Staff Data Product Manager

About Kevala

Kevala provides insight into the relationships between the consumption, production, distribution, and value of electricity by delivering data and analysis, and attendant consulting services via subscription and Application Programming Interface (API) licensing to the Kevala platform. Our tools improve electricity distribution grid planning, forecasting with a focus on distributed energy resources (including solar, electric vehicles, and battery storage), and decarbonization.

Our customers include utilities, regulators, community choice aggregators, third-party aggregators, solar developers, electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, and charging infrastructure developers.

If you enjoy collaborating with other professionals who believe in accelerating a clean energy future by making energy-related data meaningful, transparent, and broadly accessible, we encourage you to apply!

About the Role

Kevala is looking for a self-motivated Staff Data Product Manager with experience managing a data product roadmap in an early-stage, software, start-up environment. Kevala has the world’s largest energy industry dataset, incorporating 90% of U.S. above-ground grid infrastructure and 15% of address-specific consumption data, supporting a diverse set of industry-leading data products including energy forecasting, grid planning and renewables siting. The successful candidate will own the end-to-end lifecycle of Kevala’s data, driving the timely acquisition and publishing of new datasets into the Kevala platform through our emerging Data Management framework. This role will work cross-functionally with market-facing teams to develop solutions that will accelerate the development of the Kevala data architecture, including building APIs and services, that support end-user applications on the platform.

What you will be doing

The Staff Data Product Manager is responsible for the planning, execution, and governance of Kevala’s Data, to ensure the Platform provides a flexible, modular and durable foundation for Kevala’s analytics, ML and AI capabilities. The successful candidate will:

● Lead the end-to-end development of data products, from concept to deployment, across the entire Kevala data vertical

● Maintain data product goals, strategy, and roadmap

● Act as “air traffic controller” across Kevala data-related initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders across the company

● Translate product strategy and roadmap goals into requirements based on methodology requirements, commercial impact, complexity, and duration

● Drive and maintain data governance standards, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance

● Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to develop a roadmap of internal capabilities to lower time to value, increase margin and reuse of capabilities within the Kevala platform.

● Develop the engineering team’s capability to develop standalone offers as well as bespoke applications across one unified architecture

● Effectively and timely communicate internally and with clients, as appropriate, regarding data ingestion, framework, housing and transferring practices

What you need to succeed

● 8+ years in data product management, data architecture, or a related role. ● Proficiency in SQL

● Demonstrated experience working with a diverse range of technologies, frameworks, and architectures

● Strong understanding of data architecture, data governance and data quality principles ● Experience with Agile methodology and working in multidisciplinary teams
● Demonstrable experience of data driven decision making based on KPIs and metrics ● Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

● A growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity
● Ability to think strategically and make tough prioritization decisions

● Preferable experience with cloud data platforms (Google Cloud Platform is a plus) and SaaS products

● Preferable experience with technologies such as GIS, BigQuery, DBT, Airflow and Looker

● Preferable experience with energy data including AMI, SCADA, and distribution or transmission network models, and utility operating practices

● Familiarity with Data Vault Modeling and Enterprise data warehouse a plus

● Experience with MLOps / ModelOps is a plus

Why you’ll love this opportunity

● You will lead the development of Kevala data as a product, in our mission to own the data vertical for decarbonization.

● If you are passionate about creating leading data products and excited about maturing practices for a fast-growing startup.

● The opportunity to work with a platform that leverages publicly available data, modeled data, internally generated data, purchased data, and client-provided data to create a holistic view of all components related to the consumption, generation, and delivery of energy across the electric system.

● If you are excited about the possibilities of working with an unparalleled set of timeseries, geospatial, econometric, and relational data to radically decarbonize the global economy.

Location

Kevala is headquartered in San Francisco, but we embrace the virtual office and are continuing to grow our team across the United States.

Compensation

The total compensation for this opportunity includes a base salary range of $155,000 - $190,000 plus equity (stock options). This is our target compensation range and is subject to multiple factors including level, experience, and location. As you go through our interview process, our recruiter will work with you to identify a competitive base salary within the proposed range and combine it with an equity package that will support your excitement in joining Kevala.

Benefits

As a Kevalier, you will have access to a wide range of benefits including affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), a generous time-off policy, a physical wellness allowance, and professional development.

To apply, please visit https://www.kevala.com/careers

Kevala is an equal opportunity employer that believes a diverse team will not just lead to a better working environment, but will also help us create better products and services.

Kevala is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If any reasonable accommodation is needed in our process, please reach out to careers@kevala.com.