Product Strategist, Emerging Technology - REMOTE

Description

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Do you have experience helping utilities with programs for grid-interactive efficient buildings? Are you passionate about supporting utilities’ customer energy program portfolio transformation to integrate new and existing technologies for a flexible, responsive grid? Can you help utilities develop pilots or emerging technology demonstration projects? 

We’re looking for a client-facing technical subject-matter expert with experience in providing actionable recommendations to utilities. Someone who can make complex analysis actionable and clear. We expect this person to act as an industry-facing expert on how utilities can solve problems related to grid-interactivity, load flexibility, and emerging technologies. We’d like you to jump in on day one to support junior researchers, solve real-world problems for our utility clients through written reports and live presentations, and lead technology-focused client-facing projects. If you have deep knowledge of the utility industry, passion for emerging end-use technologies, and excellent analytical and communication skills, we’d love to talk with you! 

The product strategist serves as the business domain expert and has responsibility for setting the direction and manages the entire product lifecycle for E Source customer energy solutions research services. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be the face of E Source’s Technology Assessment and Distributed Energy Resources Service offerings by aligning our products and content to meet the needs of our utility clients. This is a unique opportunity to be at the center of a major energy industry transformation to help utilities identify and adopt cutting-edge, end-use technologies into their portfolio. 

E Source provides predictive data science, research and advisory, and solution services to help utilities make decisions that benefit their customers, their bottom line, and our planet. 

What you’ll do 

• Serve as our in-house expert on emerging electric and gas grid-interactive technologies, energy storage, and incorporating new technologies into utility programs  

• Contribute to the team’s planned content and unplanned work by serving as a subject matter expert in writing , presenting content and responding to on-demand research requests.  

• Create clear, concise, data-driven, and action-oriented content for topically focused reports, articles, technical briefs, and webinars. 

• Mentor and train junior researchers on the utility market needs, how utilities are changing, and new and emerging end-use technologies to address these needs  

• Set the annual research agenda and maintain the priorities for agile product delivery in a matrixed environment. 

• Implement measures that improve product health using continuous improvement principles and key performance indicators (KPIs) to support product quality, user satisfaction, and alignment with business goals. 

• Understand macro and micro industry trends and their impact on the product(s) you oversee. 

• Represent client needs in the creation of deliverables. Create and leverage user stories to clearly define user needs and expectations. 

• Lead or contribute to custom advisory projects for clients. At times, this might be up to 25% of your time. 

• Host online webinars and conduct client advisory calls that include presentations on various technology topics.. 

• Visit clients at their offices and attend industry conferences as a speaker and product representative. 

What will make you a good fit

• Demonstrated expertise with debunking the hype of emerging technologies and presenting technical analysis in a clear manner for your audience.  

• Deep expertise with the engineering principles behind demand response and energy efficiency end-use technologies; you’ll need to assess new and emerging technologies and should enjoy keeping up with the latest trends in areas such as grid-interactive efficient buildings, demand response, lighting, HVAC, plug loads, motors, industrial equipment, and smart home  

• Strategic, entrepreneurial mindset about how to make E Source offerings match clients’ needs. 

• Knowledge about how utilities plan, design, implement, and evaluate DSM, DER, energy storage, and electrification programs and an understanding of the key challenges they face in doing so.. 

• Prior experience making recommendations to utilities about how certain measures can advance their customer energy solutions portfolios. 

• Exceptional writing, verbal, and analytical skills; E Source differentiates itself through our readable, clear, concise, and actionable reports and presentations. 

• Experience with electric, gas, or water utility demand-side management and distributed energy resources programs. 

• Humility and a collaborative attitude—you know there are things you don't know, and that energizes you; you work well in a team environment; you proactively seek support, advice, and guidance from others; and you’re happy to support your colleagues. 

• Rigor and discipline—you manage your time well and your coworkers can count on you to do what you say you’ll do. 

• Creativity and openness—you aren't afraid to share your ideas for how we might do things differently. 

• Engineering, physics, or another technical degree, or related certifications. 

A little about E Source 

Utilities across the US and Canada face the same fundamental, day-to-day challenges: to ensure reliable service for every customer while maintaining and modernizing aging distribution networks and meeting regulatory requirements—all while keeping rates affordable. At the same time, climate change has created a common, universal call to action: to reduce our carbon impact, improve our environment, and ensure the prosperity of future generations. 

At E Source, we’re dedicated to helping every utility become a Sustainable Utility. That means doing the hard work it takes to achieve goals that often seem at odds with one another: 

• Environmental responsibility: Decarbonizing operations, reducing emissions, eliminating water leaks, and finding efficiencies 

• Reliability: Providing safe, continuous, and consistent service in the face of increasing volatility caused by climate change, including extreme weather, drought, and fire 

• Equity: Making services and programs truly available to all, especially low- and moderate-income residential customers and small and midsize businesses who are often disproportionately impacted by societal events 

• Financial stability: Ensuring a bottom line that affords capital and operational expenditures while enabling innovation and giving back to our communities 

E Source blends industry-leading research, predictive data science, and solution services to help utilities make better decisions to serve their customers, their bottom line, and our planet. With a commitment to practical innovation, we use more than three decades of utility-focused experience and our unique solution set to help our clients become a Sustainable Utility. 

Benefits 

• We offer excellent insurance packages, including medical, dental, and vision plans; company-paid life insurance; company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; and medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans. 

• We provide a flexible time off (FTO) program; E Source employees can take as many paid days off per year as they need, with manager approval, while fulfilling their work obligations and ensuring proper coverage of their responsibilities. 

• We offer flexible schedules, flexible work locations, and a paid parental leave benefit. 

• We provide a 401(k)/RRSP plan with a 3% employer match. 

The budgeted salary for this position is ​​$90,000 to $130,000 ​USD + annual bonus up to 8%. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience. 

This person can work 100% remote, but preference will be given for a hybrid schedule from of our physical office located in Boulder, Colorado; 

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. 

Employees of E Source are encouraged to apply. To foster a positive work environment and company culture, we support our employees in their career growth at E Source. Employees who are interested in similar job opportunities in the future should visit the E Source careers page for a listing of all open positions and contact Human Resources to express interest.  

We contact applicants directly via email using only our designated company email addresses with the domain of @esource.com. Please do not provide personal information to anyone over email and be wary of other accounts impersonating businesses. 

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