Voltaiq | Battery Analytics | Berkeley, CA | Product Manager | ONSITE | Authorized to work in US
“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist
The Voltaiq cloud-based Battery Intelligence software platform brings unprecedented data analytics, visualization, and predictive capabilities to any company with a battery-powered business model. Top automakers, consumer electronics, and energy storage companies use Voltaiq to accelerate product development, improve performance, ensure safety and reliability, and secure financing for their products. Our high-powered team is comprised of PhD scientists, expert data professionals, and battery industry veterans, all passionate about enabling the global energy transition. Voltaiq has offices in Berkeley, CA and Munich, Germany serving customers around the world.
The role:
- Manage the product lifecycle from user research and requirements definition to the tactical execution of building and launching a live product
- Understand customer needs and workflows through direct interaction with customers, as well as collaboration with our Sales and Customer Success teams
- Iterate with the design team to create UX solutions that are simple, coherent, and powerful
- Prioritize work and participate in sprint planning as the product owner
- Facilitate customer feedback sessions to gather direct input on product usability and feature success
- Define and track KPIs to evaluate feature adoption and feature success
Qualifications:
- 5+ years enterprise SaaS product management focused on defining functional requirements and driving implementation
- Proven track record shipping early-stage products
- Strong user empathy, with a focus on delivering value to end users
- Experience working on end-to-end features, from iterating with UX through working with engineering to define APIs
- Desire to drive a mature product management process at a fast-paced startup
- A passion for working to accelerate the global transition to clean energy
Voltaiq is an equal opportunity employer. Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.
The Role: At Voltaiq, we enable battery researchers and applications engineers to explore and visualize battery performance data, alongside metadata describing how those batteries were made and operated. As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will work with the Product Manager to design the user-facing side of a web application offering powerful data search, processing, visualization, and advanced workflow functionality. You will learn how battery data is used to improve the performance of mobile devices, electric vehicles, and the power grid. You will design dashboards and other interfaces presenting performance statistics to our customers. If you love data visualization and delightful user experiences, and want to have a positive impact on how the world consumes energy, then this is the job for you!
Responsibilities:
* Understand the evolving needs of our customers, and how these are served by the product.
* Collaborate with Customer Success and Engineering teams to assess effectiveness and feasibility of designs.
* Iterate with the product manager to define product features that are simple, coherent, and powerful.
* Design and maintain a UX system to collect and organize both the qualitative observations and the quantitative metrics of of user behavior.
* Work with product manager to develop user personas and user stories.
* Map out our users’ conceptual model and design the site information architecture.
* Create wireframes, mockups, screenflows, and clickable prototypes for new product features.
* Test and validate working hypothesis with users through usability testing of wireframes, clickable prototypes and published product, and participate in design critique.
* Help define and integrate a visual identity into the Voltaiq platform.
* Find creative ways to solve UX problems and display complex data visually.
Qualifications:
* Master’s degree in Information Management, HCI or related field.
* At least 5 years of experience in user-centered interface design for web applications.
* Proficiency with visual design tools, such as Sketch, Invision, and Adobe Creative Suite.
* Experience with data visualization, including charting libraries such as D3, C3, and Plotly.
* Experience designing interactions for enterprise workflows.
* Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
* Strong user empathy; ability to find creative solutions to UX problems and user pain points.
* Strong teamwork and mentorship skills.
* Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
* Comfortable with remote work and communicating effectively through real-time text, audio, or video chat.
Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits. The role is full-time in our Berkeley, CA office (3-4 days/week on-site, the rest can be remote). Our company culture is mature, low-key and lighthearted, but serious about our mission and our work. No jerks, no insane hours, several of us have kids. All of us care a lot about advancing the global energy transition.
Voltaiq is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to achieving a diverse workforce through application of its equal opportunity and nondiscrimination policy, in all aspects of employment.
The Role:
At Voltaiq, we enable battery researchers and applications engineers to explore and visualize battery performance data, alongside metadata describing how those batteries were made and operated. As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will work with the Product Manager to design the user-facing side of a web application offering powerful data search, processing, visualization, and advanced workflow functionality. You will learn how battery data is used to improve the performance of mobile devices, electric vehicles, and the power grid. You will design dashboards and other interfaces presenting performance statistics to our customers. If you love data visualization and delightful user experiences, and want to have a positive impact on how the world consumes energy, then this is the job for you!
Responsibilities:
* Understand the evolving needs of our customers, and how these are served by the product.
* Collaborate with Customer Success and Engineering teams to assess effectiveness and feasibility of designs.
