JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Associate Product Manager

Location: Remote/Denver
Target hire date: 10/1/2022
Type: Full-Time Employee
Reports to: Sr. Product Manager

EEO STATEMENT

Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking an Associate Product Manager to join our quickly growing Client Solutions team and support the expansion of SunCentral, Pivot’s community solar management software. You will be joining a team enabling the rapid deployment of community solar across the country and at the forefront of emerging market opportunities in decarbonization. This role will serve as a critical connection between customers, operations, and software developers, translating strategic priorities and customer feedback into concrete products.
The ideal candidate for this role is:

• Humble
• Curious
• Team-oriented
• Driven to find compromise and creatively solve problems
• Organized and process-oriented

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as a liaison between Operations, Client Partnerships and Engineering, ensuring that the product priorities are clearly communicated, and support business needs for each stakeholder
• Spearhead the aggregation of user feedback and market research, and oversee the incorporation of these insights into the product
• Support the Product Managers and engineering team with prioritization of the product roadmap
• Define the requirements and the scope of new features, clearly enumerating acceptance criteria to ensure on-schedule delivery of features serving critical business needs
• Track and prioritize software defects and requests from reporting to resolution, working with the Client Partnership team to deliver best-in-class client satisfaction
• Conduct periodic maintenance of the product backlog and work with engineering team to prioritize and schedule hardening tasks
• Support software releases, including coordinating timelines and preparing release notes with customer-facing talk points; provide feedback to Product Managers on release implementation
• Schedule and maintain frequent retrospectives to build a culture of learning and growth
• Work to improve process so strategy, design, and development are in sync and with multiple touchpoints for feedback incorporation
• Develop a strategic mindset by surfacing issues, risks, and problems as necessary, proposing mitigation plans and solutions to overcome obstacles
• Join software team stand-up meetings to ensure priorities and blockers are clearly communicated

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• 2 years of software product management experience, or equivalent
• Experience working cross-functionally and bridging technical and non-technical audiences
• Willingness to try new approaches
• Comfort navigating product challenges in a high growth environment
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Proactive communication style

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

● Scrum, Agile or PMP certification
● Software development experience
● Familiarity with Microsoft Azure
● Background in data analytics and SQL

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The base salary range for this position is $50,000-$60,000 depending on relevant experience, along with eligibility for the company’s substantial bonus plan, with a target bonus of 50% of annual salary (prorated in first year based on start date). Total annual compensation potential, when including bonus, is $75,000-$90,000.
Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees, placing an emphasis on company culture, and a focus on our people. To that end, Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:

• Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
• Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations
• Company paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
• Generous parental leave
• 401(k) matching (after vesting period)
• Work from home stipend for new employees
• Public transit reimbursement
• PTO for volunteering in the community
• Charitable donation matching up to $500/year
• Professional development and educational reimbursements

A complete list of all the benefits Pivot offers may be provided upon request.

ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national solar provider that develops, finances, builds, and manages solar energy and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.

We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat.

As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe the business community is uniquely positioned to make a profound impact on a variety of social and environmental challenges. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment.

Pivot’s core values are:
• Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
• Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
• Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
• Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
• Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
• Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced