Vice President of Engineering, Arcadia
$245-305k
+ Equity
More information about location
Climate software & data company
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Climate software & data company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$245-305k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Arcadia's mission is to stop climate change and break the fossil fuel monopoly by making clean energy simple and accessible for all.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone with experience transforming engineering organizations in fast-growth B2B organizations serving traditional industries such as healthcare, energy, manufacturing/supply chain, and telecom
- Experience leading B2B products in hard/complex industries such as energy, healthcare, manufacturing/supply chain
- A track record of driving urgency and speed in your teams through inspiration, coaching, and accountability
- Prior experience building and leading large, cohesive, highly productive engineering teams across multiple functions
- Prior experience leading teams that built data products and data pipelines, using modern cloud technology solutions (Snowflake, Databricks, AI, etc)
- Prior experience in a VP, Engineering or equivalent role, but still involved in day-to-day architecture decisions and delivery execution
- Extensive experience managing teams building highly complex products spanning multiple existing platforms and services (e.g., acquired through M&A)
- Experience managing teams building cloud-based services
- Indisputable technical chops; you’ve advanced or made notable contributions to the developer community during your career, and your domain expertise motivates & sets the standard for the people you lead
- Acute business acumen, both breadth & depth when it comes to understanding a business, and the ability and inherent desire to make technical decisions within the larger context of company objectives
- Decisiveness; when making technical decisions, you carefully weigh trade-offs between functionality, quality, and technical debt, and lead the team to quickly set a path forward and execute against it
- Excellent interpersonal skills & ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Passion for our mission, sustainability, and helping drive a clean-energy future
- Prior experience managing a distributed, remote, and global workforce
- Prior experience with our tech stack, which includes Java, Snowflake/DBT, Python, React, and MySQL. Our infrastructure is primarily AWS-based
Desirable
- Experience implementing AI systems, especially using Generative AI
- Experience in the energy industry
What the job involves
- We are seeking a technology and performance-driven VP, Engineering to evolve and lead Arcadia’s Energy Data Platform engineering team
- This includes owning the software stack, architecture, development process, and engineering team & culture
- This highly visible leadership role will be responsible for working cross-functionally to rapidly build new products, better integrate and upgrade existing systems, modernize the architecture, support customers, and implement AI across all products
- This leader will own front-end, back-end, and foundational/SRE engineering
- This role will report to the Head of Product & Engineering as the leader for all global engineering
- They will immediately assume leadership of a talented 100+-person engineering department across the US and India, and must be based in the United States
- We are expanding our market leadership position in the clean energy transition with new products and capabilities, and are looking for a VP, Engineering who can accelerate that through performance, modern technology, and culture
- The leadership team is in Washington DC, so there is a requirement of travel 1x/month to meet with the team
- Mentor and guide engineering leads to design and deliver on their roadmaps per deadlines and quality standards
- Uphold and further build upon a strong, progressive engineering culture that values – among other things – performance, technical ownership, creativity, and accountability; cultivate an environment that spawns innovation and speed, surfaces the best ideas, and attracts & retains top talent
- Partner with executive leaders and other stakeholders to establish company strategy & roadmaps; collaborate cross-functionally to align priorities, manage expectations, and escalate engineering considerations and contingencies
- Lead delivery of all new products, features, and applications across all of Arcadia’s current and future platforms
- Ensure systems infrastructure scales to appropriately support development activity and rapid product adoption
- Strategically evaluate, recommend, and successfully introduce new technologies & software development practices and methodologies, including AI
- Demonstrate, coach, recognize, advocate for, invest in, and demand technical excellence
- Deliver results in the fast pace of a growing startup with the highest quality standards focused on customer value creation
- Design, recruit and empower a team of mission-driven engineers
Our take
Arcadia believes that without access to clear and actionable consumer data, companies’ climate plans are likely to prove fruitless. Fortunately, data is something Arcadia has an abundance of, with access to 95% of US utility accounts.
The company actually started with a B2C model, matching residents with suitable renewable energy sources based on their utility bill data, then shifted into community solar projects. Now armed with a high volume of consensually-shared customer data, Arcadia’s B2B API platform, Arc, allows companies to access its datasets in order to optimize their offerings.
The platform is used by the likes of electric vehicle charging network EVgo, as well as Ford, Oracle, and Airbnb. Its growing popularity and growth potential has seen Arcadia win major investment which will support the further development of Arc, as well as helping to accelerate its community solar business.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$125m
LATE VC
Total funding: $561m
Company benefits
- Remote first culture: Work anywhere in the US as long as you have a reliable internet connection.
- Flexible PTO: No accrued hours and no limit on the number of vacation days employees can take each year.
- Medical, dental, and vision: 80-95% employer cost coverage for medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents. Transparency in coverage.
- Company-wide holidays: 15 annual company-wide holidays including a week long "summer break".
- Weekly "flex time": No internal meetings on Tuesdays and Friday afternoons.
- Paid leave: 12 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, 10 days sick leave, up to 4 weeks bereavement leave.
- Additional time off: 2 volunteer days off, 2 professional development days off.
Company values
- Build for all
- Build for good
- Build together
- Build with urgency
- Build for simplicity
Company HQ
Penn Quarter, Washington, DC
Articles
Leadership
Kiran Bhatraju
(CEO)Former Legislative Assistant for the US House of Representatives, and former Truman National Security Project Fellow. Board Member at AppHarvest and member of the World Wildlife Fund National Council. Founded and was Director of Business Development at Energy company American Efficient from 2010 to 2014.
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