* Iterate with the product manager to define product features that are simple, coherent, and powerful.
* Design and maintain a UX system to collect and organize both the qualitative observations and the quantitative metrics of of user behavior.
* Work with product manager to develop user personas and user stories.
* Map out our users’ conceptual model and design the site information architecture.
* Create wireframes, mockups, screenflows, and clickable prototypes for new product features.
* Test and validate working hypothesis with users through usability testing of wireframes, clickable prototypes and published product, and participate in design critique.
* Help define and integrate a visual identity into the Voltaiq platform.
* Find creative ways to solve UX problems and display complex data visually.
Qualifications:
* Master’s degree in Information Management, HCI or related field.
* At least 5 years of experience in user-centered interface design for web applications.
* Proficiency with visual design tools, such as Sketch, Invision, and Adobe Creative Suite.
* Experience with data visualization, including charting libraries such as D3, C3, and Plotly.
* Experience designing interactions for enterprise workflows.
* Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
* Strong user empathy; ability to find creative solutions to UX problems and user pain points.
* Strong teamwork and mentorship skills.
* Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
* Comfortable with remote work and communicating effectively through real-time text, audio, or video chat.
Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA, and we work remotely a couple of days each week.
Voltaiq is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to achieving a diverse workforce through application of its equal opportunity and nondiscrimination policy, in all aspects of employment.
Haven't read all the comments here, but isn't it possible or even likely that it's Remain voters having an "oh shit what next" moment that are Googling the EU and the implications of leaving, as opposed to ignorant abstainers and Leave voters checking up on the consequences of their vote after the fact?
The article doesn't actually take a position, but the tenor of the viral social media chatter seems to assume the latter case.
Voltaiq - SF Bay Area - Full Time - Onsite - voltaiq.com
Data Engineering / Full Stack
“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist, January 16, 2016
Powering applications from consumer electronics to IoT, EVs, medical, aerospace, and grid storage, batteries enable our modern world. However battery performance remains the key bottleneck impeding adoption of these technologies. Voltaiq is changing that, using software.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful cloud-based Battery Intelligence platform for analytics, machine learning, and visualization to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and battery-powered products. We have customers, SaaS revenue, and funding, and we’re growing our team (now at 9) to meet demand. We seek product-focused developers who have a passion for shipping well-crafted software.
We’re hiring for a senior developer position in backend data engineering, with some full-stack inclination as a bonus.
Candidates should have:
- 5+ years experience engineering large-scale data systems including database scaling, distributed systems, ETL pipelines from multiple different data sources
- Strong coding skills in one or more of: Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, Go
- Experience with Git, development on Linux/*nix, SQL and relational databases
- A degree in CS, Physics, Math, Engineering, or related, and interest in energy and solving hard science problems using data
- US Citizenship
Experience with the following would be a plus:
- Web framework (eg Django) and deployment stack (cookies, sessions, websockets)
“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist, January 16, 2016
Powering applications from consumer electronics to the IoT, EVs, medical, aerospace, and grid storage, batteries enable our modern world. However battery performance remains the key bottleneck impeding adoption of these technologies. Voltaiq is changing that, using software.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful cloud-based platform for data analytics, machine learning, and visualization to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and battery-powered products. We have customers, recurring revenue, and funding, and we’re growing our team (currently 8) to meet customer demand. We look for product-focused developers who have a passion for shipping well-crafted software.
At present we’re hiring for a senior developer position for data engineering, with some full-stack inclination as a bonus.
Candidates should have:
* 5+ years experience engineering large-scale data systems including database scaling, distributed systems, and ETL pipelines from multiple different data sources
* Strong coding skills in one or more of: Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, Go
* Experience with Git, development on Linux/nix, SQL and relational databases
A degree in CS, Physics, Math, Engineering, or related, and interest in energy and solving hard science problems using data
* US Citizenship
Experience with the following would be a plus:
* Web framework (eg Django) and deployment stack (cookies, sessions, websockets)
FWIW my company had a terrible, terrible experience with Zenefits and ditched them after less than a year. Incompetent customer service, crappy software (one problem we had was a result of a corrupted database record, according to one of their reps, that had to be manually corrected by a developer), no one seemed to know what they were doing. As a founder I told their reps multiple times that we were a startup too -- ostensibly their target market -- and that we were willing to work through some problems with them, but they didn't seem to care and frankly just kept fucking up. Once we hit 5 people we switched to TriNet and have gotten great service AND we're saving tons on the insurance side, even accounting for TriNet's monthly per-employee fee.
