XPRIZE Overview
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Position Description
XPRIZE is seeking a highly skilled Product Manager (PM) to lead the development of a roadmap of critical interventions needed in fighting climate change, and the related energy transition, between today and the year 2050. This PM role will be a mixture of working with technical content supplied by subject matter experts in the climate and energy fields, knowledge translation and communication of each recommended intervention, and creative design of a digital “roadmap” communication and engagement tool. A first rough draft of a digital roadmap by November 2022 is the key deliverable for this role. The construction of this kind of roadmap is a new emerging product for XPRIZE. Future roadmaps planned in Climate and Energy (2023), as well as in XPRIZE’s other focus areas, will learn from this initial work preparing a draft roadmap for Climate and Energy.We anticipate that many of the critical interventions needed between today and the year 2050 will not in fact be XPRIZE competitions, or incentive prizes more generally, but instead may involve collaborations, research, business, government, citizen, or investor action. XPRIZE is seeking individuals for this role who are passionate about using innovation to drive positive social change in climate change and energy.
The Product Manager will have three key responsibilities. First, the PM will participate in a series of conversations with subject matter experts, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors in the climate and energy spaces that XPRIZE is organizing from May 2022 through September 2022 (“Global Visioneering”). The focus of these conversations will be to identify key gaps, needs, and opportunities for XPRIZE competitions and other non-prize interventions in climate and energy. As an observer in this process, you will have the opportunity to take notes and synthesize knowledge shared from those sessions to use as inputs into the draft roadmap.
Second, the PM will be responsible for researching other similar roadmaps, future predictions, action plans, research agendas, and other related documents published by business, academic, government, investor, or other organizations that may be helpful reference materials for XRPIZE’s roadmap work.
Third, the PM will develop concepts for creative and effective design of a digital roadmap product, working with designers from our Marketing and Communications team. The visual design, user interface, and curation of content in the roadmap are all flexible. As PM on this project you will have freedom to propose compelling, interesting, and engaging ways of producing a digital roadmap.
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The XPRIZE FOUNDATION is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate in employment. Equal access to employment, services, and programs is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the organization.