Staff Product Manager, Aurora Solar

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Senior and Expert level
Remote in Germany

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Aurora Solar

Software solutions for the solar product lifecycle

Open for applications

Aurora Solar

Software solutions for the solar product lifecycle

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseEnergySustainabilitySaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Germany

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseEnergySustainabilitySaaS

Company mission

Aurora's mission is to help create a more sustainable future by pioneering software for powering the world's best solar companies.

Role

Who you are

  • Leadership: able to set the direction, inspire the team, and make key decisions to drive the company forward
  • Experience: 7+ years of product management experience with a track record of achieving results through Product Management leadership at the company level, especially with relevant experience driving product expansion into new markets
  • Big Thinking: to define, align, and evangelize a product vision and strategy
  • Collaboration: a reliable and valued member of the team to encourage and enable others to succeed
  • Emotional intelligence: listens, appreciates, and promotes team members’ perspectives, goals, and opportunities
  • User focus: passionate about creating the best product solutions for your users
  • Systems thinking: able to dissect complex systems, workflows, and multiple user personas to create the best solutions within the surrounding context
  • Software development expertise: able to identify and act on opportunities to improve agile software development teams
  • Rigor: asks hard questions, validates their assumptions, and guides the way to achieving goals
  • Outcome-orientation: focuses on business results, not output
  • Data-driven: able to evaluate data from multiple sources across the organization, and use data to inform key decisions. Surfaces and evangelizes progress toward key metrics
  • Communication: able to clearly articulate ideas, concerns, and opportunities
  • As needed, up to 15-20% of international travel (Central Europe)

Desirable

  • Technical degree or background
  • MBA or relevant business-wide experience
  • Proficient or fluent in German and other European languages

What the job involves

  • Aurora Solar seeks mindful and strategic product managers passionate about delivering simple, useful, and unique solutions to intricate challenges
  • Our product managers embody a customer-centric approach, dedicated to integrating the voice of our customers into every aspect of our work and empowering our organization to overcome the most significant obstacles our customers face
  • This role will focus on the EU market to ensure product alignment and adaptability to meet market-specific cultural and language requirements
  • Additionally, the role requires close attention to political and economic influences within the solar industry, analyzing their potential impact on the product, and making appropriate adjustments
  • The responsibilities include synthesizing various information from the region, such as data, user research, customer interactions, and internal stakeholder perspectives
  • The information will be used to identify and prioritize regional problem areas, ensuring a targeted approach to addressing challenges and driving product innovation
  • Set a compelling long-term vision to drive growth through EU expansion
  • Set a strategy to achieve that vision that is coherent with the company mission, the larger product and business strategy, the competitive landscape, and market trends
  • Understand the culture and local market to influence the product strategy
  • Meet regularly with our executive-level team members across departments to align a strategy, priorities, and execution plan
  • Work closely with peers in Product Management, Product Design, Engineering, and GTM to align on strategy, resources, priorities, and roadmaps
  • Work collaboratively with all our product development teams to plan and execute a roadmap that drives growth in international markets
  • Build a deep understanding of our entire suite of products, how we serve customer needs today, and what ways we can extend our products to fit new market needs
  • Meet with customers, partners, vendors, and industry leaders to build an understanding of product opportunities in new markets
  • Conduct hands-on research with customers to identify user needs and test solutions
  • Perform industry & competitive landscape research to define the strategic context for expansion into international markets
  • Define the top product priorities for driving international growth, set clear & measurable goals, and track progress toward objectives & key results
  • Accelerate our international growth by supporting product development teams and removing obstacles

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Aurora Solar is a SaaS company helping solar sales companies remotely assess and manage solar installation projects. Solar energy is becoming both a more attractive and more financially viable path for large and smaller scale projects, as prices drop and eco-consciousness rises.

There's considerable market opportunity, with the solar installation industry expected to grow significantly over the next decade, and Aurora Solar is enabling these installations. Aurora wisely offers products that contribute all along the supply chain of solar developments; such as solar sales, engineering design, and automated operations. It has also delivered AI-enabled solutions aimed at streamlining residential solar lead generation, project design, and sales processes.

Aurora Solar has seen significant investment that has allowed it to operate at the front of the sector as it develops, and in 2022 reached the milestone of generating its 10 millionth solar roof design. It has been working to develop new partnerships and integrations, such as with Dividend, Mosaic, and Sungage Financial, to further advance its goal of accelerating solar adoption. In 2024 it was reported that Chinese company Norinco International intended to buy a majority share in Aurora after the latter began developing projects in Bosnia. Regardless of whether the deal occurs, the attention indicates a company well-equipped to facilitate a solar future.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

51% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2022

$200m

SERIES D

May 2021

$250m

SERIES C

Total funding: $520.2m

Company benefits

  • Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision plans are 100% covered.
  • Paid Time Off: 21 Days of vacation is just our starting point.
  • Fully Remote: We are a remote first team with office options too.
  • Parental Leave: 14 weeks of parental leave at 100% base salary.
  • Wellness Benefits: We have monthly wellness classes and workshops.
  • WFH Stipends: $500 home office stipends, $300/mo for hybrid work, and more.

Company values

  • Build What Matters: Build because you should, not because you can. And when you do, build it well.
  • Challenge Assumptions: Don’t take things for granted and challenge assumptions—including your own.
  • Outcome Over Ego: Evaluate every idea by its merits, and pursue the best course of action.
  • Power Our Customers: We make our customers more productive in their jobs, understanding that doing so adds value to society.
  • Stay Curious, Stay Ahead: Keep asking questions and keep challenging yourself. We know we can always do better, and we strive to do so every day.
  • We’re In This Together: We value our teammates and the different perspectives they bring.

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Samuel Adeyemo

(Boardmember)

Spent 7 years at JPMorgan, and worked as President of Vituo Technologies.

Co-Founder and former Chairman of e.quinox, and a founding member of BBOXX.

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