Product Manager - Energy Code

About Ekotrope

Ekotrope provides software solutions for energy-efficient building design and verification. We develop innovative tools that empower construction professionals to create sustainable and cost-effective buildings. Our mission is to empower people with technology and insights to drive informed decisions that move our built environment towards sustainability. Our company values are very important to us, and we are striving to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to help Ekotrope discover, analyze, evaluate, and capture new business and product opportunities that drive growth in the number of homes that utilize Ekotrope.

This candidate should have both external (customer-facing) and internal (dev-team facing) product management experience. The candidate must also have the experience and excitement to operate and innovate in an unstructured environment, build customer relationships, and identify new opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Identify, explore, evaluate, and oversee the development of new business/product opportunities for our core market. This involves working with customers to understand their needs, analyzing pricing and market sizes, and collaboratively building actionable tasks/tickets with the development team.
  • Define, scope, and oversee the discovery process and creation of MVPs
  • Nurture early adopter users of new products and features to bring MVPs to robust, mature products.
  • Enable the sales team to sell new products by helping them understand the customer needs and how the products solve those needs.
• Grow the number of homes that utilize Ekotrope for energy code permitting and compliance
• Enable revenue growth with new products and/or features.
• Maintain our stellar customer satisfaction across our core products

Requirements

Must-Have:

• Candidate must be excited about the Ekotrope mission, vision, and values
• Experience working directly with customers.
• Experience operating in a startup environment or similar unstructured environment requiring innovation, organization, and self-motivation.

Soft Requirements (must have at least 2 of the following):

• At least 3-years of professional product management experience
• Knowledge / Ability to learn the residential permitting and code compliance process and home construction topics
• Experience working with software development teams to turn customer use-cases into actionable development tickets.
• Experience leading a “discovery process,” i.e. exploring client needs, building and testing assumptions, and iterating to find product market fit.

The candidate will be expected to:

• Have strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Be highly organized and accountable, able to manage their tasks given high-level directives.
• Foster relationships with customers through formal and informal communication channels
• Work closely with developers and customers to bring useful, beautiful and powerful products to the market
• Consider tradeoffs between complexity and value
• Connect deeply with our customers and industry to internalize the perspective of our users
• Always be learning - internally and externally

Why Join Ekotrope

• Impact: Be part of a mission-driven company that is making a big impact on the environmental sustainability of homes throughout the USA. Ekotrope software is used to model more than 400,000 homes each year. That’s 1 in 4 of all new homes in the US.
• Culture: Work with a diverse, inclusive, talented and collaborative team that values creativity and ownership.
• Flexibility: Hybrid Boston HQ with remote options across several U.S. states.
• Compensation: we provide a combination of base salary, contingent bonus and stock options. Our strategy is to provide approximately median compensation for a given role and to try to attract and retain great people who value our impact and mission.
• Benefits:
• PTO package - vacation, floating holidays, company holidays and sick days
• Medical, dental, disability & life insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with matching program
• Subsidized Blue Bikes Membership and pre-tax MBTA passes
• Home office set up stipend

Ekotrope is an equal opportunity employer, and selects individuals best matched for the job based upon job-related qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, gender identity, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.