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Littleton, Colorado, United States
Onsite
Reports to: SVP of Product
Location: Onsite in Boulder or Littleton, CO
About Emporia Energy
Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app. With over 400,000 U.S. homes running Emporia’s energy management and EV charging hardware, we are now launching a national Third-Party Owned (TPO) home battery Virtual Power Plant — placing industrial-rated home batteries in residential homes to deliver power redundancy, utility cost savings, and grid peak demand services. By reducing energy waste and saving customers money, we’re helping create a healthier planet and a brighter future. For more information, visit emporiaenergy.com.
Mission, Vision and Values
Emporia was founded in 2018 with a clear purpose to revolutionize home energy, generate tangible customer savings, and accelerate the transition to a lower carbon future. We are striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant.
Role Overview
Emporia's DC bidirectional program pairs white-labeled power electronics from an inverter supplier with the Vehicle Integration Board, the piece Emporia designs in-house. The design is in-flight. It needs one clear owner to drive it through validation, certification, and launch: the supplier on one side, our own board development on the other.
Every Emporia hardware product moves through the same product development lifecycle (PDLC): Concept, Feasibility, EVT, DVT, PVT, Launch & Ramp, and Sustaining/EOL. This program is already well into design, so the weight of this role sits from EVT forward: program management, execution, and go-to-market rather than early concept work. The Product Lead is the DRI, the single-person decision maker for product definition, development, and launch. They do not necessarily do all the work, but they ensure the work gets done. Where this description says "own," it means accountable for the decision and the outcome, not doing the work alone. AI is what lets one person cover this much ground: draft the PRD and business case yourself, build initial concepts and designs, then spend your time on what AI cannot touch, like OEM and utility negotiations, certification, gate reviews, and unblocking the team.
You report to SVP Product and own the program from here through Launch & Ramp, then hand the DRI role to Operations and Sustaining, moving into a supporting role. Bidirectional charging only works when the vehicle, the home, and the utility all cooperate, so launch depends as much on automotive OEM approval and utility interconnection as on the hardware. We move quickly by being disciplined, not by skipping process. The same stage-gates and deliverables stay in place: PRD, PCD, business case, design reviews, launch readiness. AI should accelerate the work to be done and minimize and remove hand offs along the way.
Responsibilities
Definition & Business Case: Closing Out Concept
The concept is largely set. Your job here is to close the gaps and own the numbers.
Program Delivery: EVT, DVT & PVT
The center of the job. Own getting it built, validated, and certified on schedule.
Launch: Mass Production Ramp & Go-to-Market
Get the product to market and selling. This is the last phase you own outright.
Sustaining & EOL: Supporting Role
After ramp, Operations and Sustaining own the product. Your role here reduces.
Driving AI Adoption: Across Every Phase
Native AI-use runs through the whole job. Gates, deliverables, and approvals stay in place. The waiting between them goes away. Push that on the team, not just yourself.
Required Qualifications & Skills
Desired Qualifications & Skills
What We Offer
💰 Compensation: The expected base salary range is $145,000 - $190,000, plus stock options. The offered salary will depend on numerous factors, including but not limited to work experience, skills, and internal equity considerations. The base salary does not include benefits or other incentives.
🏥 Benefits:
📈 Career Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of home energy innovation.
Emporia Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We will make reasonable accommodations for any qualified applicant with a disability, provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation and that the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please let us know if you believe you require reasonable accommodation, or if you would like assistance to complete an application or to participate in an interview at the company.
New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.
Any communication to applicants relating to the Emporia Energy hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains emporiaenergy.com or no-reply@us.greenhouse-mail.io. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Emporia Energy you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact cybersecurity@emporiaenergy.com.
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