Product Manager, Octopus Energy Group
Octopus Energy Engineering
$90-130k
+ Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
2+ days a week in office
The UK's most awarded energy supplier
Posted today
The UK's most awarded energy supplier
1001+ employees
Posted today
$90-130k
+ Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.
Role
Who you are
- Real care for our customers and passion for delivering excellent customer experience
- Excellent written communication skills, e.g. clearly laying out trade-offs where product decisions are required or sharing key updates with wider team visibility
- Excellent day-to-day project management skills, identifying blockers and remedying to ensure a high pace of delivery is maintained
- Experience taking problems, rather than strict guidelines, and developing strong solutions
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers about system architecture
- Ability to recognize what needs to be done, and, just as importantly, what doesn’t need to be done right now
- The ability to spin many plates and context switch between competing demands on a regular basis
- A drive to collaborate and reach common understanding
- Comfort proactively reaching out to multiple teams, ability to maintain strong working relationships across continents / different timezones
- Familiarity with backend and frontend engineering concepts
- A bias toward the proactive with an ability to make decisions quickly
- Confidence tackling large-scale tasks individually
- An empathetic approach to delegating work and collaborating with others
- We’re looking for people who want to take part in this journey and help shape the future of energy in the US. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to chat
Desirable
- Previous experience in a fast-paced environment
- Previous experience in the energy industry
What the job involves
- As a member of the Octopus Tech Team, you'll have real ownership, variety, and the chance to shape products that make a tangible difference in people's lives – lowering bills, enabling greener living, and delivering experiences customers genuinely love
- You'll work side by side with teams across customer service, sales & marketing, operations, finance and data, and see the impact of your work in the real world, fast
- We are currently looking for a US-based Product Manager to support our Octopus Energy Engineering team; in the US this is mainly Frontend developers with a growing backend function
- Your work will split across managing priorities for the US-based devs and coordinating projects with the global engineering team
- Working with global Octopus Energy engineering teams to promote and enable the development of full-stack features using the Octopus Energy backend
- Migrating existing Octopus Energy-specific features from other repositories to the Octopus Energy backend
- Incubating and implementing features with the US team, then supporting further productionizing to make available globally
- Developing features with scalability in mind to ensure seamless adoption across all Octopus Energy regions. This involves gathering requirements from each region and defining a unified core solution that meets the needs of all eight regions
- Defining the technical requirements for dependencies on other teams and clearly communicating the priority of these requests to Client Delivery teams
- Maintaining the feature set to a very high degree of functionality and stability, regularly performing codebase optimization and tidying of tech debt
- We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity. We don’t hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all while being themselves
- Become an expert in our vendor software toolsets (like Kraken) which much of our tech stack is deeply integrated with
- Perform initial issue investigation (e.g. via UI and basic tooling) to assist bug triage process and manage efficient resolution
- Efficiently bring together subject matter experts for rapid decision making when implementing features/bug fixes & proactively make decisions yourself where needed
- Weekly prioritization of demands on US engineering team across new feature releases and resolving bugs; clear communication on goals and reflection on delivery
- Collaborate with senior team members to build an achievable and well-considered product roadmap; early recognition & signaling of factors which could impact delivery
- Proactively remove blockers for developers (e.g. ensuring data access, advancing critical dependencies ahead of schedule)
- Our stack..
- Notion
- Asana
- Miro
- Figma
- Python-based development framework
- Database management
- API design (GraphQL, REST)
Our take
According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and now supplies energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.
Octopus further differentiates itself through its aspiration to make everything as easy as possible for consumers, from the simplicity of their bills and the fact that customers are not locked into a contract, so they can leave at any time, to offering customer service over email and social media at times that suit customers. It aims to make the eco‐friendly choice the easy choice, so all of its tariffs use 100% green electricity, while being cheaper than competitors' non-green tariffs.
Its continually creating innovative new products too. For example, Octopus Tracker, where prices change daily to guarantee you get the market rate; Agile, where the price changes every half hour to enable you to benefit from cheap electricity when the sun shines, the wind blows, and the networks are under-utilised. One of the current challenges the company faces is that its products are more complex than its competitors, given that it uses 1000x more data than traditional energy companies. Because of this, it's exploring ways to explain to customers exactly how their products work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2023
$800m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2022
$225m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Equity Option Scheme
- Pension Scheme: We'll pay 5%. You can decide what you contribute, starting from 3%
- Money Coach: You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach . They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
- Holidays: We're all grown ups, so we don't count your holidays here. We work hard and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course)
- Flexible working: We're passionate about a genuine work-life balance here and we don't pay people to watch a clock. Need to catch that school nativity or work from home? That's cool
- Free Breakfast + other stuff: ice lollies if you're lucky)! Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner
- Tech: We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
- Car Salary Sacrifice: Browse the wide selection of electric vehicles and get a sample quote under our workplace salary sacrifice scheme. If approved, the monthly leasing costs are taken directly from your gross salary each month meaning you're saving on paying some tax
- Cycle to Work Scheme: The Cycle to Work Scheme is a cost effective way to “buy” a bike up to a value of £2.5K, which hopefully is enough for a decent commuting bike, even an electric one. This extends to the cost of accessories and safety equipment as well as the bike
- Season Ticket Loan: Commuting to the office on the regs? If you travel more than twice a week, it’s worthwhile getting an annual ticket. With our Season Ticket Loan, you can spread out the cost over 10 months. It’s quick and easy to sort. Once approved and ordered, your season ticket will be posted to you within 5 days or so
- Maternity leave: 16 weeks full pay + 8 weeks half pay + 15 weeks statutory maternity pay
- Paternity leave: 12 weeks full pay
- Private Medical Insurance: Say goodbye to long waiting lists! For anyone who wants some additional peace of mind when it comes to their health, we offer Private Healthcare Insurance at different levels of cover. The monthly costs are taken directly from your gross salary and spread across 12 months. You even save on National Insurance
- Gym & Yoga: You can get up to 25% discount on gym memberships and we have 45 minute live yoga classes open to all Octopus staff twice a week!
- Headspace: Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available
- Eye Test: Free eye test vouchers for all colleagues who use Visual Display Units (VDU). Long spells of VDU work can often be visually demanding and can lead to tired eyes, discomfort, temporary short sightedness and headaches
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Greg Jackson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Adviser at Ashcombe Advisers for 9 years and a Non-Executive Director at Zopa for 7 years.
James Eddison
(CTO)Previously CEO at Claripoint for 7 years and CTO at Tangent Labs also for 7 years.
Stuart Jackson
(Co-Founder & CFO)Previously a Director of "Foundation" Business Unit at Barclaycard for 2 years and Chief of Staff, Secured Lending SBU at Barclays also for 2 years.
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Assistant, being promoted to Marketing Executive after 6 months and again to Junior Product and Marketing Manager after 7 months. After 8 months they became a full Product and Marketing Manager.
Joined as Senior Talent Partner, being promoted to Talent Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Talent Acquisition after 8 months.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Energy Group
- Unconscious Bias workshops for interviewers and hiring managers
- Octopus Energy Equality Foundation
- Partnership with the Saracens High School - inspiring future generations - https://www.saracens.com/powering-futures-together-saracens-high-school-octopus-energy/
- Octopus Energy Internships - https://octopus.energy/blog/ada-lovelace-tech-internship/
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