Senior Product Owner, AI Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish the strategy and roadmap for the GridUnity Intelligence Platform's technical capabilities and GALE AI.

• Convert company and product strategy into a prioritized, outcome-focused AI roadmap.

• Interact with customers to understand their needs, test concepts, and validate AI use cases.

• Define AI use cases and evaluate build/buy/partner options along with sequencing tradeoffs.

• Collaborate with growth, strategic operations, and engineering teams on AI pricing models.

• Utilize data science to evaluate AI feasibility, readiness, and value.

• Provide reports on product health, including adoption rates, customer satisfaction, and delivery predictability.

• Lead product solutioning efforts alongside customer success, product design, and other team members.

• Oversee the transition from experimentation to production, including pilots, A/B tests, and phased rollouts.

• Write and enhance user stories, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and model performance thresholds.

• Evaluate data availability, quality, and labeling requirements.

• Manage the AI backlog and contribute to the grooming of the overall backlog.

• Serve as the decision-maker for development team scope, sequencing, and acceptance criteria.

• Handle scope creep and take ownership of release readiness.

• Ensure standards for explainability, auditability, bias, data privacy, and controls are met.

• Define requirements for monitoring, human-in-the-loop reviews, and fallback procedures.

• Balance competing stakeholder demands while supporting sales with RFPs, demonstrations, training, and documentation.

• Keep leadership and stakeholders updated on status, risks, and trade-offs.

• Mentor junior product owners and advocate for continuous improvement.

• Work with the Director of Platform Product Management to promote the advancement of AI use.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, statistics, engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 7 years of experience in B2B SaaS software organizations.

• More than 4 years of experience in a Product Owner role.

• At least 2 years of experience with AI or data-intensive products requiring data science or analytics expertise.

• Proven track record of delivering products and features utilized by actual customers, with measurable outcomes.

• Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle: data preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and drift management.

• Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI, including prompting, RAG, evaluation strategies, cost and latency trade-offs, and agentic workflows.

• Preferred experience and knowledge in the energy/utility sector, including transmission planning and/or interconnection processes.

• Ability to operate independently and manage ambiguity at a senior level.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and business domains.

• Experience effectively communicating with executive-level stakeholders while proposing risk-mitigation and opportunity-securing strategies.

• Comprehensive understanding of Agile software development methodologies.

• Highly organized, capable of managing multiple projects and deliverables amidst changing priorities.

• Must qualify as a U.S. person under federal law: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; GridUnity does not provide visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages.

• Remote-first culture offering flexibility and work-life balance.

• Opportunities for professional development, including training, mentorship, and career advancement.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance starting from day one.

• Short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance provided at no cost.

• 401(k) plan with a 4% match.

• Flexible PTO policy.

• Mission-driven work that provides an opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector.

• Bonus opportunities available.