Product Owner

About the Company

Yes Energy develops real-time electric power market data and analytics tools that help market participants make better trading and investment decisions. Its software gives users visibility into the North American electrical grid and the data signals that influence pricing, congestion, transmission, and generation. The company has been serving power market professionals since 2008 and supports customers across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Role Overview

The Product Owner is responsible for making sure product teams build the right work, in the right sequence, with enough detail to execute effectively. This position owns the backlog for one or more product teams and turns customer insight, business goals, and technical realities into clear priorities for engineering.

You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, UX Designers, Support, Customer Success, and Sales. The role includes direct customer interaction, writing actionable user stories, coordinating sprint-level decisions, and explaining tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders. Success in this role requires strong organization, curiosity, direct communication, and comfort in a fast-changing environment with complex data and demanding users.

Position Details

• Base salary range: USD 95,000 to 120,000
• Locations: Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Houston, TX
• Employment: full-time
• Work setup: hybrid, with 2 days per week in the office
• Reports to: Director of Product
• Travel expectation: 10% for client visits and internal office collaboration

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a prioritized and well-groomed product backlog that reflects customer value, business strategy, and engineering capacity.
• Make clear, defensible prioritization calls each sprint and explain the reasoning behind them.
• Draft precise user stories with acceptance criteria that developers can build against and QA can validate.
• Break larger initiatives into sprint-ready work while preserving the business context.
• Lead agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Keep the team aligned, unblocked, and focused on the most important outcomes.
• Act as the product decision-maker within the agile team.
• Connect Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, and customers, while communicating tradeoffs and facilitating constructive discussion.
• Use analytics, customer usage signals, support patterns, and market feedback to guide prioritization and feature planning.
• Define and monitor success metrics for releases and features.
• Work with UX, data engineering, QA, and platform teams to ensure solutions are practical, well-designed, and deliverable.
• Identify cross-team dependencies early and resolve them before they become blockers.
• Coordinate releases with engineering and keep Customer Success and Sales informed about release readiness.
• Ensure launches are documented, communicated, and tied to measurable outcomes.
• Track feature adoption after launch and close the loop with customers on what was delivered and how it performs.
• Build working knowledge of North American power markets, ISO/RTO structure, energy pricing, and how customers use the company’s data products.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst in a software product environment.
• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum practices, including sprint ceremonies, backlog management, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical and business topics to different audiences.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, design, QA, and customer-facing teams.
• Proven ability to balance competing priorities and make transparent, defensible tradeoff decisions.
• Working knowledge of Agile project tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Comfort working in technically complex, data-heavy product environments where requirements may change.

Preferred Qualifications

• CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe POPM certification is preferred.
• Strong familiarity with Agile software development frameworks and Jira.
• Ability to use SQL, Snowflake, Sigma, or Tableau for self-serve product analysis.
• Experience defining product KPIs, usage metrics, and adoption indicators.
• Structured problem-solving approach with comfort handling messy, ambiguous challenges.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT to support story drafting, research synthesis, prototyping, and agentic development workflows.
• Strong SQL skills and direct experience with platforms such as Snowflake, Oracle, Tableau, or Sigma for independent product insight generation.
• Experience working with Sales and Customer Success to capture market signals and support go-to-market execution.
• Attention to detail and the ability to balance multiple stakeholder priorities.
• Exposure to North American power markets, ISO/RTO operations, energy data products, financial data, or regulated, real-time analytics products is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

Yes Energy offers competitive pay, performance-linked bonuses, medical insurance, a 401(k) plan with matching, flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules. The company also supports both formal and informal professional development.

Additional Information

Applicants are encouraged to apply even if their background does not match every listed qualification, as the company values diverse experience and learning potential.

Yes Energy is an equal opportunity employer and provides employment decisions without regard to protected characteristics, in line with federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws.

The company does not accept resumes from third-party recruiters or agencies and is not open to external recruiting partnerships.

The salary range shown reflects a Colorado-based estimate of base pay; the final offer may vary based on location, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Energy market experience is not required, but a genuine interest in learning the domain is important.

Travel of about 10% is required for customer-site visits and internal collaboration.