Technical Product Specialist

Podero background

Podero is a fully funded 12people seedstage startup currently growing to 20 people.

At Podero youll have a great support system around you. Our founders Chris and Moritz are both engineers and understand the intricacies of technical product decisions. Sebastian our head of engineering has over 20 years of experience and is known for giving nonopinionated advice. Our team of engineers has worked on electricity and advertisement trading heating system optimization supply chain predictions autonomous driving oilrig steering payment software and much more.

We started Podero after advising 20 apartment buildings to switch from oil & gas heating to heat pumps. We realized we could significantly reduce consumer energy costs by building software to steer electrical devices according to electricity markets. Since cheap power prices correlate with lower carbon emissions we also measurably reduce the electricitys CO2 intensity when saving consumers money. Theoretically we could reduce 4.4% of all carbon emissions if rolled out on a global scale.

Podero is based in Vienna Austria and serves customers in DACH and Scandinavia.

Summary of the role

Were looking for a missiondriven ambitious and highperforming builder to join us for the ride. We care about your ability to deliver great work and to be bestinclass in your specialism. We dont expect you to be an expert in every subject right away as we work at the intersection of several disciplines. We do however expect that you are eager to learn and able to find great solutions to challenging problems.

As a Technical Product Specialist at Podero you are both an Engineer and a Business Analyst.

As a Business Analyst youll work closely with Poderos Head of Product to support in the definition of the technical aspects of our epics and user stories supporting the engineering team in the understanding of the technical customer needs. You are a storyteller and communicator that can bridge the gap between our customers highly specialized trading or marketing department and the engineering team. Youre not necessarily a designer but can draw up a wireframe of a new UI feature in Figma. You attend customer calls as well as internal agile rituals.

As an Engineer you will develop a deep understanding of how heat pumps EV chargers and PV inverters work and are constantly on the lookout for new applications of our technology. You are able to explain the function of these devices to customers and our engineering team. You know your way around basic equations in Physics (PVI but not E mc^2) and can work from first principles. You have a very good understanding of the energy industry and how the different energy markets operate. You know how to use monitoring tools analyze data with tools like Grafana and generate reports for customers during pilot phases. You support the engineering team in the definition of the REST API contracts that our customers use to interact with our Platform and identify bugs and potential new features.

Logistics Remote or Hybrid in Vienna

Work style Lots of responsibility hard work fastpaced earlystage startup work.

Impact Remove 4.4% of global CO2 emissions.

Choosing us You can work at any company you want but choose to work with us because you want to be part of our mission.

With your 5 or more years of experience building cloud applications you can contribute with:

Agile product management

Deep knowledge about energy markets

Technical knowledge about household devices such as heat pumps and PV inverters

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

User story mapping

Basic UI design/wireframing

Tasks

Helping to refine our Product roadmap and issue backlog

Collaborating with our engineers to design and improve an API framework for our customers to efficiently interact with our software consumer and device data

Working with regulators TSOs (grid operators) and partners to make trading household device flexibility a reality

Incident management with customers

Regular calls with different customer departments (Marketing IT Trading) and supporting them in rolling out our product

Researching regulations challenges and new opportunities for our product in different countries

Creating documentation for our customers

User Story Mapping Domain Storytelling Event Storming

The air you will breathe

In Podero you will hear eat and even breathe those concepts and tools:

• Brainstorming and Event Storming around algorithms and steering methods
• Technical discussions about heat pumps EV chargers and PV inverters
• IoT (Internet of Things)
• Python and REST APIs
• Data science
• Scrum and eXtreme Programming
• ATDD TDD and BDD development

Requirements

Technology:

You actively learn and adopt the technology and tools defined by the team

You are the goto person for one or more technologies and take initiative to learn new ones

You research create proofs of concept and introduce new technologies to the team

You have very deep knowledge about the whole technology stack of the system

Power skills:

You quickly learn from others and consistently step up when it is required

You proactively support other team members and help them to be successful

Impact:

You listen and understand the user needs (user stories)

You support in customer calls and ask for the customers feedback

You proactively contact customers to define and create new user stories

Initiative:
You correctly apply the companys approaches

You contribute to enhancing the companys approaches

You support the definition of the company approaches

Pragmatism:
You understand how to bring the value to the customer

You challenge the split of product increments

You can split value into product increments

You define product increments that bring value to the customer

Communication:
You excel at structuring your thoughts in verbal and written form (English)

Domain knowledge:
You have a very good understanding of electricity engineering physics and climate science

Benefits

In addition to a great team and an exciting mission we offer:

A competitive salary

Employee stock options

25 days of annual leave

Possibility to work remotely or in our office in Vienna

Snacks coffee and fruit at the office

We accept applications from people from any background and are striving to create a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We cant wait to hear from you!

Trajectory for the role Career growth

Podero is an ambitious startup. We encourage you in your and our growth with a welldefined career path that will allow you to increase your knowledge and your power skills.

Together with your expectations and Poderos necessities we will define the evolution of your career and will reevaluate that periodically.

Based on your interests there are 3 different paths you can pursue: you can develop further as a great Product Specialist or branch off in the direction of Product Manager or Engineering Manager.