Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About Common Energy

Common Energy is revolutionizing the energy sector. Our platform enables businesses and homeowners to support new clean energy projects, lower carbon emissions, and save on their electricity with their existing utility account. There is no on-site installation and signing up only takes two minutes. As such, we are a key part of the solution to mitigate global climate change.

Common Energy is backed by one of the country’s leading climate funds and its board and advisors include former executives from Facebook, Google and President Obama’s cabinet. We are seeking an experienced contract Product Manager to join our product development team.

The Role

As a contract Product Manager, you’ll be primarily responsible for driving the transformation of our core operations platform. You should:

• Hit the ground running; leading the project and delivering value to users in the first week
• Communicate with radical candor, meeting confrontation with respect and compassion
• Prepare GANTT charts, coordinate engineers, lead a design or problem solving session, and gather user feedback all in the same day
• Answer for slipping timelines and missed milestones

You will report directly to our VP of Software (hiring manager) but will have the support of the product leadership group, the product engineering team and their institutional knowledge. You should be an efficient self-starter, motivated to deliver value to meaningfully improve our internal user’s experiences thereby increasing efficiency and mitigating risk of human error. You should be a nimble multi-disciplinarian capable of absorbing and articulating the details of our business in short order. You should be curious and ambitious, ready to follow or lead depending on the circumstances.

Responsibilities

• Review and revise existing project discovery, requirements, and documentation
• Write and manage user stories, requirements, and prioritization
• Kanban board management (Shortcut)

• Integrate into our product development team and participate in shaping our roadmap, processes, and team culture
• Report on progress weekly to product leadership group

• Manage progress and push project forward daily
• Interface with our internal operations and customer service teams
• Collaborate on QA processes

Contract Details

• 3 month 1099 contract with option to extend
• Part-time 20-30h per week
• Remote first, with presence in the NYC Office as needed (expectation: on average once or twice a week)
• US work authorization required

Requirements

Experience Required

• 8+ years of experience as product manager in fast-paced environment
• Must have previous experience as project-based / contract product manager
• Experience managing internal platform/backoffice applications
• Experience in startup product development
• Experience collaborating on UI/UX design
• Experience managing long running, incremental release initiatives

Experience Wanted

• Experience with Salesforce and AWS
• Experience with micro-service architecture
• Experience with both B2B and B2C (SaaS-like)
• Experience with email campaign automation
• Experience with customer journey design
• Experience mentoring product managers

Benefits

Company Values and Diversity

Common Energy believes that a diverse team enhances our company’s performance and outcomes for our clients. We welcome different perspectives and opinions to foster innovation, authenticity, and excellence across all parts of our business.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Common Energy welcomes applicants from all walks of life. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Compensation and Other Good Stuff

• Compensated hourly at $120-150/hr, commensurate with experience

• High-impact position to save the earth!

• Work with and learn from the best: Our tight-knit team includes experts across the energy sector

• One team, no politics.

• This is a term position - 3 month contract duration with possibility of contract extension based on project needs, or permanent hire for the right candidate

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Permanent employment, Contract work, Part time, Remote job,

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