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Product Operations Analyst, Trading

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

At Equilibrium, we are building a company where collaborative and cross-functional innovation across deeply integrated and cohesive product and engineering teams drives superior product vision, design and execution. We are looking for a Product Operations Analyst who shares our vision that an energy company can be built from the ground up leveraging deep domain expertise alongside a commitment to data, ML, AI, and the automated workflows to autonomously act upon data-driven insights. Specifically, this candidate will own the product operations activities related to our financial energy trading business, Trading & Portfolio Management, as we expand to new geographies, products, and scale.

At Equilibrium, Product Operations includes all the design, execution, and support required to ensure our products perform at a high standard. In the near-term, you will work cross-functionally with business operators, engineers, and the broader product organization to execute our deeply-technical product operations processes to support the scaling of our financial energy trading business. The day-to-day work may involve analyzing recent operations data and providing product development partners with prioritization recommendations, running on-call incidents to ground to prevent them from happening again, serving as the subject matter expert for market operations and expansion, and more. In the medium-term, you will hone your expert mastery of the product operations processes to help us expand our solution reach into new geographies, markets, products and scale. Lastly, you will sharpen your communication proficiency to effectively convey and codify robust standards that ensure consistency at scale.

What you will do

Iterate upon, refine, and support our product operations efforts

Iterate and refine product key performance indicators and utilize performance assessment infrastructure to best inform product development efforts that improve sustainable operational performance in production
Work directly with the product management and engineering teams to design new capabilities, processes, and features to ensure operational success

Contribute to product strategy of Equilibrium’s Trading business program

Identify data and collateral required for constructing coherent and data-driven decisions to inform product strategy
Nurture relationships with key stakeholders and seek their input into product strategy
Build and maintain knowledge bases, disseminate insights, and serve as a domain-expert to promote product strategies
Identify growth opportunities into additional capabilities, use cases, markets, and geographies

Lead product analysis to improve capabilities and support growth

Compile stakeholder feedback and clearly document analytical approaches
Work with product management colleagues to systematize product analyses and adding new analytical templates to our product development and operations playbook
Continuously improve and extend our product analysis capabilities
Compile datasets that allow us to create realistic product prototypes

Oversee operational delivery of product features

Collect data and collateral directly useable to inform product delivery efforts
Define and oversee deployment of systems that track our product’s operational performance, including support for potential compliance activities within regulated environments
Continuously improve product delivery lead-times by emphasizing product operational readiness

Serve as a collaborative team member within the product organization, helping to fulfill our company mission and ambition

Embody the company’s and product organization’s principles via your day-to-day contributions
Contribute to improving the product organization’s value contribution, productivity, process improvement, and culture

The minimum qualifications you’ll need

BA/BS degree in a technical or business discipline with a heavy focus on analytics (i.e., Engineering, Economics, Statistics) or equivalent professional experience
Strong competency in an analytical / data toolkit (i.e., Advanced Excel, SQL, Databricks, Snowflake, data viz tools etc.)
A strong desire to learn about the energy industry
A commitment to traversing a steep technical learning curve, mastering a complex product operations ecosystem, and studying a sophisticated technology landscape
A passion for contributing to our company’s clean energy mission and people-first principles

Nice to have additional skills

2-5 years of experience in software product operations, top tier management consulting, business operations or other related role
2-5 years of experience in the energy industry, financial trading, energy trading experience a strong plus
Software and/or data science experience a strong plus
Experience working with a broad range of data analysis tools and coding languages (i.e., Coda, Python, SQL, Plotly/Dash, etc.)
Experience working effectively in a remote environment with a diverse set of stakeholders

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.

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