Product Strategy & Development Associate II

Posted 11 Days Ago
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Irving, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Develops energy products, programs, and partnerships from ideation through market launch. Evaluates commercial viability using financial and customer-margin modeling, translates complex energy concepts into customer offerings, manages product verticals, and supports marketing, sales, and optimization strategies. Collaborates with technology, operations, finance, legal, marketing, sales, and external vendors to design programs, negotiate agreements, and execute go-to-market plans for distributed energy resources such as EVs, solar, batteries, virtual power plants, and demand response.
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Job Description

Overview:

  • Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and takes an innovative, customer-centric approach to meet customers' needs. To win the customer of the future, our Energy Transition Solutions team creates the strategy and builds the products that turn today's emerging energy technologies into real solutions
  • In this role, you’ll leverage Distributed Energy Resources – EVs, home solar, whole-home batteries, and more – to create products, programs, and services that unlock new value for consumers and strengthen the grid 
  • You’ll own concepts from whiteboard to market launch: ideation, economic modeling, vendor partnerships and operational rollout of new products from virtual power plants to electricity commodity plans
  • It’s a hands-on role that mixes analysis, creative problem solving, and day-to-day execution. You’ll collaborate across marketing, technology, operations and finance plus a diverse set of vendors from technology providers to global device manufacturers

Responsibilities:

  • Leverage analytical and financial analysis skills to assess the commercial viability of potential offerings and recommend program designs that meet necessary financial metrics (margin, sales, ROI, etc.)
  • Transform complex energy ideas to simple, easy to understand customer offerings
  • Generate new concepts through proven ideation methodologies and opportunistic thinking
  • Understand your target audience, analyze research insights & trends, identify opportunities, and ultimately propose & deliver products/programs/partnerships
  • Lead the implementation of new products through ideation, program design, and market launch which will require working with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Manage key product verticals and support product optimization (product design, marketing and sales tactics/strategy) to achieve sales goals for new products
  • External partner relationship cultivation and management to define new programs & business models, negotiate commercial agreements, and define & execute the go-to-market workplan

Requirements:

  • 5+ years work experience in retail-focused product development, offer/channel strategy, marketing or related function
  • 3+ years with financial modeling or customer margin analysis (related to above)
  • Experience with energy or alternative energy products (solar, battery, EVs, VPPs, Demand Response) strongly preferred
  • Proficiency in excel based modeling required, SAS/Tableau experience beneficial; willingness and ability to learn new systems as required (e.g., CRM tools)
  • Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills
  • Requires strong sense of self-motivation, thrives under minimal supervision, excels at solving complex problems and enjoys working around obstacles
  • Extensive communication and teamwork skills to work effectively with both internal and external customers (e.g., vendors, Marketing, Sales, IT, Legal, Operations, Finance)
  • Demonstrate a high level of curiosity, a capacity for learning, and an aptitude for problem solving
  • Able to effectively contribute to and/or lead small work groups

Key Metrics:

  • Hit target goals for product launches, pilots and tests
  • Plan, lead and launch key initiatives in a matrixed environment
  • Realize product targets for sales velocity, retention, and/or profitability
  • Achieve product / partner targets for customer satisfaction, complaints, incidents and escalations

Job Family

Marketing

Company

Vistra Retail Operations Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

Texas
We are a company of people committed to:  Exceeding Customer Expectations, Great People, Teamwork, Competitive Spirit and Effective Communication.  If this describes you, then apply today!

If you currently work for Vistra or its subsidiaries, please apply via the internal career site.

It is the policy of the Company to comply with all employment laws and to afford equal employment opportunity to individuals in all aspects of employment, including in selection for job opportunities, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service, protected veteran status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws.

 

If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance submitting an application or would like to request an accommodation, please email us at [email protected] to make a request.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience in retail-focused product development, offer or channel strategy, marketing, or a related function
  • 3+ years of experience with financial modeling or customer margin analysis
  • Proficiency in Excel-based modeling
  • Experience with energy or alternative energy products, including solar, batteries, EVs, VPPs, or demand response
  • SAS experience
  • Tableau experience
  • College degree and/or relevant certifications
  • Ability to learn new systems, including CRM tools
  • Strong self-motivation and ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Complex problem-solving and obstacle-navigation skills
  • Extensive communication and teamwork skills with internal and external stakeholders
  • Curiosity, capacity for learning, and aptitude for problem solving
  • Ability to contribute to or lead small work groups
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The Company
HQ: Causeway Bay
1,186 Employees

What We Do

Vistra is a premier, integrated, Fortune 300 energy company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive power markets in the U.S. and markets in Canada and Japan, as well.

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