Consumer Product Manager

Summary

Join Optiwatt, a company dedicated to reversing global warming through electric vehicle adoption and home electrification, as a Consumer Product Manager. You will play a key role in shaping the web and mobile apps used by hundreds of thousands of homeowners, influencing the product roadmap based on user and market data. Collaborate with a talented team to build home energy savings products, conduct user surveys, and prioritize the product roadmap. You will also interface with marketing, continuously improve the product, and contribute to a unified vision of excellence. This role requires experience with consumer mobile and web applications, user-centric thinking, and proficiency in data analysis and design tools. Optiwatt offers competitive salaries and benefits, including remote work options, stock options, comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Experienced with consumer mobile and web applications
• User-centric - always thinking about what’s best for our customers
• Familiar with working at an early-stage, remote startup
• Comfortable analyzing product usage data using SQL queries and analytics tools like Posthog to measure the impact of product releases on company goals
• Proficient in wireframing feature concepts using Figma and constructively iterating with product designers
• Experienced in sending customer emails and running A/B tests via a platform like Klaviyo or Braze
• Naturally gifted in leading through influence, able to motivate teams to push towards product milestones with pace and accountability
• Able to collaborate effectively with engineering through a strong understanding of software applications and technical architectures
• Excellent in evaluating tradeoffs between items on the product roadmap to maximize customer and business outcomes given numerous constraints
• Highly motivated, outcome driven, with a proven track record in product management and a desire to grow yourself within Optiwatt by pulling in work that excites you
• A strategic thinker who can build the business cases for future products and direction

Responsibilities

• Build home energy savings products that connect to EVs, smart thermostats, solar, storage, and many other IoT devices
• Build products that lower homeowner’s energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint
• Survey current and potential users on their needs to guide implementation of features, source new ideas, and evaluate product performance
• Work alongside a talented team of senior engineers who have expertise in consumer, energy, and smart device applications
• Prioritize our product roadmap to best meet business needs, taking into account resource, finance, time, and market constraints
• Test creative outside-the-box ideas and iterate constantly to disrupt Optiwatt’s status quo from within and unlock deeper product value in every corner of the application
• Interface directly with marketing to communicate features to the public as the voice of our user base, ensuring that our offerings are as intuitive as possible to interested parties
• Continuously improve through feedback, as an individual, team, and organization

Preferred Qualifications

Excited to work on any of the following; electric vehicles, smart thermostats, the electric grid, climate tech, cost savings, and consumer focused applications

Benefits

• Ability to work fully remote or hybrid (offices in Walnut Creek, SF, Boulder, Minneapolis and Columbus)
• Stock options dependent on experience and salary flexibility
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• $1,500 improvement or mental wellness purchase match
• 401k contribution and matching
• Every other Friday off
• Unlimited paid vacation/sick leave, including a mandatory 10 days off per year
• Yearly company retreats
• Flexible work hours
• Paid career development opportunities
• Expensed home office supplies, work travel, team entertainment, etc. as necessary