About our Company

Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. We are building a digital native power company operating at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Our mission is to accelerate our collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums. Our goal is to become one of the next-generation, digital-native, end-to-end global clean power companies that reshapes the energy industry.

New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We design our commercial strategies, operational approaches, and product suites so as to best leverage data-driven insights, automated workflows, ML-infused pipelines, and fully automated decision engines. These capabilities are enabled by our progressively modern software stack and engineering best practices, which in turn provide the scalable platform we need to put a serious dent in carbon emissions. We’re looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.

What we are looking for

Equilibrium is a highly collaborative and interdependent company. We are looking for a highly motivated and mission-driven Program Manager to join the Equilibrium Energy team. You will be working at the intersection of software development, energy, and advanced research with an extremely talented and ambitious team of product managers, software engineers, machine learning, forecasting, data and energy scientists and researchers. As a key member of the program management team, you will play an active role in developing and implementing processes and tools that structure and organize multi-disciplinary teams. You will help set and track company-level objectives, accelerating innovation through cutting-edge research and product development.

What you will do

Project Management

• Lead the planning, execution and delivery of technical programs
• Manage day-to-day responsibilities to keep the team organized by running meetings, tracking tickets and maintaining project plans
• Communicate project updates, status and interface with senior stakeholders
• Identify and mitigate risks and blockers
• Manage scope, resources and budget to deliver on time

Stakeholder Management

• Establish processes and tools to collaborate with all levels of the company including technical stakeholders, non-technical stakeholders, and senior leadership
• Act as the main point of contact for stakeholder requests
• Proactively identify and communicate program risks related to technical feasibility, research milestones, and product milestones
• Partner with Engineering, Science, Product, and Commercial to facilitate roadmap planning and prioritization

Accelerating Experimentation

• Collaborate with Product Management and Science leadership to implement opportunities to accelerate the pace of experimentation
• Automate workflows and streamlining processes to reduce friction
• Leverage tools to optimize research and experimentations efforts

The minimum qualifications you’ll need

• Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change
• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years in project/program management in a technical field.
• Experience leading projects with technical teams
• Proven success working with all levels of management
• Experience building and implementing processes from scratch
• Must be effective working in a fast-paced team environment and navigating ambiguity
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work independently and as part of a group
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical and research concepts to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrates creativity and independent thought when solving problems

Nice to have additional skills

• Experience working in energy markets, battery optimization or power systems
• Experience working with machine learning, scientific research or price forecasting teams
• Experience working in financial trading (e.g. equities trading), and quantitative analysis
• Advanced degree
• Experience working with fully remote teams
• Experience in developing platforms for internal processes
• Experience with tools; Jira, Notion, Slack, Google Workspace

Not sure this is the right role for you?

We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there’s a great chance we’ll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role.

What we offer

Equilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software & ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic & collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment.

Employee benefits include:

• Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package
• Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant
• Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule
• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London
• Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech

Equilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.