Product Manager, Substation Design Automation

The Opportunity We seek a forward-thinking, innovative Product Manager to drive a strategic initiative focused on automating Power substation design work. This position offers an exciting opportunity to define and implement innovative and agile automation solutions that will drive our company’s efficiency and productivity for years to come.  This position works closely with internal experts, outside consultants, operations, and technology partners to develop a roadmap, create, and execute the strategic initiative for modular automation projects for power substations that utilize design authoring software and supporting software tools. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, initiative, innovation, and strategic thinking to ensure the successful implementation of automation initiatives and translate business needs and customer insight into clear product requirements. The Product Manager owns the product lifecycle by defining the strategic “why” and “what” in the roadmap and partnering with delivery teams to translate priorities into successful outcomes. By collaborating across functions, they drive impactful solutions that advance Ulteig’s digital transformation objectives, ensuring measurable outcomes through data-driven decision-making and agile practices. Success in this role is measured by product adoption, business impact, and effective stakeholder collaboration. What You’ll Do Product Execution & Delivery    * Identify and Frame Problems: Proactively engage with stakeholders and internal users to uncover, define, and articulate the most pressing technical challenges and opportunities. Ensure that product efforts are anchored in a deep understanding of the underlying problems, not just proposed solutions. Use research, data analysis, and direct feedback to validate problem statements before moving to solution design. * Define Product Vision & Roadmap: Own the 6 to 12-month product roadmap, ensuring alignment with Ulteig’s strategic objectives and customer needs. * Translate Vision into Action: Convert product strategy into clear requirements and actionable plans for design automation solution products. * Build the Business Case: Justify new features and initiatives by linking them to measurable business goals (e.g., “reduce manual data entry by 10 hours/week”). * Validate MVPs and Early Concepts: Define requirements for minimum viable products, prototypes, and pilot solutions, and use stakeholder and user feedback to test concepts before broader investment or rollout. * Own the Product Backlog: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, including writing clear features, requirements and defining acceptance criteria. * Support Daily Execution: Serve as the dedicated “go-to” person for the delivery team, answering questions, clarifying requirements, and making rapid prioritization calls. * Accept Completed Work: Review and accept completed user stories, ensuring they meet acceptance criteria and deliver intended value. * Manage Releases: Coordinate with the team and stakeholders to plan and communicate product releases. * Develop and Maintain Key Artifacts: Maintain product requirement documents, customer journey maps, voice of the customer analysis, product analytics, and business impact dashboards. Leadership & Development * Storytelling: Crafting compelling narratives that align diverse teams (business services, engineering, sales, and design) behind a single product vision. * Relationship Management: Navigate diverse team dynamics to build trust and drive alignment across competing interests. * Leading Through Ambiguity: Support product team morale and focus when strategies change rapidly due to new information or business priorities. * High emotional intelligence: Operational Excellence * Support Continuous Improvement: Champion technology adoption and process improvements within assigned product areas. * Drive Product Adoption: Partner with stakeholders to support adoption of new products, processes, and ways of working through change planning, communication, and adoption activities. * Monitor Product Performance: Use dashboards to track ROI, adoption, and business impact. * Define & Track Success: Establish and monitor KPIs and metrics that define success for your product. * Incorporate Market and Competitive Insights: Monitor industry trends, competitive offerings, and market signals to inform product strategy, prioritization, and decision-making. Stakeholder Collaboration * Manage Stakeholder Expectations: Act as the primary point of contact for your product, managing stakeholder expectations and communicating product vision and roadmap to business stakeholders. * Support Progress Communications: Partner with the delivery lead to support communication of delivery progress, key updates, and outcomes to stakeholders. * Conduct ‘Customer’ Research: Regularly meet with users and stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and needs. * Engage Cross-Functional Partners: Collaborate with business services teams and other partners to gather requirements, resolve issues, and drive alignment. * Drive Enablement and Client Engagement: Partner with stakeholders to develop product messaging and support demos and presentations. * Represent Product Value Clearly: Communicate product value propositions clearly and professionally to all stakeholders to reinforce benefits and support product adoption. Team Contribution & Growth * Contribute to Team Culture: Foster innovation, collaboration, and accountability within the product team. * Continuous Learning: Actively seek and act on feedback, participate in ongoing learning, and work toward shared team goals. Disclaimer: The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of this position. What We Expect from You * Degree in Engineering, Design, Business Management, or other related field; consideration will be given to relevant experience. * Requires 8+ years of experience in design-related fields; hands-on