Job description
Our mission:
Optiwatt’s mission is to reverse global warming through decarbonizing the electric grid by connecting and managing the electricity usage from electric vehicles and other smart energy devices. We make home energy usage cheaper, greener, and simpler by building towards the world’s largest network of connected and intelligent electric devices to balance the electric grid. Our investors are some of the most active impact investing firms out there, and we hold ourselves accountable to each other and the future generations of this planet. Do you want to straddle the intersection of technology and purpose on our growth trajectory to 1,000,000 homes and beyond? We hope so.
Your impact:
As an Enterprise Data Analyst, you will be directly responsible for helping us become a more data-driven organization. You’ll create solutions for our clients, load management and data products, and support our sales and client success teams to deliver outcomes and impact for our utility clients. You’ll bring and develop a deep understanding of Optiwatt’s load management performance and support Optiwatt in maximizing the value we generate for our utility clients.
Here’s some exciting stuff you will do:
- 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.
About You
You are someone who is….
- A Data Wizard: An expert in data analysis, from production data analytics to financial modeling, you are capable of writing complex SQL queries. You excel at building dashboards and queries to inform key product and business decisions and act as a steward of data quality.
- Moves at Startup Pace: Thrives at the fast pace required at a Series A startup, capable of quickly putting together thoughtful and bug-free analyses. You understand evolving business requirements, can appropriately prioritize near-term requests, and are proactive, getting stuff done while wearing multiple hats and context switching often.
- Self-Learning/Tinkerer: Can quickly learn new skills with minimal direction and are excited to tackle ambiguous challenges. Preferably, you have spent time learning some of the latest AI technologies.
- A Solution Partner: 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. You effectively partner with the product team to inform the product roadmap and understand how to prioritize client requests.
- Utility/Load Management Data Science Experience: Ideally possess a strong understanding of utility and load management fundamentals and needs. Even better if you have experience evaluating utility programs and reporting on load shift performance, results, and forecasts.
- An Effective Stakeholder Manager: Can communicate professionally and clearly with utility partners and Optiwatt’s broader clients. You understand how to navigate difficult situations. Ideally, you have interfaced with utility or large B2B clients.
- Inform Client Solutions: You deeply understand client needs and go beyond answering the direct questions by proactively delivering insights to delight a client.
Benefits
Grow with us
We are ramping up for our Series B and have investors from the most reputable names in venture capital and impact investing: Google Ventures, Navitas Capital, Urban Innovation Fund, and Active Impact Investments. If you’re interested in growth potential, the sky’s the limit here at Optiwatt.
We invest in your growth because we know that even if you aren’t with us forever, empowering you to better tackle climate change helps all of us. The best part of working in the clean technology industry is the enormous collaboration between companies, founders, investors, and yes, even utilities. Everyone is driven by the same goal: reduce global warming and move us towards a truly sustainable future.
We encourage you to step outside of your role and show us what you can do. Ask for opportunity and you will receive it, offer up ideas and you will be heard. We desire to match people with work that excites them the most, and we will support you in your journey to learn and grow towards accomplishing that goal.
If your resume doesn’t quite fit these job requirements, please apply anyway and tell us where you think you could help us! Climate change and grid stability are enormous problems and we would love help from talented people with any background.
Shine with us
Optiwatt is a small startup, but don’t let that fool you. We offer competitive salaries and benefits to all employees, rivaling the giants of the tech world. This role’s compensation package includes a base salary of $80k - $140k (dependent on experience), along with equity and benefits. Some of these amazing perks include:
- 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, 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
