US Product Manager
Company: Electron
Job type: Full-time
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.
We recently completed a £5m fundraise (from US & UK funds) and we are seeking a highly experienced Senior Product Manager based in the US to lead and accelerate our go-to-market strategy in this territory
The role
Our ideal candidate will have a grid-technology and/or energy sector background and will be able to supports Electron’s product and go-to-market strategies in the US market by providing insights and knowledge about this geography.
Responsibilities
- In this role, you will become an essential part of Electron’s Product Team with specific focus on the US market.
- Provide valuable input into Electron’s Product strategy for the US market by clearly defining problem statements and product positioning.
- Provide transparency across the organisation on product strategy.
- Organise and lead product discovery engagements and workshops across
stakeholder groups. - Interact daily with other senior managers, sales, engineering, and project
teams. - Working with Agile engineering teams and turning complex requirements into transparent user stories.
- Backlog management and prioritisation.
- Attend conferences and presentations, industry events and client engagements.
- Identify and foster high-value relationships within organisations across stakeholder groups, including DRPs, DER aggregators, municipal utilities, and CCAs.
- Build and maintain both external and internal product documentation specific to the US market, including User Personas, competitive analyses, product sheets, and case studies.
- Be the first point of call for technical sales and software demonstration to support Electron’s sales and marketing teams in the US geography.
- Take a central role in the recruitment and onboarding of market participants in new deployments of ElectronConnect in the US geography.
- Alongside the wider Electron team, provide hyper-care during new deployments of ElectronConnect in the US geography.
- Keep up to date with relevant federal and state legislation and policy (e.g., FERC 2222).
- Monitoring and analysis of the competitive landscape.
- Understanding and keeping up to date with best practice UX.
- Become a subject-matter-expert in demand response and the use of flexibility for grid services.
- Provide insights to assist the definition of pricing for ElectronConnect in the US market.
- Comply with Electron’s information security management system and applicable legislation and regulations.
Requirements
- We are looking for a technical B2B Senior Product Manager with 3 or more years’ experience in grid-tech, demand response or the energy sector in general.
- Strong presentation and organisational skills are a must.
- Based in the US we are looking for someone who has previously worked in one of the following areas:
- US energy markets in one of the seven ISO/RTO regions.
- Commercial, industrial, and residential demand response, either within a provider organisation or as part of running and managing demand response programs.
- The use of behind-the-meter demand flexibility to provide grid services.
- Ideally having previously worked within one or multiple of the following types of organisations:
- Municipal utility or other publicly owned utility.
- Community Choice Aggregation (CCA).
- Demand Response Provider (DRP), including DER aggregators and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) companies.
- Flexibility market software provider.
- Specifically, knowledge in the one or multiple of the following areas would be highly advantageous for the role:
- Wholesale electricity market design.
- Flexibility and decentralised energy market design, or market-based demand response.
- Existing Demand Response programs, for example the CPUC ELRP, or PG&E’s BIP
- DERMS and ADMS design and operations.
- Baselining, measurement, and verification (including AMI).
- Knowledge of the Green Button energy data initiatives
- Some familiarity of the electrical engineering aspects of distributed energy resources and/or distribution operations (e.g., an understanding of DERs from an energy-voltage-VAR perspective).
- Familiarity of communications protocols to various DERs (e.g., IEEE
2030.5) would be a bonus.
Personal Attributes
- Customer obsessed- loves to help customers get what they need
- Effective and open communication skills
- Team player mindset with a passion for solving complex challenges
- Commitment to continuous learning and skill improvement
- Desire to help others achieve their goals
- Self-starter attitude
Our Culture & Values
We offer a flexible remote working environment with the opportunity for travel. We welcome all candidates that want to have a positive impact on climate change, and who have an enthusiasm to learn and grow, and are comfortable with remote team collaboration.
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.
