Hiring Entity: FlexEnergi
Location: Remote (Canada)
Status: Exempt
Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000 CAD
Job Title: Technical Product Manager – Platforms & Integrations
Position Description
We are seeking a technically strong, hands-on Technical Product Manager – Platforms & Integrations to help build and scale our Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform.
In this role, you'll work across Product, Engineering, customers, and technology partners to understand business needs, shape product solutions, and drive platform capabilities and external integrations from discovery through launch. You'll contribute to product priorities and own assigned initiatives, balancing customer value, technical feasibility, and business objectives. You'll bring strong technical understanding and product judgment to define requirements, evaluate solutions, and make informed decisions in close collaboration with engineering.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Product Management & Execution
- Partner with the Head of Product and peers to align priorities, scope, and delivery plans with the product roadmap.
- Translate business and customer needs into detailed product requirements, specifications, user stories, workflows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Independently lead assigned product initiatives from discovery through launch, driving decisions, stakeholder alignment, and product acceptance.
- Break complex initiatives into manageable deliverables, identify dependencies, and collaborate with engineering to evaluate technical options, trade-offs, and resolve ambiguity.
- Work with engineering throughout development to ensure solutions meet product requirements, address risks and gaps, and are ready for launch.
- Collaborate with customers, Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success to understand business needs, evaluate solutions, and support utility RFP responses and product launches.
External Systems & Third-Party Integrations
- Drive integrations between FlexEnergi and external technology platforms from discovery through launch.
- Work with device OEMs, technology partners, and utility vendors to understand capabilities, limitations, and integration requirements.
- Define end-to-end integration workflows, including onboarding, authentication, data exchange, synchronization, device control, and exception handling.
- Evaluate integration opportunities based on customer needs, business value, technical feasibility, and implementation effort.
Examples of integration domains and technologies:
- Distributed energy resources: EVs, EV chargers, batteries, smart thermostats, water heaters, and building management systems.
- DER integration platforms: OEM APIs, device aggregators, telematics providers, and hardware gateways.
- Utility and enterprise systems: CIS, MDMS, billing, CRM, identity management, and analytics platforms.
- Grid operations systems: SCADA, ADMS, and other operational technology platforms.
- Industry protocols and standards: OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, DNP3, Modbus, and BACnet.
Platform Product Management
- Define requirements for core platform capabilities, including APIs, data models, shared services, and device lifecycle management (onboarding, enrollment, monitoring, and configuration).
- Identify gaps and opportunities to simplify, improve, or standardize platform functionality across customers and integrations.
- Collaborate with engineering to evaluate technical approaches and ensure solutions meet functional, performance, reliability, and security requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, business, or a related discipline.
- 4+ years of experience in technical or software product management, with demonstrated ownership of complex software products, platform capabilities, or integrations from requirements through delivery.
- Proven ability to translate business and customer needs into clear product requirements, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong understanding of APIs, integration patterns, data models, and authentication, with the ability to evaluate technical options and work effectively with engineering.
- Strong product judgment and organizational skills to prioritize competing needs, manage ambiguity, coordinate stakeholders, and make practical trade-offs.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Industry experience in one or more of the following:
- Electric utilities, renewable energy, power distribution systems, or electricity markets (ISO/RTO).
- DERMS, VPPs, demand response, or grid flexibility programs.
- Utility systems, DER technologies, or third-party integrations described above.
- Experience in a startup, growth-stage technology company, or other fast-moving product environment.
- Advanced degree.
About Us
FlexEnergi is solving some of the toughest challenges facing today’s utilities. With rising data center demand, more renewables, capacity shortages, and increasing extreme weather, utilities need reliable capacity that can be deployed fast and affordably. Our innovative business model delivers the lowest-cost, fastest-to-deploy capacity on the market. We’re a small, nimble, and innovative company that moves quickly, experiments boldly, and rethinks how the grid can improve quickly. Joining FlexEnergi means helping build technology that strengthens reliability, resilience, and sustainability at scale. FlexEnergi proudly operates as part of the Accurant International portfolio of companies.
Accurant Family of companies offer innovative solutions to tackle pressing climate and energy technology challenges through our portfolio companies. Our investments include fields around energy and clean-tech ranging from renewable energy management, smart grid technologies, grid automation and management, demand response and virtual power plants, distribution system sensors and AI analytics, and professional services and expert consulting.
Culture
Privately owned, friendly and family-oriented company with growth and advancement opportunities and learning new advanced technologies. We are a customer focused and employee centered organization. Innovation is the core of our business philosophy.
It is the policy of FlexEnergi not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status.
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Employer Paid Life Insurance, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
- Competitive 401(k) Match – Up to 6%
- Performance Based Bonus
- Potential Profit Sharing
- Paid Time Off, Holidays and Other Paid Leave