Hardware Product Lead - AI Builder - Home Energy Products

The posting, as Emporia Energy wrote it

Reports to: SVP, Product

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. With over 400,000 U.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. For more information, visit emporiaenergy.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.

Role Overview

Emporia's home energy products are already in hundreds of thousands of homes: our Level 2 EV chargers, the Vue Energy Monitor, and the Smart Plug. They earn revenue today, they sit in competitive categories, and they carry the install base everything else builds on. This role owns all three.

This is not a new-product job. The work is keeping a mature portfolio healthy, competitive, and profitable: field quality, cost, supply continuity, incremental revisions, and the eventual end-of-life call. The Product Lead is the DRI, the single-person decision maker for product definition, development, and launch. They do not necessarily do all the work, but they ensure the work gets done. Where this description says "own," it means accountable for the decision and the outcome, not doing the work alone. On this portfolio that means every change that ships, from a firmware release to a board revision to a price move. Operations and Sustaining run field service, RM
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$170,000 , plus stock options. The offered salary will depend on numerous factors, including but not limited to work experience, skills, and internal equity considerations. The base salary does not include benefits or other incentives.

🏥 Benefits

• 100% company-paid premiums for medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• 401(k)
• Employee stock option program
• Paid holidays plus unlimited PTO
• Discounts on Emporia products and partner offerings

📈 Career Growth : Be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of home energy innovation.

Emporia Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We will make reasonable accommodations for any qualified applicant with a disability, provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation and that the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please let us know if you believe you require reasonable accommodation, or if you would like assistance to complete an application or to participate in an interview at the company.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Any communication to applicants relating to the Emporia Energy hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains emporiaenergy.com or no-reply@us.greenhouse-mail.io. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Emporia Energy you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact cybersecurity@emporiaenergy.com.