Energy Products Program Manager
$150–$170,000 year
HybridBerkeley, California, United States
Job Summary
Own day-to-day execution of Copper's pilots and programs by tracking status, resolving blockers, and keeping partners aligned as the primary operational contact. Prepare for and run recurring meetings with clear notes and action items, while maintaining documentation and trackers to ensure accurate reporting. Partner with Engineering and Product throughout the new product development lifecycle, tracking milestones across design, prototyping, and test builds to flag risks early. Translate technical requirements between engineering teams and external stakeholders, supporting installations in person as needed to build field fluency. Help scope additional pilots and track policy, regulatory, and market developments to inform program strategy and new opportunity evaluations.
Required Qualifications
- Successful track record in program management, operations, or similar execution-focused roles
- Background in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering
- Strong organizational instincts
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- High attention to detail
- Comfortable running meetings
- Comfortable being the face of a program to outside partners
- Bias toward action
- Comfortable in ambiguity
- Default to figuring things out rather than waiting for instructions
- Eager to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and operations teams
- Curious and analytical
- Energized by digging into a policy filing
- Energized by analyzing product performance data
- Energized by making the case to launch a new program
- Willingness to travel locally
- Willingness to support installs in person
- Full-time position availability
- In-office 4 days per week availability
- 1 day flexible for in-office or remote work availability
- Location in or near Berkeley, CA
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally with exposure to renewable energy
- Ideally with exposure to field operations
- Ideally with exposure to hardware
- Experience working alongside hardware or product engineering teams
- Experience through a design-build-test cycle
- Experience with NPI
- Experience with DVT/PVT
- Experience with VPPs
- Experience with residential energy programs
- Experience with solar
- Experience with batteries
- Experience with HVAC
- Experience with other home electrification
- Exposure to energy policy
- Exposure to utility programs
- Exposure to regulatory processes
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