Director of Product Management, Battery Storage

The Sunrun Product Management team plays a critical role in our company’s success by collectively owning and evolving our industry leading solar and storage products. As the Director of Product Management for Battery Storage, you will lead a team of Product Managers, and influence a broad set of stakeholders inside and outside of Sunrun, to advance and scale our battery storage offering. 

To do so, you will need to coalesce our company around a battery storage strategy and roadmap; evangelize, influence and lead the continuous improvement of Sunrun’s battery storage capabilities across the company; and spearhead a product team to execute against a broad set of initiatives to take our battery storage offering to the next level, including negotiating partnerships with battery storage vendors.

The Director of Product Management role for Battery Storage is among the most rigorous and rewarding jobs at Sunrun. We are looking for a highly talented and driven individual who is excited to take on this challenge.

Responsibilities:

• Own our battery product end-to-end, from strategy to execution, and make this product the best in the industry, improving value for Sunrun and our customers
• Develop and manage battery roadmap to drive company-wide and battery-specific OKRs
• Actively develop the skills and capabilities of our battery product team, and contribute to the advancement of our product capabilities and culture at Sunrun 
• Lead negotiations with battery vendors to ensure that we enable the right hardware solution set for the market
• Drive new product launches in collaboration with a wide range of functional groups
• Diligently manage products using metrics-driven approach and continuously improve on key metrics
• Evangelize products, strategy and roadmap with various functional groups across Sunrun (particularly with sales) and drive excitement
• Ensure messaging of key product features, processes, expectations, performance, etc. is accurate, clear, and delivered consistently across departments
• Stay up to date on changes to our industry and business processes, identify impact of changes on all processes, materials, and messaging, and work with departments to ensure changes are absorbed

Qualifications:

• Leadership: inspires trust and confidence with team and cross-functional peers, drives the organization to achieve the right outcomes in the right way, builds a winning, human-centered culture
• Strategic Executor: sees and evangelizes the big picture, but is disciplined in rationalizing our ambitious goals with realities of prioritization and day-to-day execution
• High Standards: expects personal and team performance to be nothing short of the best, actively develops teams to ensure they achieve their full potential
• Communication: listens for meaning, translates concepts effectively and is articulate with both verbal and written communication; can command a room full of business leaders and drive outcomes
• Customer Obsession: has high degree of customer empathy and drive to understand customers; uses insight to guide product priorities
• Product and business judgment: has the judgment to prioritize best product improvements and deliver great end to end customer experience based on customer and market need, organizational limitations and business environment
• Negotiation: able to successfully negotiate complex agreements involving commercial and technical components
• Attention to detail: pays attention to the specifics, in terms of process, customer experience or detailed metrics to deliver on product outcome
• Adaptability: adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions; anticipates and copes effectively with the complexity of change

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Ability to perform normal office duties.
• Ability to operate office equipment including computers and determine accuracy of work.
• Ability to interact and participate in meetings.

Sunrun is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging drives our ability to build diverse teams and develop inclusive work environments. At Sunrun, we believe that empowering people and valuing their differences will help us create a planet run by the sun for everyone.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity without consideration of race, color, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.