Product Manager (Location:San Francisco, in-person 4 days/week)

What is Verse?

Climatechange, policy pressures, and energy market volatility are driving companiesacross all industries to announce emissions reduction commitments. Despitethese commitments, direct renewable energy purchases are currently onlyaccessible to a small handful of the world’s largest companies. Verse wascreated to solve this problem.

TheRoleThe Product Manager will drive the product evolution of Verse’s Ariasoftware platform. Product development is an extremely collaborative effortbetween engineering, design, and customer-facing teams. You’ll be joining a smallteam of experts who have helped build and implement successful softwareproducts and clean energy programs at companies such as Stripe, Google, Fluence,SolarCity, and Tesla.

This role will work in an agile environment and focus on definingproduct requirements, ensuring quick iterations, testing, development ofsoftware solutions, and effective maintenance of and updates to softwaresolutions that meet strategic objectives. The Product Manager will ensure that Ariais user-friendly and aligns with customer needs, facilitating seamless dataintegration and robust decision support capabilities.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute product strategies and roadmaps,ensuring alignment with the company's vision and business goals.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing,sales, and customer success teams to deliver product enhancements and newfeatures on time.
• Gather and analyze feedback from Internal teams andother stakeholders to inform product decisions and prioritize features.
• Own the pipeline of requests from internal and externalstakeholders
• Define clear SaaS product metrics and goals, and reporton performance and insights to the leadership team.
• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure successful productlaunches and continuous improvement post-launch.
• Clearly specify and document product requirements,including user stories and acceptance criteria, to be implemented byengineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, orrelated field.
• 3-5 years in software product development within a startup/growthenvironment, with at least two years of experience specifically in productmanagement.
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills,including the ability to pivot quickly based on new information.
• The ability to parse complex data to ask engineers the right questions and make informeddecisions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,capable of working effectively with diverse teams.
• You’re familiar with agile development methodologies andexperience guiding software projects from conception to completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• You put the user first and are eager to build beautifulproducts that our customers will love
• You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful,whether that means writing a QA plan or tracking down the root cause of auser’s frustration.
• You have a demonstrated ability to execute with speedand accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
• You are passionate about continuous product improvement.
• You have a strong understanding of customer successmetrics in SaaS products.
• You think strategically but deliver on the details.
• Experience with clean energy technologies or procurementa plus.

Benefits

What makes Verse a great placeto work?

• We lead with empathy. Empathy for our teammates and our customers is central to whowe are. We lift each other up and strive to embody humility, selflessness, andkindness. We promote an emotionally aware attitude and culture by putting ourcolleagues and customers first. We respect the prior art and acknowledge thosewho have come before us. We never assume we know everything: every person hassomething to teach us.
• We are open, honest, andtransparent. Organizational andinstitutional trust is essential to tackling the world’s most challengingproblems. That trust is built on effective communication with our team, ourcustomers, and other stakeholders. We are always receptive to feedback on howwe could do better, and we strive to provide constructive recommendations thathelp others excel.
• We move with balance andprecision. Life is a delicate balancebetween the forces of creation, maintenance, and destruction. We understandthat each of these forces must be applied with diligence: When we act, we actcarefully and responsibly. Speed, hard work, and perseverance must be accompaniedby thoughtfulness and reflection.
• We are pursuing a labor oflove. We are passionate about renewable energytechnology, and we like to dream big. We are disrupting the largest and mostexpensive machine humanity has ever built – the electricity system. We believethe greatest impact we can have on the climate crisis is through buildingelegant solutions and exceptional products that delight our customers.

Employee Perks

• Competitive compensation and equity grant at ahigh-growth start up
• Comprehensive benefits package includingmedical, dental and vision insurance, and 401k
• Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
• Diverse and inclusive working environment

Verse is an equal opportunityemployer. All applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and compensationwithout regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability,sexual orientation, marital or familial status.