Product

The Role

Voltus is looking for an Associate Product Manager to help us deliver new products that allow our customers to be smarter energy consumers and earn cash with their Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). In this role you will be responsible for working closely with Product Managers to establish roadmaps, with Design and Engineering to execute on ongoing initiatives, as well as leveraging data to uncover opportunities to deliver exceptional value to our customers at scale.

You are an enthusiastic right-brain communicator, with extremely strong left-brain technical capability. You love sketching out detailed user stories, user personas, and technical specs. You gobble up user research and product analytics, pushing us to become even more data-driven than we already are. You are eager to work with some of the smartest software engineers out there, and to learn from and collaborate with them and other Bright, Gritty, and Good colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn the role of demand response and distributed energy resources in energy markets
• Provide data-driven prioritization of stakeholder needs, explained in simple and transparent terms
• Work closely with Product Managers to maintain a product backlog
• Own the entirety of issue and idea management for your areas of product focus
• Contribute to the entire product development process, from user research to detailed documentation to making sure the product gets out the door on time
• Work closely with Engineering to write technical scopes and documentation
• Manage the day-to-day efforts of ongoing initiatives, from managing standups, to triaging bugs, to providing project updates to the organization

Qualifications

• Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple work streams simultaneously
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and software technologies
• Experience gathering user feedback and advocating on their behalf
• Ability to distill data into actionable insights
• Equally strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bonus: experience working in an agile environment
• Bonus: experience working in the energy technology industry

The Role

Voltus is looking for a Product Manager to help us “simplify the complex” by building product that lets users self-serve on tasks that are normally complicated. In this role, you will be responsible for driving innovation, collaborating with a wide variety of stakeholders to understand and document key business requirements, establishing roadmaps, and prioritizing software development.

You are an enthusiastic right-brain communicator, with extremely strong left-brain technical capability. You love sketching out detailed user stories, user personas, and technical specs. You gobble up user research and product analytics, pushing us to become even more data-driven than we already are. You are eager to work with some of the smartest software engineers out there, and to learn from and collaborate with them and other bright, gritty, and good colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the role of demand response and distributed energy resources in energy markets, including following trends in the industry to assess their value or threat
• Contribute to the entire product development process, from scoping to detailed documentation to wireframe design to making sure the product gets out the door on time
• Work cross-functionally to build consensus on product scope. Define and refine business requirements with key internal and external stakeholders
• Write technical scope of work and documentation, working collaboratively with engineering
• Own the creative process of gathering, generating, and curating new ideas and user feedback, ultimately turning them into product priorities
• Articulate and quantify the business value of any new product or feature
• Provide data-driven prioritization of stakeholder needs, explained in simple and transparent terms
• Help develop and grow our burgeoning product development and management processes

Qualifications

• Demonstrated history of developing and launching B2B SaaS products
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and software technologies
• Ability to step into various user personas and be their advocate
• Self-initiated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-throughput environment, and manage several products simultaneously
• Equally strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working in agile, team environment
• Bonus: experience working in the energy technology industry

About The Role

We’re seeking an individual motivated by our mission with a deep understanding of the energy space. A self-starter and analytical individual to join our Product Partnerships team to help develop, support, and grow our partner ecosystem. If you enjoy engaging with various partners and thinking about new growth opportunities through new partnerships and integrations, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities will range from research, analysis, and proposals to bringing new partners onto Voltus’s DER platform and managing partner relationships and success. You’ll work with the most innovative companies in energy tech, including market leaders in home-energy management, EV charging, energy storage, smart buildings, and transport.

About Us

Voltus represents the “potential of us” to better manage energy through intelligent systems that provide simple, cost and risk-free energy demand management. Our mission is to fulfill the promise of the energy transition. By partnering with industry leaders and the distributed energy resource (DER) ecosystem, we want to build the decarbonized, distributed, decentralized, and digitized energy system of the future.

The Voltus DER Platform connects any distributed energy resource to any energy market across the US and Canada, providing flexibility, reliability, and resilience to the grid while generating revenue for our partners.

