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Team Lead Product Management - Grid Planning (all genders)
Cologne
Full-time
Permanent employee
About Working at envelio
Your Role
As Team Lead Product Management for Grid Planning, currently comprising five team members, you will take responsibility for the strategic direction and ongoing development of our solutions for grid planning and grid connection. These include binding and non-binding grid connection assessments, operational and strategic grid planning, and power system calculations in general. You will lead a team of Product Managers and a Staff Product Manager, enabling grid operators to process connection requests quickly, in compliance with regulatory requirements, and through automated workflows, while proactively planning their grids. You will take an end-to-end approach to workflows across applications – from connection requests and planning through to the handover to grid operations – and collaborate closely with the entire leadership team in our Tech organization. Drawing on your technical expertise and knowledge of grid planning processes, you will ensure that our products remain innovative and aligned with our customers’ long-term needs, particularly those of distribution system operators across Europe.
How You Make an Impact
Leadership Responsibilities
- Leadership & Coaching: You lead and develop a growing team of Product Managers and foster a motivating, collaborative environment.
- Team Building: You oversee recruitment, selection, and onboarding, and develop suitable roles and specializations within the team.
- Performance & Development: You set clear goals, monitor progress, and support your team’s development.
- Team Organization: You improve workflows and processes and collaborate closely with other tribes, particularly the Operations and Grid Hub tribes.
- Product Strategy: Together with the Product Leadership Team, you develop the strategy and roadmap for grid planning and grid connection, aligning them with company objectives, market needs, and customer requirements.
- End-to-End Thinking: You shape products around grid operators’ workflows – from connection requests through to implementation.
- Customers & Stakeholders: You support key customer projects and ensure effective collaboration across the relevant teams.
- Regulatory Compliance & Security: You incorporate regulatory requirements, critical infrastructure protection requirements (KRITIS), and IT security into the strategy and roadmap.
- Product Development & Domain Expertise: You evolve product management practices, including the use of AI, and contribute your expertise in grid planning and grid connection.
Your Profile
Perfection is a myth! We’re much more interested in the person behind the screen. Think of these criteria as guidelines rather than a checklist. We’re excited to see how your unique skills could complement our team.
- Experience: At least 3 years of experience in product management or delivering agile software development projects, as well as in building complex organizational structures or processes.
- Leadership Skills: Ideally, you have already successfully led a team and have experience building and developing highly motivated, high-performing teams.
- Communication Skills: You can communicate complex topics clearly and concisely and present them persuasively – to your team, customers, and management alike.
- Technical Expertise: You have a solid understanding of electrical engineering, particularly grid planning, grid connection assessments, and power system calculations (e.g., load flow and short-circuit calculations), and are familiar with agile software development processes.
- Industry Knowledge: You have a good understanding of the energy sector and its key challenges, including renewable energy integration, grid expansion and connection, and the digitalization of power grids.
- Analytical Thinking: You take a data-driven, solution-oriented approach to your work.
- Languages: You have excellent written and spoken German and English skills.
Your Benefits
- Join us fully remote or at our lovely office in Cologne in a hybrid working mode
- Option for remote work from abroad (up to 90 working days per year from anywhere in the EU or the USA)
- 30 holidays + 3 corporate holidays
- Support for your health through urban sports membership cooperations
- Professional mental wellbeing support through our partner nilo for you and your family
- Flexible use of a monthly mobility budget (e.g. Jobrad, ÖPNV)
- Time and resources for individual growth
- Regular tech and growth talks for internal knowledge sharing
- envelio pension plan
- Regular company and team events
About us
Intelligent grids for a sustainable future worldwide — this is our vision! Therefore, we are building the digital hub for the future of power grid management: The Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP). The IGP is the core of our software as a service solution. It’s our ambition to make the IGP and envelio 1 % better everyday. Grow with us!
As a remote-first company, we let you decide how much you want to work remotely – from 0% to 100%. Whether you live in Cologne or Aachen, Bonn or Berlin, Munich or Castrop-Rauxel; all you need is internet! You can also work from abroad for up to three months per year. Since 2017, we have built a diverse international team, with English as our company language.
As a remote-first company, we let you decide how much you want to work remotely – from 0% to 100%. Whether you live in Cologne or Aachen, Bonn or Berlin, Munich or Castrop-Rauxel; all you need is internet! You can also work from abroad for up to three months per year. Since 2017, we have built a diverse international team, with English as our company language.