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Chief Product & Technology Officer

Nira Energy · Remote - USA · Remote

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About Nira Energy

Nira helps renewable developers find the most profitable interconnection points on the electrical grid. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This role will sit parallel to our co-founder and Chief Transmission Officer, Andrew, who is one of the foremost transmission planners in the industry. Andrew will be responsible for high level product vision and will serve as our SME on where the industry is heading. The CPTO will be responsible for turning that vision into a sequenced roadmap and leading the team responsible for building those products.

What they're looking for

  • Ability and interest in learning a highly niche, complex domain fast. Transmisison planning is incredibly intricate and becoming fluent in the language of “transmission” is critical to success in the role
  • Low ego and mission driven. Your energized by the mission of the company and by building a team, motivating them, and partnering with world class founders
  • Excellent communication and people leadership skills
More about this role
  • Nira's mission is to help convert the US power grid to be 100% fossil-free.
  • We are profitable!
  • Nira is a software platform that helps renewable energy developers find the cheapest points on the grid to connect.
  • We focus on estimating the cost to interconnect with the electrical grid (aka the Interconnection Process). Depending on where developers connect, they may be on the hook to pay millions of dollars to upgrade power lines, substations etc.

About The Company

  • Our mission is to convert the US power grid to be 100% fossil-free and do our part in combating climate change
  • The electric grid is one of the largest bottlenecks standing between us and a clean energy future. Our software helps transmission engineers plan the grid in a faster, more economic, and more reliable manner
  • We are the market leader in tranmission software and are currently used by >100 of the most sophisticated engineering teams in the country
  • We are on a path to 5x’ing our revenue as we continue to rapidly scale with both our existing customers and into new markets
  • We’ve been profitable since inception and have a highly unique financial profile. We aren’t subject to the traditional VC funding...

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