Full-Time VP, Product Management
Job Description
Who we are:
Arcadia is the technology company empowering energy innovators and consumers to fight the climate crisis. Our software and APIs are revolutionizing an industry held back by outdated systems and institutions by creating unprecedented access to the data and clean energy needed to make a decarbonized energy grid possible.
In 2014, Arcadia set out on its mission to break the fossil fuel monopoly and since then we have been knocking down the institutional barriers to unlock decarbonization. To date, we have connected hundreds of thousands of consumers and small businesses with high-quality clean energy options. Fast forward to today, and now, we’re thinking even bigger. We have launched Arc, an industry-defining SaaS platform that empowers developers and energy innovators to deliver their own custom, personalized energy experiences, accelerating the transformation of the industry from an analog energy system into a digitized information network.
Tackling one of the world’s biggest challenges requires out-of-the-box thinking & diverse perspectives. We’re building a team of individuals from different backgrounds, industries, & educational experiences. If you share our passion for ushering in the era of the clean electron, we look forward to learning what you would uniquely bring to Arcadia!
What we’re looking for:
We are seeking a VP Product Management to help lead the company through its next critical growth phase. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this person will lead and scale a high-functioning product management organization. This individual will be responsible for product roadmaps for both our community solar and our API platform businesses. They will anticipate opportunities in a quickly evolving market, and help to further propel Arcadia’s mission of making renewable energy accessible to all. A trusting & empowering yet fiercely committed people manager, the VP will develop rigorous frameworks for our PMs to do their best work; provide the holistic context needed to guide both their long-term goal-setting and everyday decision-making; and support their career growth and development. Additionally, this individual must be passionate about decarbonization and sustainability.
Arcadia is headquartered in Washington, DC, and open to fully remote candidates.
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What you’ll do:
- Deeply understand the strategic vision of the company; help guide our product teams to ship products that both delight customers and deliver on our decarbonization and sustainability goals
- Oversee and be accountable multi-quarter product roadmaps across multiple business lines that will help usher in a period of growth in renewable energy and combat climate change
- Lead, mentor, and develop a dynamic team of product directors
- Build, institutionalize, and manage frameworks & processes for PMs to do their best work. Help guide their short- and long-term goals, priorities, decisions, and deliverables
- Collaborate with the Chief Product Officer to help define and unify product vision, goals, functionality, and requirements; act as his deputy and the Voice of Product in conversations up, down, and across the organization
- Collaborate cross-functionally with peers in Engineering, Design, and Data to define and evolve a scalable, repeatable product process to deliver products on time
- Maintain an ecosystem in which great ideas are heard, qualified, and invested in
- Practice and cultivate a culture of transparent, cascading communications
- Apply technical, analytical, and UX expertise to guide data-driven, customer-centric decisions
What will help you succeed:
Must-haves:
- 7+ years experience in a product management or similar role, including 3+ years managing and growing diverse, high performing product teams
- Experience building B2B software products with a customer centric mindset
- Proven track record of leading and delivering user-driven products, with an emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
- A strong technical background and experience delivering loveable products for technical customers/users
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated ability to build alignment across all stakeholders, including senior management, through effective trust-building, negotiation, and influence with & without authority
- Bias for quantifiable results versus activity, and willingness to hold yourself & others accountable for delivering results
- High degree of creativity and willingness to experiment
- Resourcefulness
- Humility
- Passion for our mission, sustainability, and helping drive a clean-energy future
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience working in a regulated or highly commoditized vertical (e.g. energy, finance, telecom, healthcare)
- Experience working with and supporting enterprise customers
- CS or engineering degree with an understanding of how to build quality developer experiences, API products, and scalable data architectures
Benefits:
- Market-based compensation (salary, commission and equity)
- Healthcare, dental, vision, 401(k) and commuter benefits
- Paid Time Off (holidays, vacation, professional development, volunteer, parental leave)
- Professional development opportunities
- All-company lunches
- Free clean energy
- A chance to decarbonize and disrupt the energy sector
Eliminating carbon footprints, eliminating carbon copies.
Here at Arcadia, we cultivate diversity, celebrate individuality, and believe unique perspectives are key to our collective success in creating a clean energy future. Arcadia is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. While we are currently unable to consider candidates who will require visa sponsorship, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates eligible to work in the United States.
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