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Want to be part of a team that is changing the world for the better and leading an exciting industry? Want to work with the very best talent in the industry, learn, and be challenged every day? Want to do well by doing good? Want to join a progressive culture focused on delivering uncommon value to customers? Interested in unlimited paid time off? Want to bring your dog to work?
Want to live in Jackson Hole and code in your bathrobe? We’re a virtual company, operating entirely in the cloud, allowing everyone to live and work where they love to live and work.
These are some of the many ways that we live our values and perhaps a set of reasons why joining Voltus might make sense for you. On top of that, we don’t require you to sign some silly non-compete… those things are for beginners! Join us and you’ll want to stay because it’s awesome.
Check-in regularly to see our openings (full-time and part-time roles, internships). We’re hiring quickly so you can expect lots of changes!
MARKETING AND SALES
Sales Director
US – Boston, New York, Mid-Atlantic, Chicago, St. Louis, Texas, California
International – Ontario, Alberta, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Middle East
The Role
The Sales Director is a sales hunting machine, with a focus on building and nurturing successful new relationships with large commercial, institutional, and industrial customers. Our product is proven and tested and we are moving from startup stage to significant (and rapid) growth stage. We’re looking for an evangelical, process-oriented salesperson who believes in our mission. If you love to sell, if your track record of success gives you confidence in your ability to close profitable deals with large commercial and industrial customers, and if you want your work to make a difference in the energy industry, we’d love you to join our world-class team.
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Key Responsibilities
- Deliver against a quota
- Prospect, present proposals, negotiate, and close business
- Report on all sales activities through Voltus’s CRM systems
- Continually make us a better company
Please e-mail your interest to Hillary at htrocheck@voltus.co.
Sales Operations and Marketing Associate
The Role
The Marketing and Sales Operations Associate eliminates friction and inefficiency for the Voltus marketing and sales team! This person is passionate about putting great leads into the hands of salespeople, developing performance reports that help us become more productive, managing customer-facing content (e.g., sales decks, financial tools, customer agreements), developing and managing productivity tools (e.g., Salesforce processes and data hygiene, webinar platform and communication tools), and supporting marketing efforts that grab market attention (e.g., outbound and inbound campaigns, webinars, conferences). If you love to create a well-oiled machine, collaborate with world-class market-facing teammates, and see the results of work through the ever-increasing productivity of those you support, then this is the role for you!
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Key Responsibilities
Please e-mail your interest to jenna@voltus.co.
Sales Associate
US – Boston, New York, Mid-Atlantic, Chicago, St. Louis, Texas, California
International – Ontario, Alberta, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Middle East
The Role
The Sales Associate is the rocket fuel that makes the sales director even more productive by cold calling on prospective customers, evangelizing Voltus’s simple value proposition, and setting meetings that the sales director closes on. If you love to sell, or if you’ve always thought it would be a great career track, there is no better place to learn how to be a world-class salesperson than in the Voltus sales associate development program. Bring your passion for connecting with people and your love for energy solutions together at Voltus.
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Key Responsibilities
- Cold call prospective customers
- Evangelize the Voltus value proposition
- Set meetings for sales directors
- Be ready to step us as the company grows and outside sales roles open up
Please e-mail your interest to jcelerier@voltus.co.
ENGINEERING
Full Stack Engineer
The Role
Voltus is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to build applications and services that leverage our growing stash of energy data. You’re very comfortable writing a React app and implementing the API that serves it. You’re also happy writing the backend service that feeds the API. You can implement beautiful customer-facing product and ugly-functional internal tools and have the judgment to know which to build when. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop the application and API layers for customer-facing and internal tools to process and understand our ever-growing pile of electricity demand data and market intelligence
- Help build the outermost layer of the Voltus network, interfacing to a wide variety of electric industry partners
- Build reusable frontend components and thoughtful APIs
- Implement and follow engineering best practices, including unit tests and continuous integration
- Work independently and thoughtfully allocate time among projects
Technologies you’re an expert in:
React, Javascript, ES2015+, SCSS/LESS, Webpack, Flask/Django
Some technologies we use:
- Python, Javascript, Go, Rust
- Postgres, Redis, S3, Kafka, InfluxDB
- AWS, Docker, Nomad, Terraform
- React, Flask, Scrapy
Please e-mail your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co.