automation, digital design, or BIM experience preferred. * Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple, concurrent projects and workstreams while meeting aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with extensive project planning and execution skills. * Excellent problem-solving and relationship-building skills. * Strong communication skills, written, verbal, and interpersonal. * Knowledge and proficiency in the primary design authoring and supporting software platforms that will be utilized for these applications. * Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement. * Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S Competency Profile: * Client Success: Develops cross-functional shared goals and demonstrates accountability for achieving them. Ensures (external and internal) client needs are met through planning, utilization of metrics, communication, and personal accountability.  * Integrity: Takes ownership to manage and deliver work; holds self accountable. Listens with empathy and responds to others' ideas, perspectives, and concerns. Makes financially responsible decisions to maximize resources and budgets that optimize Ulteig's success.  * Enthusiasm: Energizes people and models optimism in the face of disruption. Builds alignment between organizational and personal purpose. Invests time to understand others' motivations and perspectives to build strong working relationships. Delivers timely and impactful communications that create alignment and consistency across the organization.  * Inclusion: Combines and amplifies different strengths, capabilities, and perspectives across the groups they work with. Fosters a sense of belonging and encourages others to bring their full selves to work. Builds trust with colleagues by engaging with transparency, empathy, and authenticity. Advocates for equitable opportunities across the teams and partners they collaborate with.  * Agility: Celebrates and recognizes contributions, learning, and growth, even through failed ideas. Thinks beyond current work (futuristically) and encourages others to do the same. Takes ownership for change management; understands and clearly communicates the "why", gains buy-in, and manages resistance through change. Navigates ambiguity, assesses situations, and makes informed decisions.   * Innovation: Operates with autonomy and flexibility to innovate and acts rapidly. Champions and models continuous new technology and skills development, and drives adoption across the organization.        As you consider applying for a position at Ulteig, we encourage you to think outside the box – because we do! You might not meet 100% of the skills listed in a description, but we are committed to hiring people with exceptional talent, ability and potential, and then creating an environment where they can become the best versions of themselves. We don’t want to miss out on the possibility of speaking with the next outstanding Ulteig team members, so please apply if you think this role is a great match for your unique skills and strengths. And, yes, relevant military experience is absolutely considered for transitioning service members.   What You Can Expect from Ulteig Ulteig is a purpose-driven organization that has built a culture focused on people, both our clients and our employees, for over 80 years. Working at Ulteig is more than a job, opening opportunities to make an impact by creating and solving for a sustainable future. We recognize our success relies heavily on the dedication and focus of our workforce; this is why we make investing in our employees a top priority. We prioritize flexibility and staying connected to meeting your needs and help you achieve your goals. We value your unique perspective, respect your individuality, and celebrate your contributions. At Ulteig, we take our success and the success of our clients personally. We offer our team members: * Flexible Workplace * Employee Ownership * Competitive Pay * Comprehensive Benefits Package * Collaborative Environment * Innovative Culture Our vision is to be the most trusted partners transforming our world’s critical infrastructure. Ulteig connects people and resources to develop compelling, integrated solutions across multiple Lifeline Sectors®, including Power, Renewables, Transportation and Water. Ulteig is a trusted partner in engineering North America’s essential infrastructure and leverages its expertise with a wide range of public and private clients.  At Ulteig, we care deeply about our team, listening to their needs and ensuring they have the tools necessary to be productive, whether they choose to work remotely, hybrid, or in the office. Regardless of where you work, you are empowered to build a workday that best suits your strengths. We strive to ensure a balance and separation between home and work life. We support a flexible working schedule, so employees are able to focus on what's important to them. If you would like to be a part of a company that empowers their employees, apply today!    Ulteig is a Drug-Free Workplace  ACHIEVE | GROW | COLLABORATE Additional Opportunity Details: Target Base Compensation Range for this role is $111,200 - $150,400 * Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your job-specific skills, education, training, job location, number of years of experience related to this role and comparison to other employees already in this role. This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 60 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled. Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: To protect the interests of all parties, Ulteig Engineers, Inc., will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate or an approved vendor that has a written and signed agreement in place with Ulteig. Please do not contact or forward resumes to our company employees or locations. Any unsolicited resumes will be considered Ulteig property. Ulteig is not responsible for any charges or fees related to unsolicited resumes