Energy Efficiency Analyst
Department: Product Management
Office: Headquarters (Arlington, VA)
Location: Arlington, VA
Description
Do you want to be a pioneer in energy efficiency?
Business Week named OPOWER, one of the Top 50 Tech start-ups to know about. Our company continues to expand and we are adding an Energy Efficiency Analyst to our Consumer Content team.
About the Job
As an Energy Efficiency Analyst, you will collaborate with the Manager of Consumer Content to innovate on what content we deliver to consumers, how best to present it within our products and how best to serve our clients. This is an ideal job for an early career analyst, who is looking to leverage existing research, analysis and writing experience and to take on significant ownership and responsibility in a rapidly growing startup. This opportunity will create immediate impact on our Home Energy Reports.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key internal expert on energy efficiency tips and concepts, fielding questions and conducting research on energy efficiency topics as necessary.
- Develop and target energy efficiency advice for our report and website products, including customizing our content for our clients; researching and writing energy efficiency tips; and calculating the costs, savings and other quantitative metrics associated with tips.
- Load, organize and manage content within our content repository tools, and test the content in our products. This work will require light coding (e.g. html). No prior experience required, however interest in mastering our web-based content management tool is important.
- Support the Manager of Consumer Content in managing client relations on content, including preparing meeting materials and client deliverables. Over time, a strong performer will have the opportunity to build direct relationships with certain clients.
- Help track key performance metrics on content and support research and analysis to improve content and targeting.
About you
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree and 1-3 years of professional experience
- You are good with numbers and words, with a solid academic career in both.
- You are consumer-minded and love thinking about what resonates best with consumers.
- You like achieving results in the most elegant, efficient way.
- You're passionate about helping to design and manage systems and processes to reduce complexity and eager to learn a content management tool. Experience with content management tools (e.g. Alfresco) a plus.
- You have a passion for energy efficiency. Experience or coursework on the topic is a plus.
- You like building relationships across teams within the organization as well as with our clients. Client-facing experience not essential, but a plus.
- You are a leader and a doer.
About the Company
Founded in June 2007, OPOWER creates innovative software products that promote energy efficiency by empowering residential consumers to make better decisions on their energy usage. Through a platform which delivers home energy reports, robust online tools, insights based on data analytics, and customer service tools, OPOWER is reshaping the outlook on home energy demand and achieving unprecedented energy savings across hundreds of thousands of households. The company is well funded and making big headlines as they stay on track to saving enough energy to power a city of 75,000 homes and to reaching one million households by the end of 2009.
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