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Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Company Name: OPower
Location: Arlington, VA
Profession: Product Management

Job Description:


Do you want to be a pioneer in energy efficiency? Business Week named OPOWER (Positive Energy), one of the Top 50 Tech start-ups to know about. Based in Arlington, VA, this rapid-growth company continues to expand their Product development team, currently hiring a new Senior Product Manager.


About the Job
If you have relevant and cutting-edge consumer website-focused product management experience, then you may be a great candidate for our Sr. Product Manager job opening!


As a product manager at OPOWER you will drive the development of new products and features designed to motivate and educate consumers to reduce their home energy use. We have an exciting and aggressive product roadmap that will enhance the impact of our energy efficiency programs and improve the customer experience. Our product managers take the lead in driving this agenda from ideation to launch, which means we're looking to hire someone who combines passion and experience in consumer product development with a strong ability to work closely with software development teams. This is an ideal job for a software product manager with 5+ years of experience who wants to be part of a rapidly growing startup, feel total ownership over their work, and work hard at achieving a dramatic success in a vibrant market.


Responsibilities
• Define the product strategy and roadmap for consumer energy efficiency websites and online tools
• Develop and prioritize product feature requirements
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure products are design with both flexibility and scalability
• Create functional and technical specification for the engineering team
• Leverage usability studies and consumer research to ensure products meet consumer needs
• Work closely with design team to create products that are highly functional and visually compelling


About You
• You have BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field
• You have minimum of 5 years experience in a consumer website product management position
• You have demonstrated success defining and launching new consumer websites
• You are passionate about building new consumer solutions that are elegant and functional
• You have strong technical orientation and ability to work well with engineers
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• You have great ability to prioritize and manage scope, and to keep projects on schedule
• "Love to get my hands dirty" is your middle name
• You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high



About the Company
Founded in June 2007, OPOWER creates innovative software products that promote energy efficiency by empowering residential consumers to make better decisions on their energy usage. Through a combination of home energy reports, carbon calculators, web applications, data analytics, and customer service tools, OPOWER is reshaping the outlook on home energy demand and achieving unprecedented energy savings across hundreds of thousands of households. The company is well funded and making big headlines as they stay on track to saving enough energy to power a city of 75,000 homes and to reaching one million households by the end of 2009.


 


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