Analytics Manager, BatterySIMM, Boulder

About Ascend

Ascend Analytics’ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serve as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.

Your Impact at Ascend Analytics

We are seeking an experienced Analytics Manager to join our BatterySIMM team in Boulder, Colorado. You will be responsible for serving Ascends clients, leading Analysts and coordinating activities around Ascend's SaaS BatterySIMM platform.

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as the client-facing lead with SaaS clients
• Lead with competence in areas of energy analytics
• Perform quantitative analysis and assimilate complex information into readily understood reports and presentations
• Devise new approaches to represent results that provide support for decision analysis
• Adeptly handle client matters, even if difficult, quickly escalating as needed
• Ensure work product, releases and analytic initiatives are delivered in a timely fashion through task management and prioritization
• Go the extra mile to ensure Ascend meets its deadlines and ensure high-quality client-facing deliverables
• Identify and eliminate efficiency constraints by advising on opportunities for systemization and automation
• Develop analyst staff to their full potential and foster employee retention
• Exhibit servant leadership and mentorship toward analyst staff in concert with other managers
• Demonstrate high agility in response to shifting dynamics across the team and company priorities
• Advance client uses of Ascend's BatterySIMM and Market Intelligence platforms
• Track client utilization of Ascend support under agreement terms
• Provide clients with web-based software training
• Manage the progress of multiple projects simultaneously

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering, Economics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
• 4+ years' experience in US power markets or other energy industry consulting and/or SaaS software environment
• Talent in managing customer relationships
• Authentic, clear, and effective oral communication
• Demonstrable history or ability in mentorship and servant leadership; Experience guiding/overseeing the work of junior colleagues
• Eye for quality layout, design, presentation or work product in Microsoft applications
• Project management experience
• Expertise across the technical, economic, and policy aspects of energy
• Familiarity running complicated software or basic programming experience
• Experience holding independent responsibility for delivery of final work products
• Familiarity with programming techniques for data processing and analysis in any language and strong skills in Microsoft Excel
• Highly organized and able to balance competing priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree, preferably with a focus on Energy
• Experience performing independent research
• 2+ years managing 3+ persons
• Experience developing high performing teams
• Experience in continuous improvement initiatives

Compensation & Benefits: $130,000 - $180,000

Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. We offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Ascend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].