are looking for an inspiring and analytical Product Manager Data to join Sympower's Product team and challenge us on building the right thing to help our customers accelerate the global transition towards 'net zero' with smarter and cleaner renewable energy systems.

You'll be collaborating with 10 other Product Managers and designers and leading, alongside an engineering team-lead, a team of 6 engineers to deliver impactful outcomes.

This is a full-time position remote/hybrid located in -1/+1 to central European timezone.

What is in it for you

We are committed to creating an inclusive and values-based culture where everyone feels that they belong and where everyone has the opportunity to do meaningful work.

We offer a market competitive compensation package, including but not limited to:

• 30 Days Paid Holiday Leave

• 1 Day Paid Wellness Leave

• 1 Day Paid Birthday Leave

• Paid Maternity and Partner Leave

• Pawternity Leave

• Mental Health and Wellbeing Support

• Remote Office Budget

• Internet Allowance

• Development Plan & Budget

• Stock Appreciation Rights

• 2 Days Paid Volunteer Leave

Learn about all of our benefits on our careers page.

As a Product Manager Data at Sympower, you'll play a pivotal role in leveraging data to drive the creation of new features, enhance the platform's value, and elevate the overall customer/user experience. Your primary focus will be on Data Analytics, where you'll work to build upon the existing foundation of the Data Platform, self-service data solutions, and BI dashboards. Given Sympower's current growth phase, it's crucial to empower our customers with insights on their performances, Second to that you will also empower internal teams to derive insights from accessible data. This presents an opportunity for you to make a significant impact within the organization, contributing to Sympower's evolution into a mature, data-driven entity.

What you will do

Your role will be focused on three key areas: strategy, execution, and user understanding. This means you'll play a crucial part in shaping the direction of our data products, ensuring their successful implementation, and deeply understanding the needs and experiences of our users.

Strategy

• Develop a strategy for maximizing the value of data as an independent product

• Drive the self-service analytics & data-informed decision-making throughout the company

• Ask insightful questions to determine the “what” and the “why” of our priorities

• Co-create and define the Product Roadmap alongside the other Product Managers

• Provide context and guidance, empowering your team to have impactful results

• Improve the visibility and positioning of the product team in the company

Execution

• Prioritise product outcome and capabilities based on research and data analysis

• Set goals, define success metrics and motivate your team to achieve

• Own team backlog & fulfilment, collaborate closely with the engineering team lead

• Align stakeholders around the product outcomes

User understanding

• Conduct customer, competitor, and market research to inform strategic decisions

• Define behavioural questions, set the right analytics tool, measure, learn and adjust

• Work with a Product designer on various user science techniques to understand deeply your end users

What you will need

• 4 years’ experience as a product manager (and working directly with a team of Analytical/Data engineers)

• Strong analytical skills

• Curiosity fuels your working day, and data drives your decision-making process

• Collaborative mind-set, with experience in stakeholder engagement and excellent communication skills

• Hands-on and result-oriented focus

• Proven ability of developing and managing complex software products with your team

• Experience working with agile methodologies

• Proven experience of pro-active behaviour and contributing to the development of the product team culture

• This is a full-time position remote/hybrid located in -1/+1 to central European timezone.

Beneficial skills

• Experience with (BI) reports, dashboards, and visualisations, preferably with PowerBI and Databricks.

• Experience with ELT data pipeline development, preferably with SQL and Python (Spark)

• Hands-on experience within the data domain (e.g. data pipeline development)

• Proven ability to go from raw data to information, create conclusions and suggest actions

• Experience with planning roadmap initiatives using the Double Diamond framework and prioritising them using various frameworks (weighted score, RICE, etc.) in product management tools such as Productboard, Airfocus, etc.

• Interest in user science techniques such as survey, interview, prototyping, A/B testing, analytics tools

• Proficiency in empowering internal teams and/or external developers through your services/products.

• Experience within the energy industry

Who we are

Sympower is accelerating the global transition towards ‘net-zero’ by helping to build smarter, cleaner renewable energy systems. Using our proprietary software platform, we help balance the supply and demand of electricity across international energy networks.

We help businesses, grid operators, asset owners and other energy stakeholders around the world reduce their carbon emissions, integrate more distributed renewable energy resources, and generate new revenue streams by participating in demand-side response services.

Learn more about us in this video.

In 2022, Sympower became a certified B Corp, which shows the company is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency across 5 impact areas: governance, workers, community, environment, and customers.

Sympower is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.

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