Staff Product Manager, 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.

Product Manager, Trading

What we are looking for

Equilibrium is a highly collaborative and interdependent company. We are looking for a Product Manager to support our Trading business. You will be working with an extremely talented and ambitious team of Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Energy Scientists. As a member of the product management team, you will play an active role in contributing to our product strategy, discovering and building software and algorithms that have impact, which in turn foster a virtuous cycle of learning, innovation, and growth.

What you will do

1. Contribute to Product Management for our Trading business by building and maturing products that support key business activities:
   

• Trading strategy identification and evolution, including guiding the entry into new geographies and new market instruments.
• Algorithmic and autonomous trading execution.
• Continuous performance assessment, validating the efficacy of our approach to inform future enhancements.

• Collect data and collateral directly usable for constructing coherent and data-driven decisions for Product Strategy.
• Monitor stakeholder relationships and seek their input into product strategy.
• Assist with building and maintaining product roadmap, disseminating collateral.

• Compile Stakeholder feedback and clearly document product requirements.
• Partner with product leaders to facilitate best-in-class product discovery processes.
• Work with product partners to templatize product discovery processes and add them to our collective product discovery playbook.
• Seek-out and collect feedback and solution ways to iteratively improve our product discovery playbook over time.
• Hunt down and compile datasets that allow us to "stub out" realistic prototypes and mock-ups.

• Assist with backlog prioritization and sprint planning processes.
• Catalog engineer's evaluation of design trade-offs for solutions.
• Track and ideate ways to improve product success metrics.

The minimum qualifications you'll need

• Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 2-5 years of professional experience.
• Desire to work cross-functionally with technical teams, managing diverse perspectives.
• Comfort working with remote teams across different time zones.
• Experience building and implementing new processes.
• 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.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills required.
• Demonstrates creativity and independent thought when solving problems.
• Ability to learn quickly as it relates to power markets, the energy industry, etc.

Nice to have additional skills

• Experience with wholesale power markets.
• Experience with financial trading or as a quant trader.
• Experience with quantitative science, predictive/ML science, optimization and operations research.
• Experience with coding and robust data analysis.
• Experience working with software engineering, data science, and scientific research teams.
• Experience with integrating third-party software as part of a broader solution.
• Prior software product management experience.
• BS/MS in a technical or quantitative field (eg. CS, Econ, Math, Physics, etc.)

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.