Chief of Staff, Product and Engineering

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. 

Chief of Staff for Product and Engineering promotes solid execution and fact-based decision-making across the product organization; acting as the ‘connective tissue’ that links all aspects of the CPO organization to the rest of Fluence. This role will work closely with the Chief Product Officer (CPO) to provide strategic support and operational oversight for the Product organization and its leadership teams. This person will recommend needed changes in organization to address efficiency, skill set gaps, speed, etc. This position will lead the operating rhythms and liaise with the all-domain leaders on all aspects of day-to-day business operations, including workforce strategy, investment decisioning, streamlining operations, strategic alignment, stakeholder communications, stakeholder engagement, program employee engagement, executive presentations, objective and key result management. A key part of this job will be for the person to define what needs to happen for true horizontal integration between CPO, the regions, Digital, GPO, Services, etc. Once creating the definitions, the person will lead the change management exercises to make the horizontal integration effective – and be given the authority to ensure execution.

The person in this role will evaluate team structure and organizational processes and make informed recommendations for changes that enable the product and technologies teams to enable the rapid scaling of the company. An analogy is the current investment Fluence is making in SAP in anticipation of being a $10B company (happening within the IT team). In a similar way, this Chief of Staff will analyze what skills, processes, tools, changes need to happen in the product organization in anticipation of growth, recommend and then guide the change management that follows. The objective is to design and build a team and operational processes for the company we are becoming rather than the company we are today.

This role will drive speed and competitiveness within the CPO teams (program, product, engineering, software) but also between CPO and other Fluence organizations. Fluence is a company of rapid changes – not only within CPO but in each function and region. This person will stay in touch with these changes and make plans for the Product/Engineering teams to adapt, operate and deliver within the shifting landscape. To do this, this leader will cultivate relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders across the company to develop a comprehensive point of view.