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Do you have experience helping utilities develop a portfolio of programs for energy efficiency, demand response, or building electrification? Are you passionate about helping utilities achieve their decarbonization goals? Do you track the latest trends in regulatory policy affecting utility clean energy programs and portfolios?

We’re looking for a client-facing subject-matter expert with experience in providing actionable recommendations to utilities. Someone who can make complex analysis actionable and clear. We expect this person to act as an industry-facing expert on how utilities can solve problems related to resource adequacy, load flexibility, and energy savings in a dynamic regulatory and political environment. We’d like you to jump in on day one to support junior researchers, solve real-world problems for our utility clients through written reports and live presentations, and lead DSM-focused, client-facing projects. If you have deep knowledge of the utility industry, experience with energy efficiency and demand-response programs, and excellent analytical and communication skills, we’d love to talk with you!

The research manager role serves as the business domain expert for, sets the direction of, and manages the entire product lifecycle for the E Source demand-side management (DSM) research service. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be the face of E Source’s demand-side management offerings by aligning our products and content to meet the needs of our utility clients. This is a unique opportunity at the center of a major energy industry transformation, helping utilities evolve and advance their portfolios of DSM programs.

E Source provides predictive data science, research and advisory, and solution services to help utilities make decisions that benefit their customers, their bottom line, and our planet.

What you’ll do

• Serve as our in-house expert on electric and gas DSM programs by answering on-demand client research requests and producing written perspectives for the industry.
• Keep track of current and upcoming utility best practices related to DSM portfolios.
• Create clear, concise, data-driven, and action-oriented content for topically focused reports, articles, technical briefs, and webinars.
• Mentor and train junior researchers on utility market needs, how utilities are changing, and new DSM program and regulatory strategies to address these needs. 
• Provide sanity checks and a second set of eyes on numbers, analysis, and conclusions.
• Lead the agenda creation for large in-person events, host online webinars, and conduct client advisory calls in the DSM topical area.
• Set the annual research agenda and maintain the priorities for agile product delivery in a matrixed environment.
• Develop and implement new ideas that improve our DSM product health in alignment with business goals.
• Understand macro and micro industry trends and their impact on the product(s) you oversee.
• Represent client needs in the creation of deliverables. Create and leverage user stories to clearly define user needs and expectations.
• Visit clients at their offices and attend industry conferences as a speaker and product representative.
• Work with sales and marketing teams on go-to-market plans.

What will make you a good fit

• Demonstrated expertise with the regulatory principles that govern energy-efficiency and demand-response programs.
• Knowledge about how utilities plan, design, implement, and evaluate DSM and electrification programs and an understanding of the key challenges they face in doing so.
• Prior experience making recommendations to utilities about advancing their customer energy solutions portfolios.
• Demonstrated ability to present technical analysis in a clear manner for your audience.
• Strategic, entrepreneurial mindset about how to make E Source’s offerings match clients’ needs.
• Exceptional writing, verbal, and analytical skills; E Source differentiates itself through our readable, clear, concise, and actionable reports and presentations.
• Humility and a collaborative attitude—you know there are things you don't know, and that energizes you; you work well in a team environment; you proactively seek support, advice, and guidance from others; and you’re happy to support your colleagues.
• Rigor and discipline—you manage your time well and your coworkers can count on you to do what you say you’ll do.
• Creativity and openness—you aren't afraid to share your ideas for how we might do things differently.

A little about E Source

Utilities across the US and Canada face the same fundamental, day-to-day challenges: to ensure reliable service for every customer while maintaining and modernizing aging distribution networks and meeting regulatory requirements—all while keeping rates affordable. At the same time, climate change has created a common, universal call to action: to reduce our carbon impact, improve our environment, and ensure the prosperity of future generations.

At E Source, we’re dedicated to helping every utility become a Sustainable Utility. That means doing the hard work it takes to achieve goals that often seem at odds with one another:

• Environmental responsibility: Decarbonizing operations, reducing emissions, eliminating water leaks, and finding efficiencies
• Reliability: Providing safe, continuous, and consistent service in the face of increasing volatility caused by climate change, including extreme weather, drought, and fire
• Equity: Making services and programs truly available to all, especially low- and moderate-income residential customers and small and midsize businesses who are often disproportionately impacted by societal events
• Financial stability: Ensuring a bottom line that affords capital and operational expenditures while enabling innovation and giving back to our communities

E Source blends industry-leading research, predictive data science, and solution services to help utilities make better decisions to serve their customers, their bottom line, and our planet. With a commitment to practical innovation, we use more than three decades of utility-focused experience and our unique solution set to help our clients become a Sustainable Utility.

Benefits

• We offer excellent insurance packages, including medical, dental, and vision plans; company-paid life insurance; company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; and medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans.
• We provide a flexible time off (FTO) program; E Source employees can take as many paid days off per year as they need, with manager approval, while fulfilling their work obligations and ensuring proper coverage of their responsibilities.
• We offer flexible schedules, flexible work locations, and a paid parental leave benefit.
• We provide a 401(k)/RRSP plan with a 3% employer match.

The budgeted salary for this position is $90,000 to $120,000 USD + 8% annual bonus. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience.

This person can work 100% remote, but preference will be given for a hybrid schedule from of our physical office located in Boulder, Colorado.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Employees of E Source are encouraged to apply. To foster a positive work environment and company culture, we support our employees in their career growth at E Source. Employees who are interested in similar job opportunities in the future should visit the E Source careers page for a listing of all open positions and contact Human Resources to express interest.

We contact applicants directly via email using only our designated company email addresses with the domain of @esource.com. Please do not provide personal information to anyone over email and be wary of other accounts impersonating businesses.

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