Fractional Product Manager, Renewable Energy (LG NOVA)

LG Electronics is a global technology company, and its LG NOVA innovation center is developing an AI-powered platform for utility-scale renewable energy development. The Fractional Product Manager will define and execute the product roadmap, translate customer needs into product priorities, guide AI-powered product development, and help transition the platform from proof of concept to commercialization.

Responsibilities:

• Own and continuously refine the product roadmap
• Translate the company's vision and customer feedback into clear product priorities
• Define MVPs and prioritize features based on customer value, strategic importance, technical feasibility, and time to market
• Establish a disciplined product-development process as the company moves from POC to commercial product
• Maintain a clear distinction between must-have capabilities, near-term enhancements, and future opportunities
• Work directly with renewable energy developers to understand their workflows, pain points, and technology needs
• Participate in customer interviews, POC demos, and product feedback sessions
• Convert customer feedback into actionable product requirements rather than simply collecting feature requests
• Identify opportunities where AI can fundamentally improve the way renewable energy development is performed
• Help establish measurable product-market-fit indicators and customer success criteria
• Work closely with the engineering and AI teams to identify where AI can provide differentiated value
• Help define AI-powered workflows, agents, predictions, recommendations, and automation
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product experience rather than functioning as standalone features
• Help prioritize development of NovaDeveloper's proprietary renewable-energy knowledge model, data architecture, and intelligence layer
• Establish appropriate approaches to AI evaluation, accuracy, human review, and customer trust
• Develop clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product specifications
• Work closely with engineering to break large concepts into achievable development increments
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and product demonstrations
• Make rapid decisions when requirements or priorities are unclear
• Ensure products are tested against the actual workflows of renewable energy developers
• Serve as the primary bridge between customers, founders, domain experts, design, engineering, and sales
• Work closely with renewable energy development advisors to translate industry expertise into software requirements
• Partner with sales to ensure the roadmap supports actual commercial opportunities
• Help sales and customer-success teams understand product capabilities and limitations
• Communicate product priorities and tradeoffs clearly to company leadership

Requirements:

• experienced product leader
• Approximately 10 years product management experience in the Renewable Energy industry
• Project development experience - sizing, interconnect queues, power flow studies, tools like PVsyst, PVCase, ArcGIS, financial modeling, submitting proposals, managing RFPs, supplier bids, etc
• Significant successful product management experience
• meaningful experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise software
• Experience taking products from concept/MVP through commercialization
• Strong experience working directly with customers and translating customer problems into products
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with software engineering and technical teams
• Strong understanding of product discovery, prioritization, roadmapping, requirements, and agile development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable operating with significant ambiguity and limited resources
• Willingness to be highly hands-on
• Customer obsessed
• Technically curious
• Highly analytical
• Comfortable with AI
• An excellent communicator
• A strong prioritizer
• Entrepreneurial
• Low ego / high ownership
• Comfortable saying “no”
• Excited by ambiguous problems
• Able to move quickly without sacrificing product quality
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
• Preferably with building tools for the developers and IPPs
• ideally including meaningful experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise software
• Experience building AI/ML-powered software products, particularly generative AI or agentic applications
• Experience with enterprise workflow software, data platforms, knowledge graphs, or document intelligence
• Experience in energy, renewable energy, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or another complex technical industry
• Experience working at an early-stage startup
• Experience commercializing products with enterprise customers