Software Program Manager in Littleton

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This role is located onsite in Littleton, Colorado

About Emporia Energy

Emporia Energy is striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant. We are accelerating the energy transition by helping small commercial and residential consumers save up to 50% on their utility bills. We combine automated energy management tools, real-time 24/7 energy monitoring with utility rate schedules and wholesale energy prices to give our customers true insight into how they are using and spending money on energy. Our Smart Outlets, EV chargers, home batteries, and cloud integrations to thermostat and EV APIs allow us to reduce pollution, shift usage to less expensive times, and save our customers money.

Our Mission

We help people use energy smarter, save money, and improve the world—guided by four pillars:

• Customer Satisfaction: We listen to our customers and build products that elevate their lives.
• Optimization: We refine processes to offer the highest-quality products at the best value.
• Innovation: We continuously evolve through technology, ingenuity, and common sense.
• Making the World Better: We develop home electrification solutions that solve real problems and improve lives.

About the Role
We need someone to keep our lean software engineering team shipping. You'll coordinate delivery across app, cloud, design, and firmware, manage handoffs with external technical partners, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. You'll report to the Head of Software.

This role starts as program management: coordination, delivery, partner management. For the right person, it has the potential to grow into product management and AI workflow orchestration. You'll build product context and engineering relationships while learning how we use AI to ship faster. The program management work is how you earn credibility to expand scope.

Key Responsibilities

• Bridge PRDs to Engineering. Ensure work is defined, tracked, and moving across three teams (App, Cloud, Firmware).
• Own external partner relationships. Attend their meetings, translate their needs, drive follow-through.
• Keep Jira useful, not ceremonial. Focus on providing visibility into progress and blockers.
• Communicate delivery status to leadership ensuring there are no surprises.
• Coordinate releases and deployment timelines.
• Remove blockers, connect the right people and escalate when needed.
• Document decisions and action items so the team has one source of truth.

Minimum Skills and Qualifications

• Strong communicator, written and verbal. This is the job.
• Organized. You notice when things slip and fix the process, not just the symptom.
• Technical enough to follow engineering discussions. You won't write code, but you should know how software ships.
• Self-directed. You see what needs doing and do it.
• Adaptable. We use AI tools aggressively and the way we work changes month to month. You should already be using AI in your current role and be excited to push further.

Experience

• 2-5 years in program management, project management, or technical coordination
• Experience working directly with software engineering teams
• Open to adjacent backgrounds (support leads, QA managers, dev ops coordinators) with strong coordination skills
• External vendor or partner management is a strong plus

What moves you higher in the range:

• IoT, energy, or hardware+software company experience
• Track record of improving delivery predictability
• Already using AI tools daily: meeting notes, research, drafting, automation
• PMP or similar (not required; results matter more than frameworks)

Why Emporia

• The team: 10-15 engineers, direct access to CTO and Head of Software. Your work ships to hundreds of thousands of customers. You'll collaborate daily with engineering leadership and the Head of AI.
• Growth: This can become a product management role. You'll get exposure to the CEO and executive team, mentorship from engineering leadership, and hands-on experience with AI-accelerated workflows that most companies are still talking about
• Environment: Atlassian suite, Google Workspace, Claude, Perplexity, and a progressive AI policy. In-office 5 days/week in Littleton, CO.

What Six-Month Success Looks Like

• Partner calls run without engineering leadership sitting in every one
• Engineers know what they're building next. No ambiguity between PRD and implementation.
• Releases are predictable. The team knows what's shipping and when.
• Dependencies surface before they become blockers
• You've built trust across engineering, product, and our external partners

What We Offer

Compensation: The expected base salary range is $100,000-$140,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the stated range depending on numerous factors including, but not limited to work experience, skills and internal equity considerations.

Benefits: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), employee stock option program, paid holidays plus unlimited PTO, discounts on Emporia products and partner offerings

Career Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of home energy innovation

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check

Emporia Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to , , ancestry, , , , sexual , marital status, , , , , results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We will make reasonable accommodations for any qualified applicant with a , provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation and that the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please let us know if you believe you require reasonable accommodation, or if you would like assistance to complete an application or to participate in an interview at the company.

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