Staff Product Manager, Simulation Ecosystem

Staff Product Manager
Energy Systems Simulation Ecosystem

About our Company

Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded clean energy startup in stealth mode backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. We’re a product development-centric company that is building our end-to-end energy operating company around bleeding-edge digital capabilities. We’re composed of deeply technical industry experts with decades of experience in both the technology and energy fields, and we pride ourselves on our cross-functional development ethos and intensely collaborative culture. Our mission is to accelerate our collective path to climate, electric ecosystem and societal equilibriums, and our plans are novel and ambitious.

We are building a company where data-driven insights fuel our decision-making, and autonomous workflows infused with ML and AI will be the engine of our differentiation. New colleagues will share our vision that a leading energy company can be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to data, ML, AI, automated workflows and autonomous decision making. Our capabilities are enabled by our aggressively modern software stack and engineering practices, which provide the scalability we need to put a serious dent in carbon emissions.

Our team is proud of our deeply collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, empathy and care for each other, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment. We’re looking for equally collaborative, talented and gritty folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.

About the Job

At Equilibrium, we are building a company where collaborative and cross-functional innovation across deeply integrated and cohesive product and engineering teams drives superior product vision, design and execution. Our product managers foster our product development activities while helping to design and deliver innovative capabilities that underpin the company’s ambitious and novel business model. 

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to guide product development for our Energy Systems Simulation Ecosystem. Our simulation ecosystem is one of our most strategically important and ambitious foundational capabilities. It is a multi-purpose ecosystem that will enable our company to identify, model and capture intrinsic value across the energy value chain, thus powering the rest of our business model and internal capabilities. The individual who succeeds in this role will drive exponential growth for the company.

In the near-term, you will work with software engineers, data engineers, infrastructure engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, and other product managers to design and build our simulation ecosystem. In the medium-term, you will continuously improve and optimize the simulation ecosystem while honing your expertise of our product discovery and delivery processes to nurture a culture of innovation and delivery. Lastly, you will master the ability to convey a robust vision of the future that others will excitedly help you achieve, while having ample opportunity to extend your product expertise into additional product areas of the company as we grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Management for our Simulation Ecosystem product suite 
  • Design our strategy and design for the simulation product suite, including our:
    • Market Simulator product, creating a dynamic representation of electricity markets that enable us to train cutting edge commercial models and techniques;
    • Asset Simulator product, creating capabilities to locate, size, and simulate operations for renewable and clean, flexible energy assets; and
    • Financial Simulator product, creating a toolsuite that defines the economics and financials associated with building, buying and operating clean energy assets
  • Work directly with the Simulation Ecosystem engineering team to devise innovative software and data science solutions to the complex challenges within this product suite
  • Work hand-in-hand with internal customers and commercial champions to develop software products that enable their commercial successes by leveraging our products
  • Work closely with other product managers to strategically align our capabilities across product suites
• Develop, evangelize and drive the simulation ecosystem Product Strategy and roadmap 
  • Drive product strategy and create collateral needed to codify and evangelize it (e.g. product positioning, alignment with business capability, business case, etc.)
  • Proactively cultivate stakeholder relationships and seek their input into product strategy
  • Build and refine product roadmap, disseminating collateral that justifies strategic rationale and prioritization to foster stakeholder trust
  • Continuously build domain expertise and incorporate insights into our product suites to embed innovation and competitive differentiation
  • Seek strategic alignment and cross-business consistency between product-suite strategy and the overarching corporate strategy to guarantee collective and aligned growth
  • Approach every opportunity with entrepreneurial tenacity, looking for ways to get your product into production, in use, and earning revenue
• Conduct Product Discovery for the simulation product suite to enable product development
  • Understand stakeholder needs and characterize them in crystal-clear requirements for applications, formulating both technical/market requirements for solutions, and identifying specific success-metrics
  • Use best practices in product discovery (e.g. design sprints, prototyping, stakeholder interviews) to develop strong collateral (e.g. user stories, product requirements, customer value propositions, MVPs, tests, system integrations, failure contingencies) from which engineers can seamlessly develop high quality products 
  • Prioritize and manage product discovery backlog to deliver maximum value just-in-time
  • Contribute to team’s product discovery best practices toolkit and help colleagues think creatively about discovery in their respective focus areas
• Coordinate Product Delivery for the simulation ecosystem product suite
  • Ruthlessly prioritize product delivery backlog and create clarity wherever needed in order to improve team ability, velocity, and quality
  • Support engineer’s evaluation of design trade-offs for solutions
  • Own accountability for product delivery that is on-time, on-budget, and tightly aligned with product roadmap
  • Continually improve features by leveraging quantitative data (success KPIs, user engagement) and qualitative data to feedback into future product discovery/delivery 
• Serve as a senior leader with the Product Organization, helping to fulfill our company mission
  • Support Product’s efforts to systematize everything while also seeking to improve the experience for all those that participate in the product development process
  • Support commercialization’s efforts to monetize Equilibrium’s products
  • Support other team efforts as appropriate to increase our team’s intra-company clout 

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a technical or business discipline
• 3 years of experience in the energy industry 
• 1 years of experience with software product management
• Product management experience supporting software-centric product development

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in the energy industry, including experience with energy asset economics, electricity market design and operations, and grid modeling
• Deep domain expertise in energy systems modeling, including grid modeling, asset operations modeling, financial modeling, and market participation modeling. 
• Experience in software simulation ecosystem development and maintenance
• Familiarity with techniques for advanced analytics, machine-learning and optimization
• Working knowledge of security constrained unit commitment, energy asset dispatch optimization, production cost modeling, stochastic optimization, capacity planning modeling.  
• 2-8 years of experience in technical software product management with a track-record of delivering cloud-based applications to a growing customer user base
• Demonstrated leadership in building strong stakeholder relationships and mitigating conflict
• Comfort across dual-track Agile, CICD, and test-driven development approaches
• Masters or PhD degree in a technical discipline, as well as an MBA

What we offer

• Extremely promising company prospects, with top tier investors, experienced leadership, and top tier core technical team in place
• Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via meaningful equity grant
• Competitive salary and comprehensive medical, dental, vision and 401k benefits, with benefits growing as company grows
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation
• Deeply collaborative culture with a supportive, tight knit and fun team
• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States and other select geographies
• Growth opportunities to learn from other senior engineers, product managers and commercial leaders with a diverse set of skills and experiences across energy and technology

Get in touch

Interested? Reach out to us at hiring@equilibriumenergy.com. We can’t wait to tell you more about what we’re cooking up. All roles, titles, seniority, responsibilities specialization and compensation packages will be tailored to the applicant, so reach out if any of the above looks interesting.