Home Electrification Advisor

Home Electrification Advisor

We are a dynamic, fast growing startup seeking a new team member who understands building systems and gets excited about improving the comfort, efficiency, and carbon footprint of homes. This new team member's role will also include consultative sales and lots of direct customer engagement. If this resonates, please review the rest of this job posting and apply using this link.

At Zero, we are changing the paradigm of how homeowners plan and purchase energy upgrades for their homes. We are streamlining today’s time-intensive and often frustrating process with an app-based experience that delivers actionable intelligence and quotes to homeowners so they can get their projects done without in-home visits.

It’s never been more important to help homeowners understand the health of their home, how it impacts the planet, and to make it easier for them to take action. With Zero, homeowners experience a quick, no pressure, and even delightful experience purchasing upgrades for their home. And by partnering with a trusted network of Trade Partners, Zero helps to facilitate installations for heat pumps, solar panels, and electrical upgrades giving homeowners a single point of contact through their project.

Who we are

Zero is on a mission to electrify the world’s homes for healthy and sustainable living. We believe everyone has the right to a healthy home. We’re solving the world’s hardest problem, climate change, and we’re looking to grow our team with similarly minded, passionate change-makers who want to dramatically impact and improve millions of people’s lives.

Born out of previous experience running a general contracting business and designing remote-sensing satellites at NASA, Zero is building the toolkit to digitally assess homes and automate the design of all-electric home energy upgrades. We are building a simple experience for homeowners to enable them to plan, purchase, and schedule installations with local, certified contractors. 

Zero is based in Denver, CO, venture-backed, and partnered with the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Learn more at zerohomes.io 

Who you are

You have a background in and/or basic understanding of building systems and are eager to help improve the comfort, efficiency, and carbon footprint of homes. You have consultative sales experience dealing directly with customers. You’re an extrovert, find it easy to connect with people, and get excited by helping educate people and problem solve. You’re a strong communicator and feel confident interacting with a variety of people. You’re a fast learner, are comfortable operating in ambiguity and are a great teammate. You have a high attention to detail, are able to juggle multiple tasks at once, and hold yourself to a high standard. You’re passionate about climate change and want to be part of a team making a tangible impact in improving people’s lives and saving the planet!

What you’ll do

You’ll be the first touchpoint a customer has with Zero and will serve as a guide to homeowners to educate them about electric technologies, their capabilities and limitations. You will provide virtual consultations to homeowners helping them to collect and provide information needed to complete electrification projects. Using our proprietary software, ZERO, you will create system designs and quotes for homeowners using the information collected during consultations. You will advise homeowners on how these systems can solve their problems, and you will provide consultative sales to help customers purchase electric upgrades. You will collaborate with other Operation Team Members to update our processes, complete technical review of quotes, and stay on top of evolving standards. You will leverage your learnings to provide critical feedback that will serve to improve our product, processes, and make the overall consultation as impactful and efficient as possible.

Qualifications

Strong candidates will meet many, but not all, of the following skills and experience:

• Deep understanding of residential buildings (i.e., Building Science, residential mechanical,  electrical, plumbing (MEP)) or a general construction background
• 2+ years of sales experience and/or customer-facing retail sales experience
• Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills  
• Tech savviness and willingness to learn new software systems 
• Ability to explain technical information or industry jargon in an easy-to-understand way
• Demonstrated aptitude working with productivity & CRM software such as Google Workspace or HubSpot
• Demonstrated ability to proactively manage competing demands and changing schedules to complete tasks in a timely and diligent manner
• Adaptable, flexible, collaborative team player who brings a positive can-do attitude
• High attention to detail, curiosity,  and willingness to research unique solutions for customers
• Excellent organization, record-keeping, and time-management skills

Nice to have

• BPI-Analyst/Professional, HVAC sales experience
• Ability to speak Spanish or Mandarin to support customers or partners whose native language is not English.

Compensation: 

The expected compensation for this role is $100,000-$120,000 depending on experience, with a meaningful commission and equity component.

Benefits

• Meaningful Stock Options
• Health Insurance
• Workstation Stipend
• 2 Work from Home days per week
• Unlimited PTO + Unlimited Sick Days
• Relocation (as needed)

How to Apply

Please submit your resume at the following link: Zero Homes Application Page AND include a link to a 3 minute video recording answering the following questions: 

1. What excites you about this role and why are you the right person for it?
2. What about our company mission speaks to you? 
3. What makes you want to work at a startup or company of less than 10 people? Have you done so previously? Tell us about that experience!

We can’t wait to hear from you!