Generally I avoid rooting for others to fail, but I can't help but feel just a teeny bit of schadenfreude with this recent news. For the last couple years I've been rolling my eyes with each new piece of breathless coverage. The Zenefits people are talking about now sounds a lot more like the one I experienced dealing with.
Multiple Positions: Data Engineering, Data Science, Frontend, Full Stack
“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist, January 16, 2016
Powering applications from consumer electronics to the IoT, EVs, medical, aerospace, and grid storage, batteries enable our modern world. However battery performance remains the key bottleneck impeding adoption of these technologies. Voltaiq is changing that, using software.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful cloud-based platform for data analytics, machine learning, and visualization to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and battery-powered products. We have customers, recurring revenue, and funding, and we’re growing our team to meet customer demand. We’re growing our team (currently 6) with product-focused developers who have a passion for shipping well-crafted software.
Candidates should be:
- Strong coders in one or more of: Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, Go.
- Experienced with Git, development on Linux/*nix, SQL and relational databases.
- Degree holders in CS, Physics, Math, Engineering, or related, and interest in energy and solving hard science problems using data.
- US Citizens.
Some specifics:
Data Engineer / Data Scientist
- Advanced database usage including scaling, distributed systems, ETL pipelines from multiple different data sources.
- Python analysis tools: numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, and machine learning, supervised learning, neural and bayesian networks, advanced statistics.
We've been using Highcharts in our app for about 2 years and are generally pretty happy with it.
The one thing Highcharts doesn't do well is line charts for data series where the x-axis value isn't always increasing (ie data that loops around on the plot). Usually renders ok the first time but zoom breaks completely in our experience.
For us this issue is a big enough pain for our users (who have been stuck with scatter plots as the only working...workaround) that we'll probably move to plotly as soon as we can now that it's open source.
+1 We left Zenefits about 18 months ago after a series of colossal screwups on their part. I'm both amazed and not surprised that so many other companies continue to have similar difficulties with them.
We spent waaaay too much time dealing with their support team, constantly being shuffled around to different people. At one point we discovered they had left my co-founder's wife off of his policy for 3 months (later acknowledging this was their fault). They're an insurance broker, and they couldn't even sell insurance!
FWIW at the time we were also using Zenpayroll, and had a good experience with them.
We switched over to TriNet for everything mid-2014, which for us was a great choice. We have people in NY and CA, and once we hit 5 employees it was a no-brainer even with the monthly fee per employee. The health plans are much, much cheaper for a similar offering, and our support experience has been generally pretty good after a somewhat rough onboarding. Also all of the onboarding fees with TriNet seem to be pretty negotiable. But overall the most important thing is that we're saving money and spending very little time or energy worrying about HR matters.
Seems pretty clear to me that the right answer here varies case by case. My company sells enterprise software in a fairly niche market. Some people in Europe are squatting on our .com, so we have .io and .co and use both for various things. We're a startup but have achieved pretty good name recognition and visibility among our target customer base through various marketing activities and plain old hustle. Also if you google our name, the entire first page of results are refer directly to us (website, crunchbase, linkedin, etc.). So from where I sit it would seem to do a lot more harm than good to change our name at this point in pursuit of the .com. Respect for PG etc. etc. but this is not a one-size-fits-all question.
We try to get as much as possible up front, with a minimum of half of the first year up front. After that it's monthly or quarterly payments, depending on what we negotiate. So far all payments have been by check.
For context, we're early stage with a handful of initial customers, mostly small companies. Deal sizes in the five figures per year.
Battery performance is the key bottleneck slowing the adoption of electric vehicles, renewable energy, and longer-lasting, more powerful mobile electronics.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful web-based data analytics, machine learning, and visualization platform to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and other energy devices. We have early customer revenue, industry partnerships, and grant funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Voltaiq is looking for creative, experienced, and extremely talented software developers to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. We’re looking to fill out our initial team with someone who has full-stack backend experience both shipping features and managing multiple-server deployments.
We are looking to fill a position immediately, and will give preference to those with a broad knowledge base and a strong desire to learn.
Desired Tech Skills:
* Strong coding skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Go.
* Experience using a web framework such as Django.
* Solid understanding of a web deployment stack: Cookies, sessions, websockets, asset management.
* Experience with ZeroMQ or a similar asynchronous messaging system.
* Knowledge of Git and experience committing to a team code repository.
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
* Strong command of development on Linux.
* Deployment experience is a plus: AWS, Salt Stack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Fabric, Nginx, uWSGI.
