Product Manager, Data Products

Full-time; Remote; Exempt

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

We are growing our team and seeking an entrepreneurial and technical product manager to join our product, design, engineering, and data science team. This position will be responsible for the data products that we are building to serve both our own consumer-facing software tools and the broader electrification ecosystem. This role is responsible for helping to craft our platform vision, and in the near term it will be responsible for our Incentives API, which powers Rewiring America’s incentives calculator, surfacing a comprehensive database of electrification incentives to support electrification. It will also be responsible for the data science model that backs our Personal Electrification Planner, estimating the upfront and ongoing costs and benefits of electrifying the fossil fuel machines across the United States. This role reports to the Head of Product.

What You’ll Do

You will be the product lead for our Incentives API and our home energy costs and benefits model, as well as future electrification data products that we choose to develop. As a PM, you will be responsible for defining and measuring success of these products, directing and conducting user research, and collaborating with internal experts and stakeholders to inform our plans. You will define the work and roadmap and lead any necessary pivots in plans based on whether the product is achieving its goals and meeting user needs.

You will also help define our API platform and open source strategy by evangelizing and collaborating with external stakeholders at non-profits, startups, and large companies in the electrification ecosystem. You will actively participate in collaborative technical projects that we lead or participate in to drive the collective work forward.

You will:

• Build deep knowledge of the electrification ecosystem and how we can accelerate market transformation by building products enabling it
• Collaborate closely with internal product, engineering, data science, policy, and research teams to understand how data products and insights can accelerate our internal roadmap and goals
• Synthesize those needs into a product strategy and prioritization framework with clear, measurable goals
• Collaborate closely with engineering on data standards and structures, technical specs, and internal and external API documentation
• Drive build/buy.partner decisions for data capabilities required for our work
• Cultivate a collaborative group of external partners who use our APIs and give us feedback to improve
• Shape and execute on an open source strategy that allows others to build on our work and shares the maintenance burden where possible
• Create clear success criteria, measure the results, learn and iterate

Requirements

The incoming Product Manager will be driven by a commitment to Rewiring America’s values, vision, and mission. Through their track record in product management, engineering, and other technical roles, the successful candidate embraces the idea that we can do big things, and demonstrates humility, curiosity, and a learner’s mindset. They recognize that the stakes of what we are trying to accomplish depend on a passionate, high-functioning, and reliable team.

The Product Manager joins a team that operates with a sense of urgency and a track record of success across the fields of science, technology, business, policy, and politics. They add technical acumen and experience building and leading developer-facing products to the team.

The successful candidate demonstrates enthusiasm for making electrification easy, and models excellence and integrity in all they do. The selected candidate will also possess the following Core and Preferred qualifications and characteristics:

Core

• Strong commitment to the mission, policies and goals of Rewiring America.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in software product management, engineering management or another technical leadership role
• Strong technical aptitude and experience driving the direction for technical or developer-facing products like an API platform or machine learning model
• Great listening skills and a strong empathy for users
• Outstanding communication skills, both verbally and writing, especially focused on communicating complex technical topics clearly and simply
• A track record of achieving results and leading complex projects well
• A deeply collaborative approach to the work with passion and energy that inspires others
• Humility and team-first approach, with a demonstrated a positive impact on the teams you’ve worked with
• Track record of hands-on tinkering or prototyping to test the value of new tools and technologies.

Preferred:

• Domain knowledge of energy data, energy modeling, utility energy programs, and building electrification
• Experience as a software engineer, data engineer or data scientist and core technical skill sets in one of those domains
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, science, or equivalent experience

Benefits

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $125,000 – $150,000, commensurate with experience. Our comprehensive benefits package includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). Employees are able to enroll in 401k retirement plan and are eligible for a 3% automatic contribution and up to a 3% employer match on 401k contributions. Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (15 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. Employees are eligible for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave after 90 days of employment. Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. We offer access to professional development resources.

Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Rewiring America values diversity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

Hiring Statement

Rewiring America is a project of Windward Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Windward Fund is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Windward Fund ‘s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.

Application Procedure

To apply or nominate a candidate, please submit an application and resume via the Rewiring America page at Workable.This position is open until filled, and we are moving quickly to fill this position — apply as soon as possible. Candidate review and phone screens begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search period.