[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Vibrant Planet

Role Description

Vibrant Planet seeks a Senior Product Manager to take an early-stage line of business from 0.5 to 100. The Senior Utilities PM will report to the Chief Product Officer and partner closely with fire science and analytics, application and data engineering, design, and business development to cover user experience, data flows, fire science, partnership and delivery mechanisms.

This individual will own customer research, user and API interfaces; co-own data strategies with the lead fire scientist and lead engineer; and play an essential role in developing key partnerships with the Utilities general manager. This is an opportunity to work with a top notch team on a product with significant impact on building wildfire and infrastructure resilience.

Responsibilities

• Customer Insight & Advocacy
  • Be the expert on named account user experiences - within Vibrant Planet applications and within their roles more broadly.
  • Use a wide range of quantitative and qualitative tools including direct interviews supported by vibe code prototypes, passive data collection and analysis, internet research, and survey research.
  • Advocate effectively for the interests of users with the business, design, and engineering.
  • Moderate “dogfooding” exercises (usage and testing of workflows and data from multiple customer points of view).
• Product Design & Delivery
  • Synthesize user needs and technical capabilities into coherent, prioritized features and products.
  • Own the product roadmap for assigned areas, prioritizing and making trade-offs transparently.
  • Collaborate with Design, Science, and Engineering to deliver effectively and on time.
  • Communicate team accomplishments, progress, and risks to leadership and to the company at large.
  • Provide material input to company strategy and investor docs.
• Business Strategy & Collaboration
  • Develop and pressure-test business cases for new product bets, including pricing, packaging, and go-to-market framing.
  • Create and articulate strategic differentiators (“the moat”).
  • Understand the importance of scientifically sound models and results.
  • Partner with leadership on how product investments map to company growth.
  • Support sales and marketing activities with training, collateral, and collaboration.
  • Contribute to proposals, pilots, and strategic account conversations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product management, with demonstrated experience owning complex B2B or B2G products.
• Track record of leading customer discovery with technical, expert, or enterprise customers and translating findings into product decisions.
• Zero-to-one experience, including business model definition, pricing input, and creating training and support as part of the product.
• Proven ability to work alongside deep domain experts (scientists, engineers, analysts) and add value.
• Significant experience in one or more of: electric utilities space, meteorology, fire modeling.
• Preferably: experience building products with a strong geospatial component.

Characteristics and Skills

• Emotional intelligence and situational leadership skills.
• Ability to turn observation into actionable insight.
• Ability to co-direct strong execution with a remote interdisciplinary team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfortable creating structure in an ambiguous environment.
• Detail oriented.
• Demonstrate optimistic realism.
• Excited to work in a startup environment.
• Passion for our mission.
• Able to travel occasionally (4-8 trips/year).

Location

We are a remote first company with the majority of the team in the US west coast and mountain time zones. Bay Area, Tahoe region, and Missoula, MT are preferred for this position. Pacific or Mountain Timezone hours are required, US location is required.

Compensation

$150,000-210,000 salary (DOE), plus equity and benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vibrant Planet is committed to diversity. We encourage applicants from all cultures, races, colors, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, or other status protected by law to apply.

We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may come from a less traditional background, but have capacity to grow into and thrive in the position after some mentoring.