Do you want to change the world? we do, too.
The energy market is roughly $4 trillion globally, and solar penetration is less than 1%But just one hour of sunlight, if harnessed, could power the entire world for a yearWe have the opportunity to completely change the way energy is produced, distributed and consumed on a global scale, and we’re looking for talented, committed people to help us drive our growth and achieve our goals.
Sunpower is a global solar energy solutions company with a rich heritage of pioneering the best energy technologies in the worldOur solutions are unrivaled in terms of long-term reliability, efficiency and guaranteed performance, and our company is unmatched in terms of global reach and scaleThrough design, manufacturing, installation and ongoing maintenance and monitoring, sunpower provides its proprietary, world-record efficient solar technology to residential, commercial and utility customers worldwide.
Sunpower is changing the way our world is powered every day with a brilliant, passionate and driven team of more than 2,000 in north america and the philippinesIn an industry that is reshaping the world’s energy future, there’s no better place to be than sunpower.
We believe that our employees create our brand – with each project, each communication, each task completed and each interactionExperience is critical to sunpower in regards to not only our customers but also our employees and dealer partnersAs such, we strive to hire candidates that are service focusedThe experience we would expect the ideal person to deliver is:
Sunpower is seeking a high-energy software product manager for our next-generation financial services operations platform.
This role will be responsible for building upon sunpower’s financial services operations softwareCore responsibilities include participation in the creation, validation, and ongoing refinement of the overall software strategy, and leading the development of the software that will enable us to provide a world-class experience for our customers and funders.
The ideal candidate will be strong both commercially and technically, and comfortable engaging with a variety of stakeholders across our customers, partners, suppliers, and internal organizationThis person must have experience managing a large scale, complex platform, and be capable of driving business-level decisions at all levels of the organization.
The product manager must be comfortable working with users to identify pain points, designers to visualize new features, and engineers to transform stories into softwareHe or she must be adept at writing user stories, executing with engineers, and managing an agile backlog.
Essential duties include the following:
Manage the construction of the next generation of sunpower’s operations software
Work with the design team to develop user personas based on qualitative and quantitative data, user interviews, and user workshops
Work with the sunpower financial services operations team to identify software pain points
Generate product insights based on identified feature requests, pain points, and overall software strategy
Clearly articulate product decisions to users, the product team, internal stakeholders, and engineers
Manage project planning, sprint and release planning, demos and other scrum-related meetings
Create, maintain, prioritize, and sequence the product backlog based on business value or roi
Conduct post-launch user feedback sessions to support continuous software improvement
Provide ongoing tracking and analysis of key product competitors
Collaborate with marketing, brand, customer experience, and other software stakeholders to create a uniform software experience across sunpower software systems
Work alongside other product managers to deliver interdependent feature sets
Experience
Education requirements:
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum requirements:
Minimum two years of relevant experience
Demonstrated ability to work with, and coordinate, cross-functional teams
A proven ability to communicate effectively to a wide variety of clients and partners
Preferred requirements:
Experience working with agile software development teams
Experience in the solar industry
Experience in fintech
Ideal personal characteristics:
Strong communications skills – both verbal and written
Ability to absorb complex subjects and distill into an easily digestible form for other team members
Self-starter, able to thrive in a fast-paced and continually changing environment
Leadership skills and strong analytical skills
Other pertinent information
The candidate must be legally entitled to work and reside in the united states
Position can be located in san jose ca, richmond ca, austin tx or remote
Equal employment opportunity
The company is an equal employment opportunity employer and makes employment decisions, including but not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, training, and/or compensation, on the basis of meritEmployment decisions are based on an individual’s qualifications as they relate to the job under considerationThe company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, the actual sex of the individual, or the gender identity or gender expression), race, color, religion, including religious dress practices and religious grooming practices, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws, ordinances, or regulationsThe company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunitiesThis commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the company and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the company, including supervisors and co-workers.
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Sunpower corporation is an equal employment opportunity / affirmative action employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application proceduresIf you have any difficulty using our online system and you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following alternative email address to contact us about your interest in employment at sunpower corporation: jobs@sunpower.comPlease indicate in the subject that line of your email that you are requesting accommodationOnly candidates being considered for a position who require an accommodation will receive a follow-up response.
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Availability of affirmative action plan for review
Sunpower is a federal government contractorAs a part of the company’s obligations under law, it must develop a written affirmative action program (aap) for the disabled, recently separated veterans, armed forces service medal veterans, disabled veterans and active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans and for women and minorities as specified by lawNon-confidential and non-proprietary aspects of the aap are available for inspection by applicants and employees, consistent with applicable law, which will be made available during office hours by contacting the eeo officer.
