Senior Product Expert - Substation & Grounding

Senior Product Expert

Location: Portland, OR; Philadelphia PA

Position Summary:

Bentley is creating a new purpose built intelligent substation design application to empower designers and engineers with a truly intuitive, connected, and collaborative experience.  Our work will help utilities worldwide more efficiently and effectively build and maintain their substations.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Expert to join our team, contribute to and drive product development, and support product launch.  This role will have a significant focus on electrical schematic & wiring features and grounding systems, but will support the full scope of design needs.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and collaborate on product strategy, roadmap, and execution for substation products and partnerships
• Be at the intersection of technology, people, and business - coordinating product strategy, integrations, dependencies, development, and business relationships
• Work with engineering/development to design, develop, and launch
• Organize and derive market trends from internal and external research, customer feedback, and broad market input to improve and build new features and products
• Facilitate alignment for a diverging set of inputs and people to converge on strong, bought-in decisions
• Be involved in all stages of product lifecycle
• Engage the industry as a Bentley representative and technical expert
• Build and manage the product backlog with the cross-functional team
• Define, monitor, and analyze metrics for product functionalities and feed learnings back into product development process
• Support the Product Marketing team to deliver product positioning and content

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience with substation design technical process and details in a consulting or utility environment, or equivalent
• Strong experience with substation electrical schematic / wiring / protection & control design & construction
• Strong experience with substation grounding system design and analysis. XGSLab experience is preferred.
• Experience with substation physical design & construction
• Experience with utility EMF studies a plus
• You obsess over priorities, creating impact, and constantly test them against strategy and goals.
• Fantastic communication skills and interpersonal savvy. You can communicate with executive leadership as well as you can with engineers.
• You are likely to have a technical education, such as an undergrad or masters degree in electrical engineering, or you have equivalent proven work experience.
• A professional engineering (PE) license is a plus
• This role will require occasional travel and time zone management as part of a global team.
• Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer (or any other physical requirements).
• Product Management and/or Software Development experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication as well as strong presentation skills. 

What We Offer:

• A great Team and culture – please see our Recruitment Video.

• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction.
• Competitive Salary and benefits.
• The opportunity to work within a global and diversely international team.
• A supportive and collaborative environment.
• Colleague Recognition Awards