Product Owner

Job description

**Join the Market Leader in Electric Power Data and Analytics Solutions** The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose. **Be a part of our successful, growing business during international transformation.** **Position Summary****:** Yes Energy’s products help power market analysts, traders, and asset managers understand the North American electric grid in real time — pricing, congestion, transmission, generation, and the complex data flows that drive decisions worth billions of dollars. The Product Owner sits at the center of how we turn that data and customer insight into software that works. This role exists to ensure our engineering teams are always building the right things, in the right order, with enough clarity to execute. You will own the product backlog for one or more of Yes Energy’s product teams — managing a prioritized queue of work that reflects real customer needs, business strategy, and technical reality. You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, UX Designers, Support, Customer Success, and Sales. You will talk to customers directly. You will write user stories that engineers can act on and stakeholders can understand. You will make tradeoff decisions every sprint and communicate those decisions clearly. The person who succeeds in this role is organized, curious, direct, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with complex data and demanding customers. Energy market experience is not required — but a genuine interest in learning it is. **Position Details:** - Salary Range: $95,000-120,000 USD - Location: Yes Energy Core Offices (Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Houston, TX) - Full-time - Hybrid - 2 days in the office - Reporting to: Director of Product - Travel requirements**:** 10% travel required for client sites and internal office collaboration **Primary Responsibilities:** - **Product Backlog Ownership:** Own and maintain a prioritized, well-groomed product backlog that reflects customer value, business strategy, and engineering capacity. Make active, defensible prioritization decisions every sprint — and be able to explain them. - **User Story Ownership:** Write clear, actionable user stories with acceptance criteria that engineering can implement and QA can test. Decompose epics into sprint-ready work without losing the business context behind each request. - **Agile Team Leadership:** Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Keep the team focused, unblocked, and aligned on what matters most. Serve as the product decision-maker within the Agile team. - **Stakeholder Alignment:** Serve as the bridge between Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, and customers. Communicate tradeoffs clearly, facilitate productive disagreements, and ensure stakeholders understand what is being built and why. - **Data-Driven Decision Making:** Use product analytics, customer usage data, support trends, and market feedback to inform prioritization. Define and track success metrics for features and releases. Challenge assumptions with evidence. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner with UX designers, data engineers, QA, and platform teams to ensure solutions are feasible, well-designed, and ready for delivery. Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies before they become blockers. - **Product Delivery & Release Coordination:** Coordinate releases with engineering and communicate release readiness to Customer Success and Sales. Ensure launches are documented, clearly communicated, and tied to measurable outcomes. - **Adoption & Engagement:** Track adoption of shipped features, surface usage data to the team, and close the feedback loop with customers. Delivery is not the finish line — adoption and value realization are. - **Domain Learning:** Develop working knowledge of North American power markets, ISO/RTO structure, energy pricing, and how Yes Energy’s customers use our data. You do not need to arrive as an expert — but you need to be willing to become one. **Minimum Qualifications:** - 1+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst in a software product environment - Demonstrated Agile/Scrum experience: sprint ceremonies, backlog management, user story writing, and acceptance criteria definition - Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to translate complex technical and business concepts clearly for different audiences - Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, QA, and customer-facing teams - Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and make transparent, defensible tradeoff decisions - Proficiency with Agile project management tooling (Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent) - Comfort operating in technically complex, data-intensive product environments with ambiguous or evolving requirements - Comfort using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) as accelerators in product work: drafting user stories, synthesizing research, prototyping, and collaborating with engineering. We expect practitioners, not observers - Proficiency with Google Workspace or Microsoft Office, including spreadsheet fundamentals and collaborative document tools - Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Geography/GIS, or a related field (or equivalent experience) **Key Competencies & Preferred Qualifications:** **Agile Product Ownership** - CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe POPM certification (preferred, not required) - Strong proficiency working with Agile software development frameworks and project tracking tools, specifically Jira. **Data Analysis & Metrics** - Ability to work with SQL, Snowflake, Sigma, or Tableau for self-service product analytics - Experience defining and tracking product KPIs, usage metrics, and feature adoption indicators - A structured thinker who is undaunted by messy problems and committed to uncovering root causes and scalable solutions. **Technical Fluency** - AI-Augmented Execution: Use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT) as active accelerators across product ownership work — drafting and refining user stories, synthesizing customer research, vibe coding prototypes, and collaborating with engineering in agentic development workflows. We expect our POs to be practitioners, not observers, when it comes to AI-enabled ways of working. - Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with data platforms such as Snowflake, Oracle, Tableau, or Sigma to independently query, manipulate, and extract product insights — without relying on a data analyst to do it for you. **Stakeholder Management** - Experience partnering with Sales and Customer Success to gather market signals and support go-to-market execution - High attention to detail and ability to balance competing demands from multiple internal and external stakeholders. **Energy Market Knowledge** - Exposure to North American power markets, ISO/RTO operations, or energy data products is a strong differentiator - Background in financial data, real-time market analytics, or complex data products in regulated industries is relevant **At Yes Energy, we value connecting directly with candidates. We kindly ask that third-party recruiters and agencies not submit resumes, as we are not open to external recruiting partnerships.** **About Yes Energy** **Overview** Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions. Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily. The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers. Yes Energy has a team of amazing professionals across the United States, Europe, and Asia. **Culture** Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying “Yes” to customers. We like to listen, learn, and develop solutions that align with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful … we are more successful, too. Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of: - We love innovation and solving tough challenges. - We are “high standards people” who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds- with a consistent ethic across the company. - We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy. We work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the business's success. - We play to each person's strengths and experience while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area. This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills and an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways. - We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year. At Yes Energy, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. **Compensation and Benefits** We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package is also very competitive, including medical insurance, a 401 (k) Plan with matching, flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules. Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development. In accordance with Colorado law, the range provided is Yes Energy’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. *Yes Energy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Yes Energy complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.*