National Grid · 1 day ago
Lead, Digital Business Strategist
Albany, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$133K/yr - $189K/yr
5+ years expNational Grid is hiring a Lead, Digital Business Strategist for their Digital Solutions team. The role focuses on supporting business and operations work streams within a digital product team, driving digital product planning, and building relationships with stakeholders to define business requirements.
DeliveryEnergyOil and Gas
Responsibilities
Support strategic planning process and define business future state vision based on stakeholder input and industry trends
Define future-state operations solution and lead gap assessments (incl. people, process, tech, data, regulatory)
Drive digital product planning by coordinating business capability assessments, product design, and roadmapping with cross-functional teams
Build relationships with business stakeholders and represent their needs and priorities by defining business requirements to be addressed by digital solutions
Develop business cases, including value projections and detailed investment estimates, and track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints, guiding prioritization, and driving progress throughout product lifecycles
Support change mgmt. and product release plans, with help from the change mgmt. team as needed
Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, process mapping, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, PMO & governance)
Identify and escalate risks to delivering on-time, on-budget, and in line with desired outcomes and lead risk mitigation efforts to optimize value
Prepare materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Board meetings) and regulatory engagements
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
5-8 years relevant business experience, such as product management, digital transformation, and strategic business planning
Experience working with/within electric utilities, DER developers, and/or utility technology providers – electric utility operations experience highly preferred
Experience in Agile product or project management
Excellent analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills
Preferred
Strong interest in the utility industry and energy transition
Experience working across cross-functional teams and managing broad groups of stakeholders
Ability to think strategically and present a compelling vision that represents stakeholder perspectives
Ability to assess and document current state operations, identify customer/user pain points, and help translate business needs into product requirements
Ability to design future-state processes and solutions that address user frictions, including articulating any changes needed to reach the future-state process
Ability to build and refine a product business case, including benefits (financial, non-financial, strategic) and costs
Knowledge of digital product implementation fundamentals and Agile product or project management
Ability to execute change management and product release plans, including communications plan, user adoption strategy, etc
Ability to perform data analytics and communicate meaningful insights from data
Ability to create and present compelling materials to senior stakeholders from different organizations
Company
National Grid
National Grid facilitates electricity and gas transmission system and focuses on delivering clean energy.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2021 (30)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.01BKey Investors
NYSERDASEKStrategic Innovation Fund
2025-08-21Grant· $2M
2025-07-08Post Ipo Debt· $937.85M
2024-09-11Grant· $19.95M
Leadership Team
Zoë Yujnovich
Chief Executive Officer
Anntonette Zembrzuski Alberti
Manager, Product Growth and NY Customer Energy Management Growth
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