Grid Edge Intelligence Portfolio Marketing & Solutions Strategy

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $218K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and evolve the Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio strategy, messaging, and value proposition, and lead cross‑functional efforts to align products with customer needs and market opportunities.

  • Define integrated solutions tied to utility outcomes
  • Drive go-to-market, executive storytelling, and market intelligence

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the market-facing strategy, positioning, messaging architecture, and value proposition for the Grid Edge Intelligence portfolio, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market trends, and corporate growth objectives.
  • Develop a cohesive portfolio narrative that translates products, technologies, and data-driven capabilities into customer-centric solutions addressing utility challenges and strategic priorities.
  • Define and package integrated solutions that connect technology investments to utility business outcomes, including grid reliability, affordability, DER integration, decarbonization, grid modernization, customer engagement, resilience, and operational efficiency.
  • Partner collaboratively with Product Management, Business Units, Corporate Marketing, Industry Strategy, Sales, and Customer Success teams to drive portfolio alignment, launch readiness, and market impact.
  • Lead portfolio-level go-to-market strategies, including market segmentation, target buyer personas, campaign themes, value messaging, analyst relations, customer references, and sales enablement programs.
  • Create and maintain executive narratives, solution presentations, seller playbooks, discovery frameworks, messaging libraries, and business-value-driven content that supports complex solution selling.
  • Serve as an authentic and accountable portfolio evangelist, representing the company with customers, partners, analysts, industry associations, and executive stakeholders.
  • Lead market intelligence and competitive analysis efforts to ensure portfolio positioning remains differentiated, relevant, and aligned with the evolving utility technology landscape.
  • Identify emerging industry trends, regulatory drivers, customer priorities, and technology innovations that influence portfolio strategy and commercial opportunities.
  • Work closely with strategic account teams to support executive customer engagements, business outcome discussions, and enterprise solution strategies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor0s degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, Energy Systems, Communications, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in Product Marketing, Solution Marketing, Product Management, Portfolio Strategy, Industry Strategy, Go-to-Market Leadership, or related disciplines.
  • Demonstrated success developing portfolio-level positioning, solution messaging, executive value propositions, and market narratives across multiple products, platforms, or business units.
  • Strong understanding of electric utility operations and digital transformation initiatives, including Grid Modernization, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Distributed Intelligence, Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Utility Software, Analytics, or Grid Edge technologies.
  • Experience supporting enterprise B2B solution sales organizations and creating customer-focused messaging that drives business-value-led conversations.
  • Proven ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams while balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to executive, technical, and business audiences.
  • Experience conducting market research, competitive intelligence, customer analysis, and industry trend assessments to support strategic decision-making.
  • Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities.
  • Demonstrated accountability for delivering measurable business outcomes and commercial impact.

Preferred

  • Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Marketing, Engineering, Energy Management, or a related discipline.
  • Experience within utility technology, smart grid, DER management, Grid Edge Intelligence, IoT, SaaS, data analytics, AI-driven utility solutions, or related energy technology sectors.
  • Proven experience leading portfolio marketing, solutions strategy, or go-to-market functions within a utilities, energy, industrial technology, or enterprise software organization.
  • Experience engaging with utility executives, industry analysts, regulators, and strategic industry organizations.
  • Familiarity with utility business planning, asset management, customer programs, grid operations, and modernization initiatives.
  • Experience developing frameworks and enablement programs that support consultative and solution-based selling methodologies.
  • Demonstrated success driving innovative market strategies that accelerate customer adoption, revenue growth, and market leadership.

Benefits

  • Benefits Info: This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial, social, health and wellbeing programs, paid vacation, 401k matching, employee stock purchase program, hybrid work schedule, and more!
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Itron, Inc.

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Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure services to communities in more than 100 countries. Our proven portfolio of smart networks, software, services, meters and sensors helps our customers better manage energy and water for the people they serve.

Founded in 1977
Liberty Lake, Washington, USA
5.8K employees (194 in marketing)
80% recommend to a friend
89% CEO approval

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$140K/yr – $218K/yr

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