Principal Product Owner

Requisition ID # 174973  Job Category: Information Technology  Job Level: Manager/Principal Business Unit: Technology & Security Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Oakland     Department Overview   Enterprise Data delivers on the outcome that trusted data shall empower everyone to deliver on our purpose and stands.  We bring together data management, governance, engineering, analytics, architecture, and platforms to help the company solve its most consequential challenges.   Position Summary   Are you the person people seek out when the problem is messy, the stakeholders disagree, and nobody is quite sure where to start?    Do you instinctively look for the connections others miss?  Can you move between executives, engineers, architects, analysts, and business leaders and somehow get everyone focused on the same outcome?  Are you more interested in creating value than defending a process, a technology, or an organizational boundary?    If your heart picked up reading those questions, then keep reading.    PG&E's Enterprise Data department is looking for a Principal Product Owner to serve as the connective tissue across our enterprise data ecosystem.    Most organizations have specialists.  Data engineers engineer.  Architects architect.  Analysts analyze. Governance people govern. The challenge is that business problems do not care how we are organized.    This role exists to connect the pieces and maximize the value they create.    You will work with business leaders to understand their challenges, connect them to the right enterprise capabilities, and help guide investments across data, analytics, governance, architecture, and technology platforms.  Sometimes that means creating something new. Often it means helping the company realize greater value from the investments it has already made.    You will help answer the questions that matter: Are we solving the right problem?  Are we creating needle-moving value?  Are we getting enough value to justify continued investment?  What should we build, improve, expand, consolidate, and - gasp - retire?    You are part strategist, part translator, part diplomat, and a little bit troublemaker.  You are curious.  When you get up in the morning, you are thinking about how you will collaborate today.  You thrive in ambiguity, love it, see it as your opportunity, your playground.  Your favorite T-shirt says "I change the things I cannot accept" - status quo is not your thing.    In this role, data is not the destination.  Value is.    This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and at the Oakland Corporate Office approximately 1 - 2 days per week, or more, based on business needs.    Job Responsibilities

You ensure value is realized o    You start with outcomes, not solutions. o    You distinguish what people ask for from what they actually need. o    You connect investments, capabilities, and enterprise priorities to measurable business value. o    You establish visibility into whether value is actually being realized over time. o    You recommend improving, expanding, consolidating, or ruthlessly retiring investments based on evidence rather than enthusiasm.

You connect the pieces o    You serve as the connective tissue between business leaders, data teams, technology teams, and major programs. o    You connect business challenges to the data, analytics, governance, architecture, and technology capabilities needed to address them. o    You help people see dependencies, opportunities, and relationships that are not immediately obvious. o    You identify opportunities to leverage existing investments before creating new ones. o    You bring together stakeholders around outcomes that no single organization can achieve alone.

You align strategy, capabilities, roadmaps, and investments o    You translate business priorities into enterprise