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 based onsite in Charlotte, NC.
Reporting
This position will report to our Principal Product Manager.
Summary of Role
This is a technical data PM role on the Platform Product team. This is a great opportunity to build a new product line while getting industry expertise from the core business. You’ll lead a team delivering new data products and an AI-first platform. This is a hands-on role that requires fluency with data, experience building enterprise-grade APIs, and strategic ownership of how the product grows to unlock new customers and use cases. We’re looking for a PM that has the technical depth and vision to scale an AI-first platform, defining and implementing evaluations, and building effective HITL processes. You’ll join a cross functional team with deep energy data experience and partner with stakeholders who are passionate about clean energy.
Strategic & Tactical
- Iterate and scale 0-1 platform products, data schema, and architecture.
- Create intuitive tools to allow users to explore and interpret energy data and to enable effective HITL workflows.
- Being highly detail-oriented will be critical as you synthesize fragmented consumer energy data and local context into insights that bring clarity to your team.
- Define what great looks like for your teams, measure it, and continuously raise the quality bar for our models, workflows, and data.
- Develop a deep understanding of what our customers, businesses, and tech teams need and be their advocate. For this role, you’ll need to learn the ins and outs of the residential energy market and the ecosystem of businesses that make up the industry.
- Proactively communicate. Make sure your external customers and stakeholders are heard and have clear expectations of what you’re delivering.
- Efficiently manage your team with a bias for action. You’ll implement/run processes that help your team deliver quality at speed.
- Lead prioritization and planning efforts. You’ll craft OKRs, a roadmap, and determine what your teams do (and don’t do).
Qualifications
- 5-8 years of product management experience, working with AI systems, data platforms, or ML teams.
- You’ve implemented agentic AI systems and understand how to evaluate nondeterministic products.
- You have built full stack products and know how to best leverage AI prototyping and coding tools to learn faster.
- Best idea wins mentality - you foster debate and drive your team to focus on the most impactful outcomes.
- Data fluency - quantitative rigor and logic are foundational to how you work. You regularly use SQL et al. to inform your decisions and measure success. You have built algorithm-based products.
- Strong writing and communication skills - you write clear, persuasive PRDs, vision docs, and detailed execution plans. You keep stakeholders bought in and influence senior stakeholders
- Scalability & Performance Optimization - experience in identifying, measuring, and addressing performance bottlenecks in data systems and designing scalable platforms.
- Growth mindset with a bias toward action, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
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.
