Sr. Product Manager, Residential Energy Products

Tesla Motors • Full-time • Palo Alto, California, United States • 4w ago

Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Residential energy products are a critical component of this mission enabling customers to generate, store, and consume sustainable energy to power their lives. Energy at Tesla is a rapidly growing part of the overall business with hardware products like Powerwall, PV Inverter, and Wall Connector, as well as software products such as Tesla Electric and Virtual Power Plants, all providing a seamless clean energy experience for customers.
We are seeking someone who is hardworking and passionate about solving the climate problem. In this role you'll be expected to leverage your thorough electrical, mechanical, and software engineering understanding, as well as knowledge of the global home energy market to guide our hardware and software product roadmap. Additionally, you will own product messaging and strategic content creation, identifying key product advantages and selling propositions to create effective product content, used by our marketing teams. This role requires collaboration internally across engineering and business operations, as well as externally with partners and end customers, to ensure the successful development and sustained improvement of our products.

Responsibilities

Be the voice of the customer, installer, support agent throughout product development and ensure that our product roadmap is delivering maximum user value

Write product requirements from first principles to guide engineering development and ensure customer delight, simplicity, and market capture

Work with engineering through technical design decisions and tradeoffs, ensuring the customer and installer requirements are met

Conduct fleet, market, and competitor analysis, as well as end user interviews, to foster data driven, customer centric product decision making

Define key success metrics for features and establish analytics to track adoption and surface issues

Create effective and engaging product marketing content such as technical white papers, sales materials and web content, educating our different customer types on product value propositions, product functionality, reliability and competitive edge

Translate detailed engineering specifications and performance data into digestible content that can be used by our marketing team to create targeted messaging campaigns

Communicate clearly to senior leadership on key timeline risks and complex product tradeoffs, enabling teams to make the right decisions quickly

Requirements

Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
Strong knowledge of global energy markets and experience working directly with engineering, sales, and business development teams

Direct experience with solar, energy storage, EV charging, electrical concepts, and home construction

Experience and comfort working with large datasets and ability to present complex problems and solutions simply and clearly to an executive audience drive decision making

A relentless drive to make things happen, without accepting the status quo

Ability to operate independently, bringing solutions and prioritization to complex problems

Strong attention to detail and ability to manage simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
Tesla Babies program
Commuter benefits
Employee discounts and perks program
- Expected Compensation
  
  $108,000 - $228,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits
  
  Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.