Manager, Development (Remote In Canada)

ABOUT POWER FACTORS

Power Factors develops software that accelerates the global energy transition by empowering all renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make the best decisions. Power Factors fights climate change with code.

Power Factors has incorporated its four flagship solutions Drive, Greenbyte, Inaccess and BluePoint to build an integrated suite of open and smart apps. These apps are purpose built for asset management, field service optimization, and performance optimization. Leveraging the domain expertise and machine learning-based advanced analytics within these apps, customers can maximize the value of their renewable assets to stay competitive.

Power Factors’ renewable energy software platform is one of the most extensive and widely deployed solutions in the market with nearly 200 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets managed worldwide.

Learn more at powerfactors.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a part of growing the Development department, we're now looking for a Manager, Development who is willing to help leverage Power Factors and the renewable energy industry!

As a Manager, Development at Power Factors, your primary focus is the people and teams you support; ensuring that the people are growing in their role and that the team(s) are healthy and high performing.

We are an agile with a continuous improvement mindset. Our product is based on a JavaScript/Typescript/React front-end and a Cloud-hosted .NET/Python/GoLang backend. We’re in the process of moving towards a distributed, scalable, microservice architecture using cloud services.

Our product development is divided into cross-functional teams, each autonomously owning and maintaining an area of the product. They work together with their product manager to define and deliver end-to-end features that help our customers manage their renewable portfolio in a constantly changing and growing energy market.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop your leadership skills through internal and external learning events.
• You will be involved in your team(s) day-to-day, coordinating activities and ceremonies as needed and exerting leadership in the form and level required by them.
• You will be the representative of your team(s) for all stakeholders and teams they need to collaborate with. (Knowing that we strongly encourage developers direct contact across teams).
• You will have managerial responsibility for the members of your team(s). This includes, for example, having regular 1:1s and follow up on everyone’s growth and wellbeing at work.
• Partake in the Development leadership team where you will be driving department-wide initiatives and share learnings and ideas with the other Managers, Development.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to help drive a product-led organization.
• Actively work towards building a psychologically safe and inclusive workplace for everyone in your team(s)
• You will be coaching one or more development teams, striving to make the team(s) become great at delivering value, working effectively together, and building high quality, modern software using Agile practices.
• Work in a fast-growing and diverse company with colleagues from all around the world.

YOUR PROFILE

• You love to work with multiple priorities and adapt to different situations.
• You care about people and enjoy seeing how your efforts make people become happier, grow as team members and in their role, and succeed together.
• You like being challenged and to challenge your surroundings and want to make the world better by reaching win-win outcomes.
• Building happy, high performing teams that work well together in an agile workplace is your thing.
• You like to deeply understand the business and technical side of your team(s) work.
• You have a general interest in renewable energy and would be thrilled to contribute to building software that helps the sector move forward.
• Highly collaborative, open to ideas proposed by others.
• Ability to rally around team decisions.
• You are looking for a workplace where you are encouraged to have fun and be yourself.
• 7 plus experience in project delivery and managing a team building high quality modern software.
• You’re proficient with Agile modern software development and have at least 3 years of experience leading/coaching software development teams.

LIFE @ POWER FACTORS

We are an agile software development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry, taking advantage of rapidly evolving technologies. We are a collective of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. Our team is made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce and humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.

WHY JOIN US

• A humble cause with a clear purpose– you will help us fight climate change with every day at work. We aim to be environmentally conscious in all aspects of our operations.
• Work with passionate experts and top talents in your field– we are proud of our highly skilled crowd and the savviness each of us brings to the team.
• All the benefits you expect (and more)– besides the basic benefits (adapted to local needs and norms), you will enjoy perks such as 8h of paid volunteering per year and participation in our Corporate Bonus Program (to name a few).
• Friendly and uplifting atmosphere – we believe kindness and respectfulness is core for our culture. A friendly smile or a helping hand is never far away.
• Flexible hours and workplace – it is the result that counts, not when or where. Our hybrid/remote work setup allows everyone to set themselves up for success and create a more sustainable work-life balance.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.