Other Prerequisites:
* Undergraduate or advanced degree in Computer Science, Physics, Math, Engineering, or a related discipline.
* At least 3 years of experience developing and shipping software.
* Willingness to travel occasionally for in-person meetings, conferences, and deployments.
* Strong team player with the ability to help build and work as a cohesive team.
* Applicants must be US Citizens or green card holders.
Compensation: Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.
Location(s): SF Bay Area, NYC (we work remotely part-time, but you should have a base in or around SF or NYC).
Battery performance is the key bottleneck slowing the adoption of electric vehicles, renewable energy, and longer-lasting, more powerful mobile electronics.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful web-based data analytics, machine learning, and visualization platform to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and other energy devices. We have early customer revenue, industry partnerships, and grant funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Voltaiq is looking for creative, experienced, and extremely talented software developers to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. We’re looking to fill out our initial team with someone who has full-stack backend experience both shipping features and managing multiple-server deployments.
We are looking to fill a position immediately, and will give preference to those with a broad knowledge base and a strong desire to learn.
Desired Tech Skills:
* Strong coding skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Go.
* Experience using a web framework such as Django.
* Solid understanding of a web deployment stack: Cookies, sessions, websockets, asset management.
* Experience with ZeroMQ or a similar asynchronous messaging system.
* Knowledge of Git and experience committing to a team code repository.
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
* Strong command of development on Linux.
* Deployment experience is a plus: AWS, Salt Stack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Fabric, Nginx, uWSGI.
Other Prerequisites:
* Undergraduate or advanced degree in Computer Science, Physics, Math, Engineering, or a related discipline.
* At least 3 years of experience developing and shipping software.
* Willingness to travel occasionally for in-person meetings, conferences, and deployments.
* Strong team player with the ability to help build and work as a cohesive team.
* Applicants must be US Citizens or green card holders.
Compensation: Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.
Location(s): SF Bay Area, NYC (we work remotely part-time, but you should have a base in or around SF or NYC).
Software Developers — Full Stack/Backend/Deployment
Battery performance is the key bottleneck slowing the adoption of electric-vehicles, renewable energy, and longer lasting more powerful mobile electronics.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful web-based data analytics and visualization platform to enable better, longer-lasting batteries and other energy devices. We have early customer revenue, industry partnerships, and grant funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Voltaiq is looking for creative, experienced, and extremely talented software developers to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City (remote will be considered for more senior applicants, US only). We’re looking to fill out our initial team with someone who has full-stack backend experience both shipping features and managing multiple-server deployments.
We are looking to fill a position immediately, and will give preference to those with a broad knowledge base and a strong desire to learn.
Desired Tech Skills:
* Strong coding skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Go.
* Solid understanding of a web deployment stack: Cookies, sessions, websockets, asset management.
* Experience with ZeroMQ or a similar asynchronous messaging system.
* Strong command of Linux and deployments on Amazon Web Services.
Anyone else just go out and give one of these bikes a close once-over? That was me at Spring and 6th Ave. pawing the rack of Citibikes just a minute ago. I was going to start carrying around a roll of tape...
“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist
The Voltaiq cloud-based Battery Intelligence software platform brings unprecedented data analytics, visualization, and predictive capabilities to any company with a battery-powered business model. Top automakers, consumer electronics, and energy storage companies use Voltaiq to accelerate product development, improve performance, ensure safety and reliability, and secure financing for their products. Our high-powered team is comprised of PhD scientists, expert data professionals, and battery industry veterans, all passionate about enabling the global energy transition. Voltaiq has offices in Berkeley, CA and Munich, Germany serving customers around the world.
The role: - Manage the product lifecycle from user research and requirements definition to the tactical execution of building and launching a live product - Understand customer needs and workflows through direct interaction with customers, as well as collaboration with our Sales and Customer Success teams - Iterate with the design team to create UX solutions that are simple, coherent, and powerful - Prioritize work and participate in sprint planning as the product owner - Facilitate customer feedback sessions to gather direct input on product usability and feature success - Define and track KPIs to evaluate feature adoption and feature success
Qualifications: - 5+ years enterprise SaaS product management focused on defining functional requirements and driving implementation - Proven track record shipping early-stage products - Strong user empathy, with a focus on delivering value to end users - Experience working on end-to-end features, from iterating with UX through working with engineering to define APIs - Desire to drive a mature product management process at a fast-paced startup - A passion for working to accelerate the global transition to clean energy
Voltaiq is an equal opportunity employer. Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.
Full job descriptions and application portal at: https://www.voltaiq.com/about-us/careers/all-open-positions/