Optiwatt is hiring a
Director of Product

Summary

Join Optiwatt as the Head of Product to shape technology that interfaces with home energy usage, EVs, smart thermostats, solar, storage, and IoT devices. This role requires strategic thinking, experience with consumer applications, proficiency in wireframing feature concepts using Figma, data-oriented decision making, leadership skills, and a strong understanding of software applications.

Requirements

• Excited to work on any of the following; electric vehicles, the electric grid, green technology, cost savings, and consumer focused applications
• Strategic thinker who can build the business cases for future products and direction
• Experienced with consumer applications
• Proficient in wireframing feature concepts using Figma and constructively iterating on design with UI/UX staff
• Analyze product usage and implement continuous data-driven improvements
• Naturally gifted in leadership, able to motivate teams to push towards product milestones with pace and accountability
• Have a strong understanding of software applications
• Data oriented in decision making, able to construct insights using knowledge of SQL or relational databases to learn and adapt from user behavior
• Excellent in evaluating tradeoffs between items on the product roadmap to maximize business outcomes given numerous constraints
• Highly motivated, target driven, with a proven track record in product management and a desire to grow yourself within Optiwatt by pulling in work that excites you
• Educated, with a minimum of a Bachelor's in business administration, graphic design, communications, psychology, or an engineering field (exceptions made for deep industry experience or a proven track record of scrappy success). Advanced degrees in analytical, behavioral, or creative fields are encouraged but not required

Responsibilities

• Shape the technology that tens of thousands of homeowners interface with every day
• Define our roadmap, by making prioritization decisions based on user and market data to connect thousands of electric vehicles to our energy supply
• Grow the company’s consumer and B2B applications from strategic insights you gather
• Identify pain points and address our users’ heartfelt desires through creative feature design
• Conduct competitive analysis on a recurring basis, ensuring that Optiwatt continues to target large and strategic opportunities to reliably capture market share
• Live and breathe this product, working to build a team of product managers that share a unified vision of excellence for Optiwatt

Benefits

• Ability to work fully remote, hybrid, or in-person in San Francisco
• 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 to far-away places (we are hitting Lake Tahoe and Ecuador this year!)
• Flexible work hours, and we mean it. We want you to work when you are most productive, no matter if you are a night owl, early bird, or live in a different US time zone
• Paid career development opportunities (learn a skill!)
• Expensed home office supplies, work travel, team entertainment, etc. as necessary