Application Guide
How to Apply for Product Manager II
at Uplight
🏢 About Uplight
Uplight is unique as a clean energy technology company that partners with leading utilities worldwide to accelerate carbon reduction through personalized customer experiences. They stand out by focusing specifically on the utility sector's transformation, combining behavioral science with technology to drive meaningful environmental impact at scale.
About This Role
This Product Manager II role involves developing product strategy for business customer-facing products at Uplight, specifically optimizing support and experience for utility business customers. You'll lead iterative product development with engineering and design teams, using data-driven insights to validate hypotheses and enhance user experience in the clean energy space.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day might involve analyzing data on business customer behaviors across utility programs, collaborating with engineering and design teams to prioritize feature development based on validated hypotheses, and presenting product strategy updates to stakeholders about optimizing the business customer experience. You'd likely spend time understanding pain points from utility partners while balancing immediate support improvements with longer-term product vision.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Uplight Is Looking For
- Has 5+ years experience identifying and solving high-value pain points for business customers, preferably in B2B SaaS or utility/energy sectors
- Demonstrates exceptional storytelling skills with examples of translating complex technical concepts for both technical teams and business stakeholders
- Has led cross-functional initiatives where they embedded discovery processes throughout product development cycles
- Shows a user-first mindset with specific examples of balancing ambitious goals with simple, elegant solutions for business users
📝 Tips for Applying to Uplight
Highlight specific experience with business customer-facing products in regulated industries like utilities, energy, or financial services
Include metrics showing how you've optimized support experiences or reduced pain points for business users
Demonstrate your understanding of Uplight's mission by connecting your experience to clean energy or sustainability outcomes
Show examples of how you've used data to understand customer behaviors across multiple programs or product lines
Prepare a portfolio showing your process from hypothesis to MVP validation, specifically for business customer products
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your experience developing product strategy for business customers in complex industries', 'Specific examples of leading horizontal, multi-team efforts around shared business goals', "How your approach to product discovery aligns with Uplight's focus on data-driven customer understanding", 'Your passion for clean energy and how it connects to your product management philosophy']
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Uplight's specific utility partners and the types of programs they offer to business customers
- → The competitive landscape for utility business customer solutions in the clean energy space
- → Recent news about Uplight's product launches or partnerships with utilities
- → Industry challenges utilities face in serving business customers and meeting clean energy goals
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on consumer product experience without demonstrating B2B or business customer expertise
- Generic product management approaches without specific examples of working in regulated or utility industries
- Failing to connect your experience to Uplight's mission of accelerating clean energy through customer experiences
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
Congratulations!