Product Manager

Company: Electron

Job type: Full-time (hybrid remote and office-based working), ideally working from the London office 2 days/week.

Overview

Achieving net-zero requires effective flexibility markets (in which consumers are paid to use more or less power at the right time and location), working at scale. Effective flexibility markets mean: lower energy prices for consumers, faster connection of new clean energy generating assets, more efficient use of these assets, and faster adoption of other clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles, electric heating and battery storage.

Yet to date flexibility markets have failed to launch and scale. Because of this:

Customers are paying higher energy bills in support of old fossil fuel burning power stations; 
more and more clean energy is wasted each year (an astonishing £2 billion in 2022 vs £500 million in 2019); 
new clean energy assets are stuck in ten-year grid connection queues because of ageing infrastructure designed for the world of fossil fuels; and
essential clean energy technologies like battery storage are not scaling as fast as they need to be.

Without effective flexibility markets it will not be possible to deliver a future of affordable, available, clean energy for all.

At a time when we are simultaneously experiencing a climate crisis, a cost-of-living crisis and an energy crisis, delays to introducing and scaling market solutions are unacceptable.

Electron has a technology centric scalable solution. Electron offers customers the ability to create, launch and operate flexibility markets quickly and efficiently using ElectronConnect, a fully configurable flexibility market platform.

Electron’s Vision is to Unleash renewable abundance by connecting millions of distributed resources to thousands of coordinated markets.

We’ll do this by helping network utilities (the companies that own and operate the local grids) and municipal suppliers adopt and scale flexibility markets to manage grid congestion, improve connection rates and lower bills.

The role

We recently announced the completion of a £5m fundraise to commercialise our product and expand our reach. We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Product Manager to join our start-up team help us grow and evolve our flexibility and decentralised energy market platform, ElectronConnect.

We are looking for someone with 2 to 3 years’ B2B experience with technical software platforms, this could include defining Product strategy as a Product Manager, building software as a Product Owner or Engineer, or involved with the delivery of software as a Project Manager.

We provide solutions for the flexibility and decentralised energy space but are looking for the right person regardless of the sector or sectors you have previously worked in. If you do have experience in a role within energy markets, grid-tech / clean-tech, financial trading, or a similar space, we would love to hear about it.

Naturally the role includes a significant amount of client facing activities including discovery workshops, conference presentations, industry events and client engagements. Therefore, strong presentation and organisational skills are a bonus.

What will you be doing

As part of the Product Team, you will work closely with others in the Product Team to:

Identify and foster high-value relationships within organisations across various stakeholder groups.
Deliver projects and deployments of ElectronConnect.
Clearly define problem statements and Product positioning.
Provide transparency across the organisation on Product Strategy, including daily interactions with Senior Management, Sales, Engineering, and Project teams.
Monitor and analysis of the competitive landscape.
Expand and maintain both external and internal Product documentation, including Roadmap, User Personas, competitive analyses, product sheets, and case studies.
Keep up to date with relevant legislation, regulation and policy in multiple geographies including the UK, EU and US.
Comply with Electron’s information security management system and applicable legislation and regulations.

As part of the Product Team, you will work closely with the Engineering team to:

Help turn complex requirements into transparent user stories.
Manage the backlog and ordering.
Understand and keep up-to-date with best practice UX.
We also work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to provide technical sales demos and material, refine messaging and content, and to attend conferences and events as appropriate.

Requirements

2 to 3 years B2B experience with technical software.
A proven ability to understand a range of concepts, and synthesize them into coherent narratives and solutions, and to express and communicate those solutions to a wide range of audiences.
A passion for Product Management, and the drive and desire to grow as a Product Manager in the grid-tech / clean-tech space.
The mindset to engage with multiple stakeholder groups and get to the heart of user challenges and problems.
You’ll need to be comfortable with working across multiple tasks & managing competing priorities.
An approach where you can adapt to change and keep up with a fast-moving business in a fast moving sector.
A deep interest in sustainability, green energy and achieving net zero.

Personal Attributes

Effective and open communication skills
Team player mindset with a passion for finding simple solutions to complex challenges
Commitment to continuous learning and skill improvement
Self-starter attitude

Our Culture & Values

Cultural fit is important to us. Here’s what it’s like to work at Electron:

We care fiercely: for each other; for the climate; for good solutions and great outcomes.
We have grit: transitions of such scale can be slow and hard. We bring courage, perseverance, and good humour.
We blaze trails: we have a vision for a better energy future and are unafraid to both lead and challenge.

We empathise to empower: each other, our customers, and our community. Celebrate diversity, seek to understand and improve together.

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