Senior Product Manager, Grid Services

Reports to: VP of Product Location: Onsite in Littleton or Boulder, CO About Emporia Energy Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app.

S. homes running Emporia’s energy management and EV charging hardware, we are now launching a national Third-Party Owned (TPO) home battery Virtual Power Plant — placing industrial-rated home batteries in residential homes to deliver power redundancy, utility cost savings, and grid peak demand services. By reducing energy waste and saving customers money, we’re helping create a healthier planet and a brighter future.

com. Mission, Vision and Values Emporia was founded in 2018 with a clear purpose to revolutionize home energy, generate tangible customer savings, and accelerate the transition to a lower carbon future. We are striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant.

Customers First : We deliver exceptional service with empathy and responsiveness, building lasting trust in every interaction. Own the Outcome : We think like owners, taking responsibility for results and holding ourselves and each other accountable. Win Together : We succeed together through honesty, humility and humanity.

Grit Gets it Done : We work hard, stay passionate, and persevere through challenges. Better Every Day : We challenge the status quo, take smart risks and aim to improve 1% every day.

About The Role

Two time horizons, one role. Near-term, you are the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for our active grid services programs — Xcel AVPP, MassCPS, CT ESS, Efficiency Maine, and ERCOT retail energy.

Requirements

for each. You are the person Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal come to when they need to know exactly what a program requires — and you know the answer because you read the tariff and built the model yourself. Y ou know every detail, the enrollment terms, performance thresholds, penalty structures, and settlement mechanics for each program .

Longer-term, you are building the pipeline of what comes next: evaluating new utility programs, identifying new market entry opportunities, and developing Emporia’s progression into new markets and roles. The role requires the technical depth to engage utilities as a credible program counterparty and the strategic judgment to know which programs to pursue and in what order, then working across the business to develop the technology and systems we need to deliver value in those programs. You know how the markets and utilities work and own the strategic path for growth and expansion.

What You’ll Own Active Program DRI Xcel AVPP (CO): Own aggregator qualification and registration in the AVPP program. Own performance against the 80% adjusted performance threshold (2x penalty) and 40% floor (removal). Define the customer revenue-share model.

CT ESS (CT): Active pilot with first installs targeting July 2026.

Understand Eversource/UI interconnection constraints and own the economics decisions. MassCPS Direct Aggregation (MA): Own the transition from EnergyHub→Leap to direct MassCEC registration.