Senior Product Designer, Voltus
$130-150k
With 10% bonus paid semi-annually, and equity
More information about location
Distributed energy resource connection and management
Job no longer available
Distributed energy resource connection and management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$130-150k
With 10% bonus paid semi-annually, and equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the distributed energy platform that fulfills the promise of the energy transition.
Role
Who you are
- You are someone who can help define our design strategy and think big about our product suite, but still sweats the nitty-gritty details of each feature
- You are eager to experiment with solutions, and know how to find a meaningful balance between optimizing for speed and quality
- You have professional experience designing useful tools that bring clarity to complex information and data sets
- You enjoy bringing structure to challenging webs of concepts and systems
- You are excited to help us refine our existing products, mature our budding design system, and grow design culture at Voltus
- You are bright, gritty, and good, and have a genuine passion for delivering a cleaner energy future
- 5+ years of experience in product design
- Self-initiated and curious, someone who is always looking for ways to improve our products and design workflows
- Awareness, empathy, intentionality
- Experience creating and shipping new products as well as refining existing products
- Experience designing data-rich UX
- Can thoughtfully allocate time across multiple projects operating at different paces
- Communicates well with others—especially important in a remote team
- Interested in building a positive and welcoming team culture
- Cares about the environmental impact of reduced energy use
- Eager to learn more about the energy industry and complex distributed systems
- Experience working in an agile, team environment
- An incredible portfolio
What the job involves
- At Voltus you will work on customer-facing products that make our customers’ lives easier while they get paid for using less energy
- You will be responsible for contributing to the overall design process—from research, to concept development, and delivery of clear and compelling interfaces and services that get the job done
- You will work within cross-functional teams of product managers and engineers to deliver great experiences to our users
- You will help the team build interfaces and services that allow humans to interact with the Voltus platform
- Your work will help customers better understand how they use energy, how much they spend on energy, how they can reduce their energy use, and how much they’ve earned from offering their operational flexibility and behind-the-meter assets to energy markets
- Design features and products for our growing energy toolset, using layout, hierarchy, UX best practices
- Collaborate with the Engineering and Product teams, as well as other stakeholders
- Facilitate discussion around your work and communicate the purpose of design decisions throughout the product development lifecycle
- Verify and improve on designs through reviews, validations, and formal usability testing with end users
- Get involved in user research and usability testing
- Actively contribute to our design system, help determine whether components are single-use or multi-use, and provide recommendations regarding new component requests
Our take
The push towards green energy, combined with a sharp pivot away from traditional energy sources like natural gas, has accelerated the development and commercialisation of new electrical supply solutions. One such solution is the leveraging of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs): small-scale supply or demand resources that can be hooked up to the electric grid to help meet (or ease) demand.
Voltus helps broker this connection between DERs and the grid, allowing commercial owners of DERs to connect them to all the wholesale electricity markets in Canada and the US, and thereby gain and manage a potentially substantial additional income stream.
Voltus doesn’t manage as much load as competitors in the space like Enel X and CPower, but with its 2021 SPAC funding, it’s aggressively driving to capture more of what’s quickly becoming a hefty market opportunity. Behind-the-meter loads like water heaters and AC, and energy sources like microgrids and EV chargers, are increasingly sought after by businesses and land owners, and Voltus is benefitting from partnerships with large businesses such as Madison Square Garden Arena and Western Grain Marketing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$31m
SERIES C
Oct 2020
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $66.1m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Unlimited leave for full-time employees
- Parental leave
- Comprehensive benefits package to promote health, wellness, and financial security
Company HQ
Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matthew Plante
(Co-Founder & President)Spent time as VP of Sales first at EnerNOC, then at Bidgely. Subsequently served as CEO of EcoFactor.
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