Grid Services Strategic Technical Product Lead

Ever since we started in 2007, Sunrun has been at the forefront of connecting people to the cleanest energy on Earth. It's why we've become the #1 home solar and battery company in America. Sunrun is on a mission to change how the world interacts with energy, prioritizing employee development, well-being, and safety. Our vertically integrated model provides opportunities for growth across the energy lifecycle from sale through installation and beyond.

A renewable energy transformation is underway, with rooftop solar and rechargeable batteries expanding as the grid evolves. Sunrun aims to lead in home electrification and Distributed Energy Resources through Virtual Power Plants. We are seeking skilled individuals who share an entrepreneurial, customer-first mindset to help cement Sunrun as a leader in this revolution.

Sunrun is the country's largest residential distributed power plant operator with over 130k batteries and 650 MWs enrolled in programs in summer 2025. Join our team at this pivotal moment in the industry.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Strategic Technical Product Lead you will be responsible for linking our Grid Services products and Data Integration services. You will partner with the tech team to vision and oversee a best-in-class data platform for operating Virtual Power Plants consisting of multiple battery vendors and other distributed energy resource technologies. You will lead the build of a new technical product requiring an organized data warehouse for storing, validating, organizing, aggregating, and serving time-based energy data. The data infrastructure should standardize observability and monitoring.

You will understand core business objectives and define the future state technology platform vision. You will define business requirements for the backend data pipeline, schema, and API strategy to manage DPPs through a centralized command platform with a front-end product interface for internal and external users. This includes API connectivity to battery and DERMS vendors, full stack web app development, data processing and normalization (e.g. telemetry), and data visualization (e.g. map and display of all batteries).

You will act as Sunrun's public-facing technology expert and assist the business development and policy teams in partner meetings, conferences, and regulatory proceedings. You will work with the Operations Team, TPMs, engineering leads, AI managers, and designers across product and platform teams. You will be a thought leader on Grid Services technology strategy (e.g., OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5) and may speak externally as the lead SME. The role will evolve from initial build to maintenance, improvement, and scaling of the platform, including performance responsibilities for the platform and fleet.

• Work within an operational team to define future state technology vision while ensuring day-to-day needs are met.

• Collaborate with Engineering leaders, business stakeholders, and others to drive outcomes.

• Work cross-functionally with program, pricing, policy, operations, product management, and business development to prototype and iterate on product and process; develop and manage team efficiencies and standards.

• Speak externally on behalf of the company in technical fora and in business development meetings with external partners.

• Stay up-to-date on the competitive landscape and changes in the industry.

• Within your first month, familiarize yourself with operations, current battery control strategy and tools, policy developments, and data architecture; ask critical questions and develop a point of view.

• By the end of month two, build business requirements for a new technical product, working with operations and engineers to drive product implementation.

• By month three and beyond, contribute to business development as a subject matter expert on platform capabilities and independently lead product development.

• 5+ years of experience; Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.

• Experience leading data architecture/infrastructure products.

• Experience with energy monitoring and data platforms (e.g., VPPs, DERMS or similar).

• Experience with BigQuery, Snowflake, Salesforce, AWS, and related products.

• Full stack experience preferred, including backend and data skills (Python, Django, PostgreSQL, REST API, React, JavaScript, AWS, and/or Google Cloud).

• Experience optimizing cloud strategies and infrastructures.

• Experience with Observability tools and frameworks (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, CloudWatch).

Recruiter: Kristina Sedjo ( )

Please note that compensation information is provided in good faith for this position and assumes the candidate will be located in markets within the United States where compensation is warranted. Speak with your recruiter to learn more.

Starting salary/wage for this opportunity: $168,914.66 to $225,219.54

Compensation decisions will not be based on a candidate's salary history. You can learn more about compensation here.

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