Jobs at Energy Efficiency DC Startup

This is a unique opportunity to work at a rapidly growing, successful
startup, and put a significant dent in carbon emissions at the same
time. We are well funded, and our founders are serial entrepreneurs
who have built successful companies before.

Positive Energy is building a communication platform for utilities
and state governments designed to target the half of the global
warming equation that not enough people are looking at—efficiency and
energy demand. Our approach rests on a data warehousing and
analytics engine that powers both targeted direct marketing to
increase consumer response to relevant offers and behavioral science
to dramatically drive down consumption. Our Science Board is led by
Professor Robert Cialdini, the nation's leading behavioral scientist,
whose field-tested studies have consistently reduced energy
consumption by 5-10%. Our direct marketing team is led by senior
executives from Capital One who has had responsibility for $250M
direct mail budgets in the past.

The government and utilities in this country are listening and
signing up. We've been landing major contracts with utilities, and
we're working hard on expanding our platform and our reach.

You will become a part of our elite team building our solution. The
product you build will change the way millions of people across the
country think about and use energy.

Job Openings

Following are descriptions of the job openings we currently have
available:

1. VP/Director Business Development
2. Business Analyst
3. Lead QA Engineer
4. Sr. Software Product Manager
5. Web Developer
6. Sr. Java Developer
7. Data-mining Engineer

VP/Director Business Development
For immediate consideration, email your resume:
jobs@positiveenergyusa..com
About the Job
We are a rapidly growing organization that is expanding its reach in
the market both vertically and horizontally. You will act as our
business' pioneer, forging into the new territory for us such as
advertising sales, partnerships, or different sales approaches. You
will be a core member of the executive team, working hand in hand
with our CEO and President to decide on how to strategically expand
the business, and then you will run ahead fast and furiously to
execute that strategy.

This is a perfect job for an entrepreneurial superstar with 5-10
years of business development, strategy and sales experience who
wants to be part of a small team, take on tremendous responsibility
and have a huge impact.

About You
• You are an intuitively strategic thinker who is deeply
business savvy.
• BS, MS, and/or MBA preferably analytical (Economics, Applied
Math, etc)
• You are one of the most productive people you know.
Figuring out the strategy is exciting, but executing it is what you
really thrive on.
• A perfect day on the job starts with a morning spent cold-
calling advertising execs for the nation's largest big box retailers,
followed by negotiating a strategic partnership with a nation-wide
print mail house, and ends with working with the founders on the
twelve month sales and marketing hiring plan.
• You function well in a fast-paced informal environment where
constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
Business Analyst
For immediate consideration, email your resume:
jobs@positiveenergyusa..com
About the Job
This is like a consulting job, except you get to work exclusively for
a cool company innovating new business models in energy efficiency
and conservation. You will work with our senior executives to
analyze new businesses, refine current models, and help us build and
optimize our direct mail marketing analytics engine.

This is an IDEAL job for a consultant and/or analytical whiz with 3-5
years of experience who wants to have more ownership, responsibility
and autonomy.
About You
* You have a BS in Economics, Applied Math or a related field.
* You are not afraid of case question interviews. You love them.
* You are super good with excel.
* You understand business and business modeling.
* Familiarity with basic accounting principals is a big plus
* You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where
constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
Lead QA Engineer
For immediate consideration, email your resume:
engjobs@positiveenergyusa.com
About The Job
We only get a few chances with each customer to really capture their
attention. QA for us is critical and highly valued.

This is an IDEAL job for a QA Engineer or a developer who loves QA
with 5-10 years of experience who wants to be part of a small team,
feel total ownership over their work, and make a huge contribution to
the success of our business.
About You
* You are the sort of testing wizard who every developer wishes had
worked with them at all their previous jobs, because you find the
subtle bugs and figure out how to reproduce them.
* You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
* You know the latest development methodologies and know how to work
with development teams to write testable code and unit tests to go
with them.
* Loadrunner and other sophisticated testing platforms are dear
friends of yours.
* You are a scripting ninja. You are happiest when you have access to
a terminal.
* You see the automation of tests as an exciting engineering practice.
* You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where
constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
Skills
* Scripting (VB script, UNIX/Bash, perl, Ruby, etc)
* SQL
* Writing test plans and other concise documentation
* Communication with developers and stakeholders
Sr. Software Product Manager
For immediate consideration, email your resume:
engjobs@positiveenergyusa.com
About the Job
You will work with the senior management to understand our market and
translate that into product design. You will own and manage the
product roadmap. You will write functional specs, negotiate with
vendors, and keep everything on track.

This is an IDEAL job for a software product manager with 5-10 years
of experience who wants to be part of a rapidly growing startup, feel
total ownership over their work, and work hard to make this a
dramatic success.
About You
* You love product design that gets it right—elegant solutions that
are functional, beautiful, easy to build and easy to use.
* You have a BS or MS in hard sciences (preferably Comp Sci or Econ)
* You work well with developers and they work well with you.
* You have great business insight and are very creative
* You are deeply familiar with software cycles, schedules, and
managing deadlines.
* Love to get my hands dirty is your middle name.
* You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where
constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.
Sr. Java Developer
For immediate consideration, email your resume:
engjobs@positiveenergyusa.com
About the Job
You will work across the entire technology stack and be fully
responsible for what you build – from design to implementation to
deployment and maintenance. You will write elegant, maintainable,
robust, scalable code every day.

This is an IDEAL job for an engineer with 5-10 years of experience
who wants to be part of a small team, feel total ownership over their
work, and code like a ninja to make this a raging success.
About You
* You are one of those developers who somehow always manages to get
10 times more done than your peers.
* You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
* You are fluent in Java and SQL. You are at least partially fluent
in Ruby on Rails and/or PHP.
* Experience with data warehousing and mining is a big plus. Previous
work with machine learning is better still.
* The idea of owning more than 20% of a source repository gives you
shivers of joy.
* You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where
constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.

Web Developer
About the Job
We're looking for a smart and talented web developer, who is looking
for early-career experience with a top-notch development team. You
will work directly with our small development team to create
impactful, well-designed web front ends for our applications. The
product you build will change the way millions of people across the
country think about and use energy.

Responsibilities
* Ownership of our Ruby on Rails and Javascript webapp
* Create the front end for our energy efficiency reporting engine
* HTML/CSS development, with a twist: the graphics are in vector
format
* Work with our Java PDF generation app to tweak layouts
* Support development of our corporate website

About You
* Very strong with HTML/CSS
* Very strong with Javascript
* You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
* Comfortable with both raster and vector graphics
* Some Ruby on Rails preferred
* You have a strong drive to learn and enjoy challenges
* You love to create beautiful and precise layouts

Sr. Data Mining Engineer
For immediate consideration, email your resume:
engjobs@positiveenergyusa.com
About The Job
We are a company whose success or failure will be largely determined
by our mastery of our accelerating streams of data. You will have
full responsibility for the software, processes and statistical
analyses that will make it possible. You will work from the ground
up on both the technology and the math—selecting software systems,
designing and performing the statistical analyses we need, and
visualizing the results so as to make good decision-making
possible.

This is an IDEAL job for a developer who loves math and statistics or
a statistician with significant programming experience who wants to
be part of a small team, feel total ownership over their work, and
make a huge contribution to the success of our business.

About You
* You idolize Gauss.
* You have a BS or MS in Math, Computer Science, Statistics or a
related field.
* You have a lot of experience with databases. Nested selects are
second nature.
* You have deep experience with stats analysis systems like SAS and
SPSS.
* Experience doing data analysis for marketing programs
(segmentation, prediction, etc) is a big plus
* You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where
constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high.