Principal IT Product Owner

Date Posted: 04/20/2026 Hiring Organization: Rose International Position Number: 500049 Industry: Utility Job Title: Principal IT Product Owner Job Location: Oakland, CA, USA, 94612 Work Model: Hybrid Work Model Details: Hybrid 2 days per month onsite Employment Type: Temporary FT/PT: Full-Time Estimated Duration (In months): 13 Min Hourly Rate($): 100.00 Max Hourly Rate($): 130.00 Must Have Skills/Attributes: Cybersecurity, Product Design Experience Desired: building and scaling consumer digital products Experience (12 yrs); leading teams in a senior product capacity. (5+ yrs) Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree C2C is not available Job Description Education: • Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business, or Computer Science. Top Skills: (1) Led a flagship consumer digital mobile product end-to-end (2) senior product leadership in complex, regulated or systems-heavy environments; (3) executive-level influence combined with hands-on delivery Minimum Experience: • 12+ years building and scaling consumer digital products, including 5+ years leading teams in a senior product capacity. • Experience with Distributed Energy Resources and consumer energy products • Proven ability to influence executives and drive alignment without dilution of product integrity, while still obtaining breakthrough outcomes. • Strong design judgment; demonstrated ability to recognize and demand design excellence. • Technical fluency sufficient to engage in architectural and feasibility discussions. Desired Experience: • Experience in energy, utilities, hardware-software systems, or regulated environments strongly preferred. • Experience developing first-to-market products. Head of Product - Mobile Application Department: Grid Research Innovation & Development Team Summary Help us change the electric utility industry from the inside! Join a small, fast paced, high-performing team within Client Company that is working on a portfolio of exciting and innovative projects to transform the electric grid into a smarter grid that works with and for our customers. The GRiD team is charting the future of the utility and the energy industry as part of the Strategy & Innovation division of Client. Role Overview This role would lead a foundational initiative to redefine how Client serves customers through a unified, consumer-grade digital experience. The Head of Product will be accountable for the product vision, strategy, and outcomes for a first-of-its-kind utility mobile application. This role is responsible and accountable for every facet of the product including the customer experience, product roadmap, integration to the business, and investment tradeoffs, while reporting progress and decisions to executive leadership. This leader is both visionary and hands-on - equally effective in shaping executive alignment and making day-to-day product decisions that move delivery forward. This role will start as an individual contributor, with matrixed organizational support, growing to include direct support roles as needed. This role may convert from a contract position to a permanent position in the future depending on evolution of the product and maturation of the supporting business function. Key Responsibilities • Own and evolve the end-to-end product vision for Client Mobile Application (also known as "Project Charlie"), grounded in customer needs, system realities, and Client long-term strategy. • Set and enforce experience standards that materially raise Client bar for consumer experience. • Make final calls on roadmap prioritization, scope, and investment tradeoffs based on impact to customers, time, cost, and risk. • Actively define and strengthen how Client understands product leadership, customer digital experience, and product decision-making. • Partner closely with Customer, IT, and Innovation teams as well as engineering, design, data, and operations to translate vision into execution. Build and manage relationships with additional support functions including finance, privacy, legal, cybersecurity as needed. • Work with and inform the customer-device and grid-edge strategy (e.g., disaggregation, AMI 2.0, and emerging solutions). • Represent Charlie with executive stakeholders, regulators as needed, and internal leadership forums. • Oversees day-to-day work of development team including coaching and mentoring others to improve their knowledge or skills. Desired Characteristics • Bias toward action, concise, and passionate • Removes barriers to products and projects moving forward in an autonomous fashion • Able to operate at different levels of abstraction, outcome focused while understanding and adhering to process where necessary • Empathic and curious - has an ability to seek to understand while driving towards shared outcomes • Handles multiple projects and stakeholders and pushes for pace with self-directed drive. What Success Looks Like • Deploy a delightful Mobile App experience which is delivered on time and budget which sets the bar for what an amazing utility energy experience looks like. • Executives can clearly articulate Project Charlie's value, direction, and "buy in" to the product and approach. • Product decisions consistently favor customer and system impact over convenience. • Client expectations for digital experience shift meaningfully upward. Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered. Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements. Benefits : For information and details on employment benefits offered with this position, please visit here. Should you have any questions/concerns, please contact our HR Department via our secure website. California Pay Equity: For information and details on pay equity laws in California, please visit the State of California Department of Industrial Relations' website here. Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances. Rose International has an official agreement (ID ), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.)