Head of Product, Sunsave
Significant Equity
4+ days a week in office (Chancery Lane, London )
The UK’s first solar subscription
Open for applications
The UK’s first solar subscription
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Significant Equity
4+ days a week in office (Chancery Lane, London )
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.
Role
Who you are
- Customer-Centric Thinker: You have an innate ability to empathise with customers, understand their needs and translate them into exceptional product experiences. You champion their voice at all times
- Analytical Decision Maker: You rely on data to make informed decisions and have a track record of analysing metrics to prioritise and improve product performance
- Long Term Strategist & Day to Day Executor: You're comfortable owning the long-term product roadmap but equally happy to roll your sleeves up and PM day to day (e.g. calling customers, scoping PRDs, manage the Product team, managing stakeholders)
- Exceptional Communicator: You’re skilled at articulating complex concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, from technical teams to customers and stakeholders
- Experienced Operator: You’ve led product teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, ideally within Seed-Series B consumer facing (B2C) start-ups
- Conceptually Curious: You don’t need to have worked in Energy or Finance before, but you’re excited to go deep and grasp complex concepts to tackle long-standing customer problems in innovative ways
What the job involves
- Product Strategy Ownership: Define, prioritise and own the multi-year product strategy to build a mass market decentralised energy product which competes with traditional grid energy and is deeply loved by its consumers
- Customer Insights: Obsessively engage with customers (qual & quant) to understand their needs, pain points, and feedback, translating insights into actionable product improvements
- Product Development Lifecycle: Lead end-to-end product development, including scoping, writing, and refining PRDs
- Stakeholder Alignment: Collate requirements across stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Lending, Compliance, Operations, Finance) and prioritise their requests within the context of the business objectives
- Team Leadership: Facilitate the day to day (e.g. stand-ups, weekly planning, refinement, track workstream progress) as well as build and mentor a world-class Product team that is passionate about understanding customers and solving their problems
- Iterative Improvement: Cultivate a culture of experimentation and learning by; running A/B tests, gathering feedback, tracking KPIs, speaking to customers and measuring impact
Application process
- Intro Call: Exploratory call to discuss your background and ask any initial questions about Sunsave
- Case Study: Take-home task to evaluate key skills for this role and follow-up call to go through this live (as well as a CV deep dive)
- Culture & Fit Interview: in person meeting to discuss your experiences, motivations for working at Sunsave
- Leadership Team Meetings: Coffee chats (in person) to meet the leadership team who you will be working closely with
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sunsave, founded in 2022, is on a mission to make solar energy and battery storage accessible to the mass market by removing the upfront costs and providing a subscription service that takes care of everything - from installation to maintenance - so that more UK households can save on their energy bills.
The model is designed to remove the biggest barrier to installing rooftop solar and storage - the ~£10k typical upfront cost and long payback period - allowing customers to save on their energy bills from day one. This is wrapped into a hassle-free service, with installation, monitoring, and maintenance included, which also enables households to sell excess electricity and participate in the smart grid.
The green company has already attracted the attention of blue-chip VC funds such as Norrsken, the UK Department of Energy, and household name entrepreneurs including Michael Spencer and Stuart Rose, raising ~£11M in funding and growing to ~30 FTEs. Sunsave is the first company to bring the tied and tested solar subscription business model to the UK and in doing so, will build the next green unicorn.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Even though everyone is so experienced, building a new business from scratch comes with lots of brand new challenges, especially one that's so..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2023
$7m
SEED
Jan 2022
$6.1m
SEED
Total funding: $13.1m
Company benefits
- Private health insurance
- Mental health support
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Team social events (remote & live)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) + extra holidays for long service
Company values
- Outcome not ego
- Empowered to thrive
- Act on your curiosity
- Strength in difference
- Build trust through transparency and communication
- Live your mission
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alick Dru
(Co-Founder)Ex VC Investor at SoftBank Vision Fund, ex Strategy Consultant at Strategy&, ex Founder at Spires, ex Founder at Tripr. Ex Oxford University.
Ben Graves
(Co-Founder)Ex PE Investor at EMK, ex Strategy Consultant at BCG, ex Customer Success at Triptease. Ex Oxford University.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sunsave
- One of our core values as a young start up is that there's strength in diversity.
- We believe that a team with different perspectives, backgrounds and life- experiences will always outperform a homogenous one.
- Practical ways we show our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team are:
- Flexibility of working hours and benefits to ensure employment suits different circumstances
- Enhanced parental leave
- Utilising software to test all job descriptions for unconscious bias
- Recruitment processes that are inclusive of our wider team and include an objectively measured skills based assessment wherever appropriate
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