Enterprise Data Analyst

Summary

Join Optiwatt, a company focused on decarbonizing the electric grid, as an Enterprise Data Analyst. You will be responsible for creating data-driven solutions for clients, supporting sales and client success teams, and maximizing value for utility clients. This role involves delivering high-quality program reporting, generating strategic insights, conducting in-depth research, identifying product needs, resolving data requests, ensuring data quality, and fostering a data-driven culture. You will need to be an expert in data analysis, capable of writing complex SQL queries and building dashboards. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, is a self-learner, and is a skilled solution partner with experience in utility and load management data science. Optiwatt offers competitive salaries and benefits, including remote work options, stock options, comprehensive healthcare, wellness benefits, flexible time off, and paid career development opportunities.

Requirements

• Be an expert in data analysis, from production data analytics to financial modeling, capable of writing complex SQL queries
• Excel at building dashboards and queries to inform key product and business decisions and act as a steward of data quality
• Thrive at the fast pace required at a Series A startup, capable of quickly putting together thoughtful and bug-free analyses
• Understand evolving business requirements, can appropriately prioritize near-term requests, and are proactive, getting stuff done while wearing multiple hats and context switching often
• Quickly learn new skills with minimal direction and are excited to tackle ambiguous challenges
• Have a proven track record of creating solutions for cross-functional teams, including developing robust load management performance insights and proof-of-concepts to support Optiwatt’s solutions and deliver more value for our clients
• Effectively partner with the product team to inform the product roadmap and understand how to prioritize client requests
• Communicate professionally and clearly with utility partners and Optiwatt’s broader clients
• Understand how to navigate difficult situations
• Deeply understand client needs and go beyond answering the direct questions by proactively delivering insights to delight a client

Responsibilities

• Deliver High-Quality Program Reporting: Provide high-quality program reporting and develop data tooling to support critical deliverables such as Monthly Reports and Quarterly Business Reviews for our utility clients and partners
• Generate Strategic Insights: Generate deep insights into the value of Optiwatt's product and approach from a load management perspective, ensuring alignment with utility client objectives
• Conduct In-Depth Research: Produce 1-2 deep research projects per quarter, focusing on the value proposition of Optiwatt for enterprise clients and comprehensive market analysis (i.e. the value of different load management tactics)
• Identify & Prioritize Product Needs: Identify and prioritize when to build reusable solutions vs creating one-off quick-fixes
• Resolve Data & Reporting Requests: Efficiently resolve data and reporting-related tickets within rapid timeframes (hours to a few days) with minimal reliance on Product or Engineering teams
• QA Data: Ensure the quality and trustworthiness of our data
• Foster Data-Driven Culture: Shape our culture to be more data-driven

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess a strong understanding of utility and load management fundamentals and needs
• Have experience evaluating utility programs and reporting on load shift performance, results, and forecasts
• Have interfaced with utility or large B2B clients
• Have spent time learning some of the latest AI technologies

Benefits

• Ability to work fully remote or hybrid (offices in Walnut Creek, Boulder, Columbus, and Minneapolis)
• Stock options dependent on experience and salary flexibility
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• $1,500 health & wellness purchase match
• 401k contribution and matching
• Every other Friday off (flex fridays)
• Flexible time off policy (no cap on days off as long as required work gets completed)
• Yearly company retreats
• Flexible work hours
• Paid career development opportunities
• Expensed home office supplies, work travel, team entertainment, etc. as necessary