Job Overview:
Pay Range: $120.09hr - $125.09hr
Requirement/Must Have:
- 5+ years of experience in BESS, DERs, distributed grid solutions, or related energy markets.
- Demonstrated experience with customer-sited or distributed battery solutions.
- Strong understanding of battery economics, value stacking, and deployment models.
- Experience working with electric utilities, utility customers, energy developers, aggregators, or DER service providers.
- Familiarity with wholesale and retail electricity markets.
- Experience conducting market research, customer Client, or product strategy work.
- Strong analytical, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to work in highly ambiguous, early-stage environments.
- Ability to work within a consensus-driven environment.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct interviews with a range of utility stakeholders, residential customers, vendors, developers, aggregators, and industry experts.
- Evaluate customer pain points and willingness to adopt battery-enabled solutions.
- Identify emerging market opportunities in DERs, VPPs, microgrids, and flexible capacity services.
- Develop and refine battery-related product/program concepts.
- Assess ownership, operational, and financing structures.
- Explore utility-owned, third-party-owned, and customer-owned deployment models.
- Support development of commercialization and scaling strategies.
- Analyze battery capabilities, performance constraints, and deployment considerations.
- Evaluate battery participation opportunities in CAISO, resource adequacy, demand flexibility, and other DER markets.
- Assess opportunities for value stacking across utility and customer use cases.
- Prepare materials for governing executive board members.
- Support development of business cases and investment recommendations.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and scaling considerations.
- Share early-stage solutions for feedback with potential target customers via customer interview.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with California energy markets and regulatory environments.
- Familiarity with CAISO, resource adequacy, demand response, and virtual power plant programs.
- Experience working with large commercial and industrial energy customers.
- Understanding of distribution planning, grid modernization, interconnection, or non-wires alternatives.
- Experience in venture building, product management, management consulting, innovation programs, or startup environments.
- Experience developing utility-scale or behind-the-meter battery products.
Skills:
- BESS.
- DERs.
- Distributed Energy Resources.
- Battery Energy Storage.
- CAISO.
- Resource Adequacy.
- Demand Flexibility.
- VPP.
- Virtual Power Plants.
- Market Client.
- Product Strategy.
- Stakeholder Engagement.
Qualification And Education:
- Deep expertise in retail battery energy storage solutions, distributed energy resources, and utility markets.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
