Product Manager, Boulder, CO
About Ascend
Ascend Analytics’ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition.. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serves as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.
Your Impact at Ascend Analytics
We are looking for a Product Manager to join our team. This position will be a key member of Ascend’s PowerSIMM team, serving in a cross-functional role to shape the future of our products that create a more effective and efficient energy transition. The position will support Ascend’s existing software product line that delivers financial insight to clean energy developers, investors, and operators. As a leader at Ascend, you will foster an environment of innovation and customer-focus while facilitating the product development process. This role will be focused on the core activities of SaaS product management, such as maintaining the strategic product roadmap, scoping features, prioritizing backlog, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver more value to our customers.
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to maintain the product roadmap and backlog for Ascend’s PowerSIMM product
- Define requirements and design solutions for new features with analysts and UI designers
- Integrate with the engineering team to support product development and feature delivery
- Conduct backlog grooming and prioritization with existing product management team
- Take ownership of complex projects and be able to perform independent communications and research
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- 4+ years of professional experience in a relevant field (either product or energy)
- Possess strong organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail
- Experience managing complex projects and delivering results to customers
- Ability to distill complex ideas and translate them into terms relevant to disparate stakeholders, including engineers, designers, subject matter experts, and lay people
- Strong teamwork skills and work ethic
- Clear and succinct communication practices – verbal and written
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in product management – 2+ years
- Familiarity with wholesale power markets, renewables development and trading
- Advanced optimization or forecast modeling capability, demonstrated either professionally or academically
- Experience with agile product development and associated tools
Compensation: $120,000 – $160,000
Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average.
We offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Ascend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]
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What We Do
Founded in 2002, Ascend is an employee owned software service company based in Boulder, Colorado. Ascend’s management team has over 60 years of direct energy experience. Our focus remains the analytic and data infrastructure to support decision analysis from the next hour to the next thirty years. Ascend has utilized the latest technologies and modeling techniques to allow energy analysts and risk managers to meet today’s challenges.
Primary Software Uses:
* Portfolio Analysis * Asset Valuation * Hedge Optimization * Planning & Budgeting
* Capacity Expansion* Risk & Scenario Analysis
Ascend Analytics has combined industry leading model capability with robust client support. This has allowed our customers to dramatically improve decision analysis and gain competitive advantage in the marketplace.
