Product Manager, Data Products

Full-time; Remote; Exempt

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

We are growing our team and seeking an entrepreneurial and technical product manager to join our product, design, engineering, and data science team. This position will be responsible for the data products that we are building to serve both our own consumer-facing software tools and the broader electrification ecosystem. This role is responsible for helping to craft our platform vision, and in the near term it will be responsible for our Incentives API, which powers Rewiring America’s incentives calculator, surfacing a comprehensive database of electrification incentives to support electrification. It will also be responsible for the data science model that backs our Personal Electrification Planner, estimating the upfront and ongoing costs and benefits of electrifying the fossil fuel machines across the United States. This role reports to the Head of Product.

What You’ll Do

You will be the product lead for our Incentives API and our home energy costs and benefits model, as well as future electrification data products that we choose to develop. As a PM, you will be responsible for defining and measuring success of these products, directing and conducting user research, and collaborating with internal experts and stakeholders to inform our plans. You will define the work and roadmap and lead any necessary pivots in plans based on whether the product is achieving its goals and meeting user needs.

You will also help define our API platform and open source strategy by evangelizing and collaborating with external stakeholders at non-profits, startups, and large companies in the electrification ecosystem. You will actively participate in collaborative technical projects that we lead or participate in to drive the collective work forward.

You will:

• Build deep knowledge of the electrification ecosystem and how we can accelerate market transformation by building products enabling it
• Collaborate closely with internal product, engineering, data science, policy, and research teams to understand how data products and insights can accelerate our internal roadmap and goals
• Synthesize those needs into a product strategy and prioritization framework with clear, measurable goals
• Collaborate closely with engineering on data standards and structures, technical specs, and internal and external API documentation
• Drive build/buy.partner decisions for data capabilities required for our work
• Cultivate a collaborative group of external partners who use our APIs and give us feedback to improve
• Shape and execute on an open source strategy that allows others to build on our work and shares the maintenance burden where possible
• Create clear success criteria, measure the results, learn and iterate

Requirements

The incoming Product Manager will be driven by a commitment to Rewiring America’s values, vision, and mission. Through their track record in product management, engineering, and other technical roles, the successful candidate embraces the idea that we can do big things, and demonstrates humility, curiosity, and a learner’s mindset. They recognize that the stakes of what we are trying to accomplish depend on a passionate, high-functioning, and reliable team. 

The Product Manager joins a team that operates with a sense of urgency and a track record of success across the fields of science, technology, business, policy, and politics. They add technical acumen and experience building and leading developer-facing products to the team.

The successful candidate demonstrates enthusiasm for making electrification easy, and models excellence and integrity in all they do. The selected candidate will also possess the following Core and Preferred qualifications and characteristics:

Core

• Strong commitment to the mission, policies and goals of Rewiring America.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in software product management, engineering management or another technical leadership role
• Strong technical aptitude and experience driving the direction for technical or developer-facing products like an API platform or machine learning model
• Great listening s