Director of Engineering Strategy and Operations, Uplight
$154-192k
+ Bonus
Clean energy technology partner
Open for applications
Clean energy technology partner
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$154-192k
+ Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fuel the transition to clean energy in order to build a more sustainable future.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a strategic and integral member of our CTO leadership team, and will work closely with all of our product, design, and engineering leaders to collaborate in creating annual and quarterly investment decision-making through OKRs and iterating on the system to more effectively execute them
- Strong alignment and passion for the Uplight Value and Mission
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in a strategic role (i.e. Chief of Staff, Program Management, Operations leadership, Management Consultant) within a fast-paced, growth-oriented organization
- Experience leading global, cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Proven ability to navigate teams through risk and uncertainty
- Successfully driven change management through global teams with desired outcomes
- Demonstrated to work collaboratively and efficiently with stakeholders throughout the organization
- Organized by data-driven decisions gathered by evolving feedback loops
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced, driven Director, Engineering Strategy and Operations to drive our company forward, and help us lead the clean energy revolution!
- This role reports to the CTO to work across Uplight to ensure we are an effective organization at delivering software that delights our customers towards achieving their outcomes - on time, at high quality, and as efficiently as possible. The opportunity is to make this scalable as we grow rapidly towards achieving our mission
- A key to success for the role is to lead process and coordination across the product development organization while amplifying effective communication in the organization. You drive focus in product and engineering while helping the CTO senior leadership team prioritize their efforts across the company, as a Chief of Staff
- This role serves as a force multiplier for the CTO leadership team
- Own and iterate engineering and product KPIs and metrics, partnering with product managers and leaders
- Lead product and engineering OKR development and execution oversight, providing updates to stakeholders
- Own and iterate on the product and engineering planning process
- Be extremely open and challenge the status quo looking for opportunities to continuously improve and prioritize our execution as a business in service of our customers
- Represent the CTO and the product and engineering org in key executive leadership functions
- Streamline and improve decision making and information sharing within product and engineering
- Oversee new and existing strategic initiatives including emerging technology, process improvement, and organizational transformations
- CTO logistics and day-to-day CTO staff operations, including managing the product and engineering corporate calendar and cadences
- Implement new processes within product and engineering and in partnership across the organization
- Connect work streams that would otherwise remain siloed, accounting for the needs across the enterprise (connect teams that are working on similar initiatives.)
- Operate at tactical, operational, and strategic levels, handling the oversight of projects that do not neatly fit within the organizational chart or that fall between departments or leadership areas of responsibility
- Be a source of innovation in ways of working for efficiency
- Coordinate and support the development of high-quality product and engineering presentations, reports and materials (i.e. board materials, Quarterly Business Reviews, etc)
Application process
- Application Deadline: August 12, 2025
Our take
Uplight provides end-to-end technology solutions that aim to increase efficiency within energy ecosystems. The company's tech solutions consist of energy personalization systems to motivate customers to use energy more efficiently, in addition to energy reports, marketplaces, and other API microservices. They're currently working with more than 80 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities.
Uplight’s software gives these utility companies granular data about how customers consume energy in their homes and businesses and offers ways to reduce their base power demand. They also offer a consumer marketplace for finding rebates and deals on energy-efficient appliances and electric vehicles.
The company has grown rapidly, reaching Unicorn status in 2021, despite only being founded two years previously. Uplight is entering its next phase of growth, focusing on significantly scaling its software solutions to further expand globally. It acquired Virtual Power Plant provider Autogrid in 2023 to embolden these aims.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Medical & Dental
- Flexible PTO
- 401k Match
- Parental Leave
- Peer Recognition
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Leadership
Luis D'Acosta
(CEO (Not Founder))Previously Executive Vice President at Schneider Electronics, CEO at SEL, Director General of Mexico for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Power Systems Manager in Mexico for ABB.
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