Consumer Product Manager

March 1

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Optiwatt

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Optiwatt is a company that provides an app designed to enhance electric vehicle (EV) charging efficiency and savings. The app helps users schedule EV charging during off-peak hours to reduce costs and extend battery life. It offers features like real-time rate tracking, emissions optimization, and customizable scheduling. Optiwatt also supports a variety of EV brands and connects to users' utility providers to automatically sync electricity rates. The service is free, leveraging partnerships with utility companies to generate savings from which it derives revenue. Optiwatt emphasizes environmental benefits by shifting energy use to cleaner, off-peak times.

Tesla Motors and Software Development

2 - 10 employees

⚡ Energy

🚗 Transport

💰 $4.3M Seed Round on 2022-02

📋 Description

• As a Consumer Product Manager on the Experience team, you will be directly responsible for shaping the web and mobile apps that hundreds of thousands of homeowners interface with. • Shape the roadmap, by making prioritization decisions based on user and market data to connect millions of electric vehicles, chargers, thermostats, batteries, and other DERs to our energy supply. • Grow the company’s consumer product from strategic insights you gather, working alongside a small team of driven software developers, product designers, and marketing gurus. • Obsess over user stories, identifying pain points and addressing 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 product development team that shares a unified vision of excellence for Optiwatt that will drive organic growth, quality engagement, and strong retention for many years to come. • 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.

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

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work fully remote or hybrid (offices in Walnut Creek, SF, Boulder, and Minneapolis) • 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, 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