Backend Engineer
The Role
Voltus is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help us transform a diverse network of distributed energy resources into reliable powerplants. The thought of building out integrations with different components of the North American electric grid is exciting. You know how to write a beautiful API—and you know how to shim an ugly one. Anyone can integrate to a webhook, but it takes a pro to ingest data over SCADA. Like all of your Voltus teammates, you are bright, gritty, and good.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop the application and API layers for customer-facing and internal tools to process our ever-growing pile of electricity demand data and market intelligence
- Build creative shims to legacy systems—everyone loves a clean API, but not everyone can scrape an ActiveX application from 1997
- Process, clean, validate, and present data from sensor to customer dashboard in real-time (no sweat!)
- How can we make a few dozen generators, spread over a few hundred square miles and connected by cell modem, behave like a single powerplant with a ten-minute start time? Help solve this and other crazy highly reliable infrastructure problems.
Technologies we use:
- Python, Javascript, Go, Lua
- Postgres, Redis, S3, Kafka, InfluxDB
- AWS, Docker
- React, Flask, Scrapy
- Pandas, NumPy
Please e-mail your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co
Data Scientist
The Role
At Voltus we move at an electric pace and data is at the heart of our product. As a data scientist, you will acquire energy industry domain knowledge about demand response programs and energy market operations. You will leverage your deep understanding of optimization, simulation, modeling, and statistics to solve problems including time series forecasting, anomaly detection, and event prediction. Your models will have a direct impact on customer satisfaction and Voltus’ bottom line. We are looking for a self-motivated, intelligent, and driven team-player.
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Key Responsibilities
- Solid understanding of time series analysis, linear algebra, algorithms, machine learning, optimization, numerical methods
- Excellent Python code
- Experience with data science tools including numpy, pandas, scipy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, jupyter notebooks
- Experience with at least one mainstream deep learning frameworks, including TensorFlow, PyTorch
- Effective communication of model results and limitations to technical and non-technical audiences through written, spoken, and visual mediums
Tech Stack:
- Python, Go
- AWS, Docker
- Kafka, InfluxDb, Postgres, Redis, S3
If you are bright, gritty and good, please e-mail your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co with the job title in the subject line.
ENERGY MARKETS
Energy Markets Manager
The Role
Voltus is hiring a whip-smart, entrepreneurial, proud energy nerd with an unparalleled understanding of energy markets and demand side management. This multi-faceted role is responsible for helping our customers profit from their involvement in energy markets. If you are bright, gritty, good, and intellectually curious, and if your brain marries creativity and engineering diligence, you’re a great fit.
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Key Responsibilities
- Understand the role of demand-side resources in energy markets
- Manage demand response market activities, including auction strategy, asset nomination, and asset optimization
- Develop analytical tools (Python or R-based experience preferred) to support the operational needs of our market activities as well as the customer-facing needs of our Sales and Marketing efforts
- Understand, define, and disseminate functional requirements from the market
- Evaluate and execute on new market entry
- Play a lead role in helping us continue to develop products
Please email your interest to dana@voltus.co.
OPERATIONS
Dispatch Operations Lead (Part-Time, Weekend)
The Role
The Dispatch Operations Lead’s primary responsibility will be to successfully prepare for and execute all activities associated with managing demand response dispatches during weekends. Demand response dispatches are business and time-critical. The Dispatch Operations Lead will become an expert in executing dispatches across multiple grid operators and utility programs. The core objectives of the role are as follows:
Primary responsibilities – Maintain a state of readiness to receive dispatches from grid operators and utilities, which includes:
- We are looking for two Dispatch Operations Leads to ensure 24-hour readiness from Midnight (ET) Friday to Midnight Sunday (ET). During each shift, the lead must be available and ready to respond to any incoming alerts and dispatches immediately. The 48 hours will be split between the two dispatch operations leads.
- Maximize customer participation in DR through a dispatch management process that makes customer participation simple and successful.
- Lead seamless internal communication during dispatches, leveraging other internal team members in support of the shared goal for flawless dispatches.
- Capture lessons learned following a dispatch. Track and follow through on any customer inquiries or issues.
Secondary responsibilities – When there are no dispatches, prepare customers to be successful in future dispatches, which includes:
- Manage the collection of settlement data for customers
- Ensure our customer contact information is up to date
- Ad hoc analysis projects
- Monitor usage and take necessary actions to ensure Voltus daily compliance
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Qualities
- Bright, Gritty, and Good
- Operations-minded; you adhere to “zero defect work”
- You sweat the small stuff
- You show up ahead of time, every time
- You don’t wait for someone to tell you what to do
- You are ambitious, resourceful, fun (!), dedicated, mission-driven and you appreciate opportunities to deliver value and accept additional responsibility
Our mission is to be the world’s leading demand response company. If you’d like to play a leading role in helping us achieve this mission, please email your resume to jhowery@voltus.co.