Director of Product - Growth Stage Startup - EV/Clean Tech

Description:

Our mission (share it!):

Optiwatt’s mission is to reverse global warming through the advancement of electric vehicle adoption and electrification. We make home energy usage cheaper, greener, and more simple by building towards the world’s largest network of connected and intelligent electric vehicles to balance the electric grid. Our investors are some of the most active impact investing firms out there, and we hold ourselves accountable to each other and the future generations of this planet. Do you want to straddle the intersection of technology and purpose on our growth trajectory to 1,000,000 homes and beyond? We hope so.

Our culture (thrive in it!):

"We're a small team of genuinely ethical people driven by helping others and our planet. And we love our virtual mini-golf tournaments." - Casey

"I love the people here like a family. We work hard and our meme game is strong. It is a flat, collaborative organization, I pitch directly to the CEO and feel heard, even when it's outside my specialty." - Nina

"We love what we do, which makes it feel more like a fun weekend project than work. And after all the features have been deployed, we disc golf." - Danny

"The culture is fun, full of hope and excitement. The office is always full of jokes and discussion about how we can better ourselves and the electric grid." - Ben

Your impact (grow it!):

As head of product at Optiwatt, you will be directly responsible for shaping the technology that tens of thousands of homeowners interface with every day. We will look to you for product leadership in defining our roadmap, by making prioritization decisions based on user and market data to connect thousands of electric vehicles to our energy supply, directly reducing CO2 emissions and preventing grid blackouts. You will grow the company’s consumer and B2B applications from strategic insights you gather, working alongside a small team of driven software developers, UI/UX design staff, and marketing gurus who are hungry to make an impact on our customers and the planet. You will obsess over user stories, identifying pain points and addressing our users’ heartfelt desires through creative feature design. You will conduct competitive analysis on a recurring basis, ensuring that Optiwatt continues to target large and strategic opportunities to reliably capture market share. Above all, you will live and breathe this product, working to build a team of product managers that share a unified vision of excellence for Optiwatt that will drive organic growth, ad conversion, and quality engagement for many years to come. 

Here’s some exciting stuff you'll be working on:

1. Build home energy savings products that connect to EVs, smart thermostats, solar, storage, and many other IoT devices
2. Build products that lower homeowner’s energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint
3. Survey current and potential users on their needs to guide implementation of features, source new ideas, and evaluate product performance
4. Work alongside a talented team of senior engineers who have expertise in consumer, energy, and smart device applications
5. Prioritize our product roadmap to best meet business needs, taking into account resource, finance, time, and market constraints
6. Test creative outside-the-box ideas and iterate constantly to disrupt Optiwatt’s status quo from within and unlock deeper product value in every corner of the application
7. Interface directly with marketing to communicate features to the public as the voice of our user base, ensuring that our offerings are as intuitive as possible to interested parties
8. Hire additional product talent as necessary and structure a team to perform as a cohesive unit
9. Supply the leadership team with reports on product needs, problems, interests, competitive activities, and potential for new products and services
10. Continuously improve through feedback, as an individual, team, and organization

Requirements:

You are someone who is….

1. Excited to work on any of the following; electric vehicles, the electric grid, green technology, cost savings, and consumer focused applications
2. Strategic thinker who can build the business cases for future products and direction
3. Experienced with consumer applications
4. Proficient in wireframing feature concepts using Figma and constructively iterating on design with UI/UX staff
5. Analyze product usage and implement continuous data-driven improvements
6. Naturally gifted in leadership, able to motivate teams to push towards product milestones with pace and accountability
7. Have a strong understanding of software applications
8. Data oriented in decision making, able to construct insights using knowledge of SQL or relational databases to learn and adapt from user behavior
9. Excellent in evaluating tradeoffs between items on the product roadmap to maximize business outcomes given numerous constraints
10. Highly motivated, target driven, with a proven track record in product management and a desire to grow yourself within Optiwatt by pulling in work that excites you
11. Educated, with a minimum of a Bachelor's in business administration, graphic design, communications, psychology, or an engineering field (exceptions made for deep industry experience or a proven track record of scrappy success). Advanced degrees in analytical, behavioral, or creative fields are encouraged but not required.

Benefits:

Grow with us

We just closed our Series A and have investors from the most reputable names in venture capital and impact investing: Google Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, and Active Impact Investments. We have our sights set on the stars, so if you're interested in growth potential, the sky's the limit here at Optiwatt. 

We invest in your growth because we know that even if you aren’t with us forever, empowering you to better tackle climate change helps all of us. The best part of working in the clean technology industry is the enormous collaboration between companies, founders, investors, and yes, even utilities. Everyone is driven by the same goal: reduce global warming and move us towards a truly sustainable future.

We encourage you to step outside of your role and show us what you can do. Ask for opportunity and you will receive it, offer up ideas and you will be heard. We desire to match people with work that excites them the most, and we will support you in your journey to learn and grow to accomplish that goal.

If your resume doesn't quite fit these job requirements, please apply anyway and tell us where you think you could help us! Climate change and grid stability are enormous problems and we would love help from talented people with any background.

Shine with us

The salary range for this job is $105,000 to $220,000, plus equity and commission compensation dependent on experience.

Optiwatt is a small startup that offers competitive salaries and benefits to all employees, rivaling the giants of the tech world. Some of these amazing perks include:

• Ability to work fully remote, hybrid, or in-person in San Francisco (Office on Market and Van Ness)
• Stock options dependent on experience and salary flexibility
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• $1,500 improvement or mental wellness purchase match
• 401k contribution and matching
• Every other Friday off
• Unlimited paid vacation/sick leave, including a mandatory 10 days off per year
• Yearly company retreats to far-away places (we are hitting Lake Tahoe and Ecuador this year!)
• Flexible work hours, and we mean it. We want you to work when you are most productive, no matter if you are a night owl, early bird, or live in a different US time zone.
• Paid career development opportunities (learn a skill!)
• Expensed home office supplies, work travel, team entertainment, etc. as necessary