Program Manager (Product Development)

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

 

We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. 

ABOUT THE POSITION

In this role you will work hand in hand with really smart and experienced development engineers and product managers. You will be planning and ensuring your product development program stays on track and on budget. You will be exposed to the Executive Leadership when presenting the status of your programs and proposing trade-offs for course correction.

As a program manager, you’ll analyze your programs with a broad view of the activities being developed by different cross-functional teams. Your primary responsibility is to ensure that milestones in you program are agreed and understood by the team members assigned to your program by their functional leads, in order to guarantee program execution and new product/feature delivery.

You can think of yourself as a “meta-project manager,” strategically and simultaneously orchestrating all program’s intertwined projects being developed by different teams resulting in a deliverable product to our customers.

Typical day-to-day program management activities include:

· Planning and monitoring program execution.

· Project coordination and managing project interdependencies.

· Creating and managing a budget.

· Cross-project resource management.

· Identifying and addressing blockers and risks.

· Program documentation.

· Stakeholder communications, negotiations, and problem-solving.

· Aligning or realigning deliverables with program outcomes.