Company Description
Palmetto is a leading clean tech company on a mission to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. With a belief that consumers can have it all, we are an uncompromising energy company that makes coming clean a no brainer. Our award-winning technology platform empowers homeowners, businesses, and entrepreneurs to adopt renewable energy through simple, scalable, and innovative solutions. Operating at the intersection of B2B and D2C, we offer software, financial products, and services that drive real environmental impact—without compromising value. We deliver end-to-end solutions for whole home electrification that put clean energy within reach for all.
Our employees are our most valuable resource. We foster a promote-from-within culture that prioritizes talent development, career growth, and purpose-driven work. Palmetto offers a comprehensive benefits package—including unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid parental leave, retirement plans, and more—so you can have it all both personally and professionally. Palmetto prioritizes people, planet, and profit—backed by a culture that values collaboration, impact, and balance. Join us in building a brighter, cleaner world.
Location
This role will be onsite in Charlotte, NC
Summary of Role
As the Senior Business Operations Director, your role consists of two main functions: glue and swat. As glue, you will lead the Operating Rhythm of the company. This includes leading our corporate strategy (determining how we invest across our business units), and operating rhythms (tracking business unit performance to plan and forecast, and facilitating our monthly and weekly business reviews). As a swat team member, you will be asked to step in and lead on high-impact, high-complexity projects, whether incubating a new concept, resolving a business critical problem via analysis, project management, strategy, stakeholder management, and communications. Reporting to the SVP of Business Operations, you will partner with the leadership team on corporate strategy, with business unit leaders to prep and orchestrate weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, and cross-functionally with multiple teams (Product, Operations, Sales, Finance) on high-priority projects.
Strategic & Tactical
- Support the Leadership Team in the ongoing review and assessment of new ideas through our investment evaluation process
- Partner with Business Units to unlock insights within their businesses, as well as prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews.
- Partner with the Leadership Team and Business Unit Leaders to establish OKRs, and make reporting seamless through operating scorecards.
- Lead management of top priority projects, creating reporting mechanisms on progress and driving projects to successful completion.
- Use your experience to build effective communication plans and execute against them.
- Prioritize building cross-functional relationships and establishing foundations of trust as a business partner
- Leverage your experience in change management to help shepherd organizational and operational change
Requirements
- 10+ years of work experience in a relevant field with cross-functional and collaborative management experience, and a track record of utilizing data to drive business impact required; Ideal experience is in complex operational or marketplace businesses.
- Executive presence with strong communications skills; strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize and a strong bias for solving problems.
- Outstanding strategic planning skills and the ability to translate complex company objectives into actionable plans.
- Data oriented with the ability to leverage analytics to inform key decisions. Be able to share metrics from previous operations managed and have extensive knowledge of the latest systems / platforms. You will deeply understand how and when to optimize for each metric and understand how to create dashboards to reflect these metrics.
- History of identifying and developing business cases for strategic growth initiatives and shepherding operational improvements from ideation to implementation.
- Previously worked at an organization, or within a business unit, that experienced significant growth. Comfortable operating in an environment that is lean, fast moving. Must have the ability to wear multiple hats and has the ability to adjust processes / systems as the company scales. Ability to create structure in ambiguous fast-moving environments
- Demonstrated success in managing multiple stakeholders and resolving conflict within teams, prioritizing and driving to results with a high emphasis on quality.
- Advanced data skills (e.g. Excel, Sheets, Looker)
- EDUCATION: Undergraduate degree is required. MBA is preferred.
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Palmetto embraces diversity and is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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What We Do
Palmetto is committed to the creation of a distributed, decentralized energy source we call The New Utility, which will replace the fossil-fueled, centralized energy model of The Old Utility. We are working towards this democratization of energy by putting power and control back in the hands of consumers and inspiring them to make environmentally responsible choices. To this end, Palmetto has developed a clean energy marketplace, with proprietary technology designed to make it easier and more affordable for homeowners to source their energy from renewables like solar power. We have developed products that reduce costs and drive widespread distribution of simple energy management solutions. Palmetto is a triple bottom line, fully distributed company with teammates throughout the United States.
