What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at FreeWire Technologies?
At FreeWire, we fundamentally change the way businesses and utilities electrify. We build battery-based energy storage systems that provide clean and quiet power anywhere it’s needed, reducing the cost and accelerating deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. FreeWire’s solutions are evolving from providing ultrafast EV charging services to a full suite of energy services to accelerate sustainable electrification and provide resiliency to customers and a distributed power source to utilities. FreeWire has secured major strategic investors from Fortune 100 companies and serves leading corporate, utility, and retail customers. The feedback on the Boost Charger, FreeWire’s DC fast charger, has been overwhelmingly positive as we electrify locations that would have been too expensive to power on using conventional charging solutions. Utilities are releasing RFPs with requests for battery backed solutions, their regulatory teams are including our technology as eligible for incentives, and they are seeking cost effective solutions as they electrify their fleets and provide utility owned charging solutions for the public.
FreeWire has deployed battery-integrated chargers with Fortune 100 companies, commercial customers, fleets, retail locations, and gas stations. In addition to its partnership with bp pulse, FreeWire and ampm, a bp subsidiary and convenience store chain with over 1,000 locations, have already deployed multiple public charging stations in the U.S. FreeWire’s regulatory affairs and policy team keeps customers up to date on federal, state, and utility incentive opportunities, which in some cases cover up to 80% of the cost of the charging station, and the company recently announced that the Boost Charger is Buy America compliant. Learn more at www.freewiretech.com and follow us @FreeWireTech.
Product Manager
Oakland, CA
FreeWire Technologies has an exciting opportunity to join the Product Management team and help the company execute on its product roadmap as it enters an exciting period of growth. With the commercial release of the Boost Charger in August 2020, the company is now growing rapidly to scale manufacturing capacity, and to expand its product offerings beyond DC Fast Charging to energy storage, grid services, and micro-grids. This role will serve as the vital link between Engineering and the Sales/Marketing teams. This is a great opportunity for an individual with product management experience who is passionate about impacting the movement towards a sustainable future.
Responsibilities:
Vision and Strategy
- Define and lead product initiatives that solve important problems for our clients, help them achieve their business goals, and drive increased value through the platform with particular focus on the web platform
- Evaluate potential product features to determine viability and value to the business based on user research and competitive analysis.
- Conduct specific analyses and help drive product management decisions based on the insights and analysis of features, make priority recommendations and provide actionable feedback to the engineering team where appropriate.
- Serve as internal point person for the web platform, collaborate with product management teammates, engineering, sales and marketing to integrate all features that impact the customer into the web platform
Ideation and Documentation
- Write detailed specifications and market requirement documents (MRDs) that effectively express and evangelize new products and features to the engineering team and other key stakeholders.
- Elicit, capture, analyze, refine, articulate and document feature requirements into detailed epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and software documentation; follow-through with engineering to deliver those features on schedule.
Data Analysis
- Be strongly data-driven in understanding product usage metrics, measuring success and failure of different features to adapt the product to further meet the needs of customers.
- Work with quantitative data and qualitative insights to make smart optimizations to existing products; use data and analytics to inform optimizations to our products and experiences.
Marketing and Communications
- Serve as technical representative on product features and functionality for Sales and Marketing teams, including participating in customer meetings as required.
- Act as an external representative with partners as needed
- Create and present briefs, presentations, webinars to customers and internally.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, Analytics or business-related field
- Master’s degree, such as MBA, is a plus
- 3 years of professional experience.
- Previous experience with software development, either as engineer or Product Manager/Owner
- Demonstrated examples of documenting product and feature requirements for engineering, and driving results through development, test and release
- Able to prioritize features and provide clear direction to engineering leadership
- Must be able to communicate clearly (written and verbal) to technical and non-technical personnel.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel (PPT, Excel, Word, etc.)
- Equally comfortable working in Google Suite (Slides, Docs, Google Sheets, etc.)
- Self-starter, willing to take initiative and dig into the details.
- Ability to distill complexity into simple, understandable concepts.
- A team player with ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Excited to work in a start-up environment.
- Ability to effectively plan and organize projects and manage priorities.
FreeWire offers competitive benefits, including:
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Dog Friendly
At FreeWire Technologies, we offer fair and equal opportunities to all our candidates and team members regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, disability status, parental status protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. FreeWire Technologies believes in hiring individuals only based on their qualifications and experiences that meet our business requirements to fill the positions.