Principal Product Engineer, ev.energy

• A proven AI-native builder — you have taken at least one AI-powered product from concept through MVP to production scale, and you come with a specific story, not just a resume claim
• Deep hands-on fluency with AI coding and prototyping tools (Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) as a genuine force multiplier in how you design, build, and ship products
• Strong product instincts grounded in direct customer conversations — you’ve shaped what you built by talking to the people who use it
• Experience leading small, fast-moving squads and influencing product direction without relying on hierarchy
• Exceptional communication skills — written, verbal, and demo — credible with engineers, executives, and customers alike
• High bias for action and comfort with ambiguity — you make good decisions with incomplete information and don’t wait for a perfect brief
• Low ego, high standards — you’ll kill your own work when the data says to, and you know the best ideas don’t always come from you

Desirable

• This is not a role for someone who waits for consensus before moving. It is a role for someone who shapes the vision, owns the outcomes, and raises the bar for everyone around them
• As Principal Product Engineer, you’ll own the product vision across one of our two critical growth areas:
• Users — helping residential customers optimise energy use across EVs, home batteries, solar generation, thermostats and grid load shifting (demand energy resources, multi-DER). You’re essentially supporting the end users of our products & services - delighting them through seamless experiences
• You’ll work directly with Commercial, Demand Generation, and the CEO to translate market signals into product direction
• You’ll use AI tooling to move at a speed that surprises people — turning ideas into working demos in days, leading small squads (2–3 engineers) from concept to MVP, and putting products in front of real customers fast
• Critically, this role exists to develop a new way of working
• You’ll lead, inspire and motivate our Technology teams to build AI-first, prototype boldly, and ship without waiting for perfect
• This role will also be key to crafting the Agentic AI operating model that defines how ev
• Energy delivers customer solutions going forward
• You’ll have a peer focused on Utility Company solutions, giving ev
• Energy dedicated product leadership across both sides of the energy ecosystem — and giving you a thought partner who is operating with the same AI-first mandate
• Great Product Engineers don't come from the same cookie cutter — and we don't want them to
• This role has a tilt
• Your title will be Principal Product Engineer, but you'll bring a primary specialism from one of two disciplines: product management or engineering (full-stack, backend, or frontend)
• Your tilt is your superpower — it's the lens through which you approach problems, the depth you bring to your solutions, and the perspective you add to the team
• What unites everyone in this role is the ability to work across the full product lifecycle, a genuine AI-first way of working, and an obsession with building things that solve real customer problems
• We're not looking for generalists who are average at everything — we're looking for people with a strong foundation in their discipline who are curious, capable, and motivated enough to work beyond it
• Define, evolve and own the product vision for our end users (customers) — shaping the products, experiences, and capabilities that will define our next stage of growth
• Partner closely with Commercial, Demand Generation, and CEO leadership to identify key market and technology trends
• Turn ambiguous customer pain points into compelling product concepts, rapid experiments, and experiences that delight
• Act as a trusted product and technology voice with customers, strategic partners, and stakeholders across the energy ecosystem
• Influence not only what we build, but why we build it — balancing customer value, commercial impact, technical feasibility, and speed to market
• Turn concepts into working prototypes and demos in days, not months — good enough to test with real customers, not perfect enough to slow you down
• Partner with Commercial and Demand Generation to actively support customer growth — bringing new product concepts and working prototypes into sales conversations, pilot programmes, and client engagements
• Know when a rough AI-generated prototype is right for the moment and when production-grade engineering is needed — and apply that judgment
• Kill weak ideas early, scale promising ones aggressively, and maintain an uncompromising focus on product impact and customer value
• See hard product problems as puzzles to solve through customer insight and rapid experimentation — and bring the kind of energy and enthusiasm for building products people love that raises the bar for the entire team
• Operate with AI as a core part of your daily workflow — using tools such as Claude, Cursor, and emerging technologies to dramatically increase speed, quality, and leverage
• Set the standard for what modern AI-native product engineering looks like — combining rapid execution, technical fluency, and strong product intuition
• Share knowledge openly, challenge outdated ways of working, and raise the capability bar across the wider Technology organisation
• Push ideas forward without waiting for perfect information or full alignment — move, then adjust
• Help shape a culture that values experimentation, velocity, ownership, and commercial impact as much as technical excellence