Technical Product Manager - Platforms & Integrations

Hiring Entity: Flex Energi

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.

• 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.

• Drive integrations between Flex Energi 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,…