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Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us. This Product Manager role is accountable for the end-to-end stewardship of a defined portion of Itron's Grid Management portfolio, with a strong focus on delivering cohesive, intuitive, and user-centered experiences across Itron's Advanced Grid Reliability solutions. The role centers on translating complex grid, event, and operational data into clear, meaningful insights that empower utility users to make confident, informed decisions and realize tangible business value. Duties and Responsibilities: Champion the product line strategy and execution for assigned Grid Management and Distributed Intelligence (DI) solutions, ensuring alignment with Itron's Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio and customer needs. Shape and evolve the product vision and multi-year roadmap for UI/UX experiences across Advanced Grid Reliability and Grid Management solutions, balancing innovation, usability, and business outcomes. Collaborate closely and authentically with cross-functional product partners to deliver a coherent, industry-leading Grid Management and DI solution portfolio. Define and maintain long-term product roadmaps, investment priorities, and success metrics, holding accountability for outcomes and continuous improvement. Drive sustainable business results, including revenue growth, market adoption, and profitability, while remaining customer-centric and value-focused. Lead thoughtful market segmentation, customer targeting, and competitive analysis to inform product strategy and go-to-market decisions. Facilitate inclusive, user-centered discovery activities such as user research, workflow analysis, persona development, and usability validation to ensure solutions reflect real-world utility workflows. Partner collaboratively with engineering teams to guide development priorities, navigate trade-offs, and support agile release planning. Work hand-in-hand with UI/UX teams to translate product vision into prioritized epics and features, contributing to wireframes, early concepts, and data-rich visual designs. Support pricing, packaging, and business case development in partnership with finance and sales leaders. Enable sales and marketing teams with compelling go-to-market materials, including positioning, messaging, demos, and customer-facing content. Represent the product line with confidence and credibility in executive reviews, customer engagements, industry events, and analyst discussions. Required Skills & Experience 3+ years of experience in product management or a closely related role, with demonstrated ownership and accountability. Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to bring diverse perspectives together. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Solid business acumen, including experience with customer discovery, journey or process mapping, and data-informed decision-making. A customer-centric mindset with a passion for creating meaningful, usable, and impactful technology solutions. Ability to work agilely in a fast-evolving, innovative technology environment while maintaining clarity and focus. Preferred Skills & Experience Strong emphasis on UI/UX, user workflows, and data visualization for complex or analytical applications. Experience with Distributed Intelligence, grid-edge analytics, or data management platforms. Familiarity with electric utility distribution system operations, planning, DER integration, or smart grid technologies (e.g., ADMS, OMS, SCADA, grid analytics). Exposure to utility business cases, pricing strategies, or commercialization efforts. MBA or advanced technical degree. A collaborative, growth-oriented approach with a desire to continuously learn and improve. Education: Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience. Physical Demands: This is a typical office job, with no special physical requirements or unusual work environment. Benefits Info: This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule, and more! The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience and may vary by location. Liberty Lake, WA: The base salary is $96,000-$188,000. #LI-BJ1 Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. In the end, you may be just who we are looking for! The successful
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