Voltus is a remote and virtual company, distributed across the US, Canada, and abroad with many team members in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and other cities. This role can be based anywhere in the US/Canada.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct data-driven analysis to support partner business models and product development strategies
• Perform market intelligence and competitive landscape analysis Initiate and manage leads and early stage partner discussions to qualify opportunities and build relationships
• Engage with potential partners and customers to build relationships and identify collaboration and product partnership opportunities
• Build business deal valuation models for analysis, definition, prioritization, and pipeline management
• Run new initiative sizing, scope definition, effort forecasting, roadmap development, and project/
  program management
• Collaborate with Energy Markets and Product teams to identify and define user/customer needs, business and product requirements, and feature definition
• Manage internal cross-functional relationships with Operations and Customer Success teams to help partners integrate with our platform and assure end-customers for market participation
• Manage existing partner accounts and relationships to assure successful completion and delivery
• P&L and business growth management
• Collaborate with Marketing team in creating and managing outreach, engagement programs, as well as defining co-marketing opportunities

About You

• Strong analytical skills including a deep understanding of data analytics
• Experience with business model development and P&L management
• Product development and management experience
• Program/project management and cross-functional collaboration/leadership
• Experience navigating partnerships through complex negotiations and contract structuring
• Enjoy engaging with partners and customers, including presenting and visualizing data and explaining analyses
• Think strategically and see the bigger picture but can easily dive into the details and love to problem solve

Bonus Experience

• Understanding of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies
• Knowledge of the electric grid systems, markets, and technologies
• Experience in EVs and infrastructure, energy storage, demand response and energy efficiency

About The Role

We’re seeking an individual motivated by our mission with a deep understanding of the energy space to join our Product Partnerships team in leading the development of strategic partnerships in electric vehicles, transport, and charging infrastructure. If you are passionate about clean energy transition and love to think deeply about the disruptive companies, technologies and services leading the transition, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities will range from engaging with industry and potential partners, defining new growth opportunities, research, analysis, and business case development, to writing business requirements and proposals while managing partner relationships and success.

About Us

Voltus represents the “potential of us” to better manage energy through intelligent systems that provide simple, cost and risk-free energy demand management. Our mission is to fulfill the promise of the energy transition. By partnering with industry leaders and the distributed energy resource (DER) ecosystem, we want to build the decarbonized, distributed, decentralized, and digitized energy system of the future.

The Voltus DER Platform connects any distributed energy resource to any energy market across the US and Canada, providing flexibility, reliability, and resilience to the grid while generating revenue for our partners.

Voltus is a remote and virtual company, distributed across the US, Canada, and abroad with many team members in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and other cities. This role can be based anywhere in the US/Canada.

Key Responsibilities

• Creative commercial arrangements and agreements that enable revenue streams for partners, customers, and end users while building a cleaner and more reliable electric grid
• Engage with partners to collect customer/user insights to provide feedback for product design and development teams
• Conduct data-driven analysis to support partner business models and product development strategies
• Perform market intelligence and competitive landscape analysis Initiate and manage leads and early stage partner discussions to qualify opportunities and build relationships
• Engage with potential partners and customers to build relationships and identify collaboration and product partnership opportunities
• Build business deal valuation models for analysis, definition, prioritization, and pipeline management
• Run new initiative sizing, scope definition, effort forecasting, and program management
• Collaborate with Energy Markets and Product teams to identify and define user/customer needs, business and product requirements, and feature definition
• Work with Operations and Customer Success teams to help partners integrate with our platform and assure end-customers for market participation
• Collaborate with Marketing team in creating and managing outreach, engagement programs, as well as defining co-marketing opportunities

About You

• Strong analytical skills including a deep understanding of data analytics
• Experience with business model development and P&L management
• 5+ years of experience in corporate or business development
• A self-starter individual that enjoys working with external and internal organization to develop new
  solutions and partnerships.
• Strong analytical skills including a deep understanding of data analytics
• Experience with business model development and P&L management
• Product development and management experience
• Program/project management and cross-functional collaboration/leadership
• Experience navigating partnerships through complex negotiations and contract structuring
• Enjoy engaging with partners and customers, including presenting and visualizing data and explaining analyses
• Think strategically and see the bigger picture but can easily dive into the details and love to problem solve
• Understanding of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies
• Knowledge of the electric grid systems, markets, and technologies
• Experience in EVs and infrastructure, energy storage, demand response and energy efficiency