Associate Client Success Manager

Associate Client Success Manager (West)

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and businesses’ commercial and industrial loads into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power. EnergyHub’s Client Success team launches and operates best-in-class programs for electric and gas utilities, helping them address grid challenges by engaging customers with connected devices. 

As an Associate Client Success Manager, helping our clients achieve their goals is your mandate: you will support:

• one of the largest California utilities to expand their demand response portfolio
• the Client Success West region with account management

This role includes handling foundational level operations and day-to-day processes during different points in the client life cycle across multi-threaded teams; you will be responsible for ensuring daily tasks are completed in accordance with department policy and procedure guidelines and any additional client-specific standard operating procedures.

There will also be an opportunity to own the client relationship end-to-end for a client including managing the launch of our platform and programs, building and maintaining strong client relationships, and serving as a trusted partner to our clients and their subcontractors, our sales, product, engineering and marketing teams to maintain account health.

This role is a great opportunity for someone looking to get started in, or progress on their journey with utility partnerships, and wants exposure to every stage in maintaining successful client relationships. 

This is an ideal job for someone who has a passion for working with clients, software products and project management tasks, exercises sound business judgment and possesses a keen commercial sense and is an effective multi-tasker with great attention to detail. The successful candidate is a quick learner and proactive self-starter, has the ability to communicate a variety of data driven messages to varying audiences, can build relationships effortlessly, is client-focused, and consistently achieves results.   

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Be a Client Success advocate: Be the project manager for program launch tasks and manage multi-faceted programs with device partners, clients and internal teams. Ensure account activities are executed in a timely fashion in accordance with established standard operating procedure for the accounts you are supporting and assist client success team members in day-to-day tasks and ad hoc projects including taking notes during onboarding and client calls. 
• Be a trusted advisor who helps clients achieve their goals: Manage internal expectations as well as those of your clients and prioritize program tasks/activities using business judgment to balance internal objectives with client goals. Spend time understanding and driving clients’ objectives and growth targets and ultimately guide them through key decisions to design programs that support these targets. Creatively problem-solve when difficult situations arise and resolve operational challenges.
• Be an effective internal and client facing communicator and storyteller: Prepare recurring client reports, analyze and present key results, facilitate meetings, and deliver nuanced technical and data driven messages to clients. Maintain consistent and frequent communication with an array of stakeholders including clients and device partners to ensure efficient program implementation, review ongoing needs, and provide timely solutions and recommendations to help achieve program success.
• Be a product and service expert: Develop a comprehensive knowledge of demand management, DERs (distributed energy resources), and the drivers of program success. Foster a deep understanding of the product, service offerings and functionality to effectively communicate capabilities to clients, contribute to shaping program design and provide training to client program teams.  
• Be an administrative and project management powerhouse: Seamlessly coordinate and manage communication and logistics around client and subcontractor invoicing processes and related reporting and other tasks as assigned.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS

You have / are:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to describe complex and technical topics in an engaging and succinct manner
• Demonstrated success working directly with clients, preferably having interfaced with or managed the same clients over an extended period of time (min. 2 years) 
• Project management experience with the ability to multitask, hit deadlines, and think through risk and dependencies
• An analytical, yet creative and curious mind, with a confident approach to numbers and spreadsheets
• The ability to build trust and foster outstanding client and partner relationships
• Good judgment in a business context
• Experience and passion for working with a team in a cross-functional, fast paced work environment
• Experience managing multiple high-priority projects and the ability to proactively follow up on tasks and projects 
• A BS or BA degree
• At least 2-3 years of professional experience in technology services or customer success with a strong preference for experience within a SaaS or enterprise software-related field 
• Experience working in or with renewable energy, utilities, grid services or adjacent industries ( cleantech/climate tech) preferred
• The ideal candidate will be based in Los Angeles or California. Candidates in western states (UT, NV, WA, and OR will also be considered).
• Please note: we will not consider candidates that are based out of other states

Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

Why work for EnergyHub?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: Our employees work hard, do great work, and enjoy collaborating and learning from each other.
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Gain well rounded experience: EnergyHub offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Work with the latest technologies: You'll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT, SaaS and machine learning obstacles, including distributed fault-tolerance, device control optimization, and process modeling to support scalable interaction with disparate downstream APIs.
• Be part of something important: Help create the future of how energy is produced and consumed. Make a positive impact on our climate.

About EnergyHub

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

To learn more, visit energyhub.com.

Company Benefits

EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match. We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.

EnergyHub is an Equal Opportunity Employer

EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact [email protected].

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Notice To Third Party Agencies:

EnergyHub understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you.