Chief Product & Technology Officer
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About the company:
Nira Energy is a software and data analytics company focused on accelerating the clean energy transition by streamlining the grid interconnection process. The company delivers ISO-accurate capacity and cost data tools that help renewable energy developers, transmission planning engineers, utility teams, and Independent System Operators (ISOs) de-risk interconnection studies and make faster, more confident siting and queue decisions. By replicating ERIS and NRIS interconnection studies with high fidelity, Nira Energy enables its customers to identify cost discrepancies, avoid false positives, and reduce expensive upgrade risks before committing capital to projects.
Nira Energy's mission is centered on enabling efficient grid transformation to support the large-scale deployment of clean energy. The platform has modeled over 700 gigawatts of projects and has helped uncover more than five billion dollars in cost discrepancies for customers, with over 100 developers relying on its tools. The company was built by engineers with direct experience at ISOs, utilities, and leading energy developers, giving its methodology a level of technical credibility and alignment that distinguishes it from approximation-based alternatives.
What makes Nira Energy unique is its commitment to transparency and ISO-aligned methodology, providing stakeholders across the energy value chain with a shared, accurate view of interconnection data. This approach reduces information asymmetry between developers and grid operators, ultimately helping more clean energy projects reach operation faster and with less wasted capital.
About Nira Energy
- Nira's mission is to help convert the US power grid to be 100% fossil-free.
- We are profitable!
- Nira is a software platform that helps renewable energy developers find the cheapest points on the grid to connect.
- We focus on estimating the cost to interconnect with the electrical grid (aka the Interconnection Process). Depending on where developers connect, they may be on the hook to pay millions of dollars to upgrade power lines, substations etc.
About the role
We are looking for a Chief Product & Technology Officer to lead Nira’s Product, Engineering, and Transmission Planning organization. The CPTO will own Nira’s product roadmap and execution, manage a VP of Engineering, a VP of Transmission Planning, and our individual Product Leads. Ultimately this role will be responsible for building the function that helps the company scale product development with speed and quality from end to end.
This is not a classic CTO role and not a pure CPO role. The ideal candidate is a technical product operator: someone who can learn a complex domain, translate customer and market insight into product strategy, and drive cross-functional teams to ship mission critical software.
What you’ll own
• Development of product roadmap and execution across Product, Engineering, and Transmission Planning
• Translation of customer, market, and founder insight into product strategy, priorities, and execution plans
• Building the operating cadence for product development: roadmap planning, product reviews, execution reviews, and customer feedback loops
• Management and coaching of Product Leads, VP Engineering, and VP Transmission Planning.
• Cross-functional decision-making across customer value, technical feasibility, domain correctness, speed, and business impact
• Product quality, usability, reliability, and customer impact
What we’re looking for
• Senior product or technical leadership experience in complex B2B software
• Strong product judgment and track record of execution: you can turn ambiguity into plans, owners, milestones, and shipped product
• Ability to quickly learn a highly niche / complex domain
• Experience managing product teams, engineering teams, or cross-functional technical teams
• Excellent communication and people leadership skills
• Comfort partnering closely with founders while progressively taking ownership of product strategy and roadmap
Ideal backgrounds
• VP Product / CPO at a technical B2B SaaS company.
• GM of a complex technical product line.
• Product leader who has managed a team or product function end to end
• Former technical or product founder who scaled into executive leadership
• Bonus points for experience in energy, grid infrastructure, climate, utilities, transmission, interconnection, or power markets
We are looking for a Chief Product & Technology Officer to lead Nira’s Product, Engineering, and Transmission Planning organization. The CPTO will own Nira’s product roadmap and execution, manage a VP of Engineering, a VP of Transmission Planning, and our individual Product Leads. Ultimately this role will be responsible for building the function that helps the company scale product development with speed and quality from end to end.
This is not a classic CTO role and not a pure CPO role. The ideal candidate is a technical product operator: someone who can learn a complex domain, translate customer and market insight into product strategy, and drive cross-functional teams to ship mission critical software.
What you’ll own
• Development of product roadmap and execution across Product, Engineering, and Transmission Planning
• Translation of customer, market, and founder insight into product strategy, priorities, and execution plans
• Building the operating cadence for product development: roadmap planning, product reviews, execution reviews, and customer feedback loops
• Management and coaching of Product Leads, VP Engineering, and VP Transmission Planning.
• Cross-functional decision-making across customer value, technical feasibility, domain correctness, speed, and business impact
• Product quality, usability, reliability, and customer impact
What we’re looking for
• Senior product or technical leadership experience in complex B2B software
• Strong product judgment and track record of execution: you can turn ambiguity into plans, owners, milestones, and shipped product
• Ability to quickly learn a highly niche / complex domain
• Experience managing product teams, engineering teams, or cross-functional technical teams
• Excellent communication and people leadership skills
• Comfort partnering closely with founders while progressively taking ownership of product strategy and roadmap
Ideal backgrounds
• VP Product / CPO at a technical B2B SaaS company.
• GM of a complex technical product line.
• Product leader who has managed a team or product function end to end
• Former technical or product founder who scaled into executive leadership
• Bonus points for experience in energy, grid infrastructure, climate, utilities, transmission, interconnection, or power markets
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