Technical Program Manager

About Us

Solar Landscape is the leading commercial and community solar developer in the United States. We partner with the world's largest real estate companies to develop, install, and operate solar projects on commercial and industrial rooftops. Through our groundbreaking community solar model, households in surrounding communities can subscribe to receive solar power at a guaranteed discount.

To date, Solar Landscape has deployed over 500 megawatts of renewable energy projects totaling over $1 billion in capital investment. Solar Landscape was named the #1 Distributed Generation developer for 2023 by New Project Media and was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s Equitable Community Solar Grand Prize.

For more about Solar Landscape, visit www.solarlandscape.com. 

About The Role

We're seeking a Technical Program Manager to support our entire software stack. The TPM will work across all departments to build the processes, notifications, automations, and safeguards necessary to get us to gigawatt scale. The TPM will take complex business requirements and create actionable plans, while ensuring our technology stack is scalable, maintainable, and secure. The TPM will be responsible for our cloud resource strategy as well.  

• Drive technical strategy across the technology team, supporting key decisions on internal software, tools, and cloud resources. 
• Collaborate closely with key internal stakeholders, understand requirements, and translate these into executable work items for our software teams to implement. 
• Define long-term goals for stability and performance including resource organization, software unification, security investments, and more. 
• Track progress on these initiatives with clear, reportable metrics. Support OKRs and KPIs for technology team. 
• Support the development of an end-to-end software stack that supports all facets of renewable energy generation. 
• Use Jira for task management to support efficient, transparent, and collaborative development cycles. 
• Oversee data quality, integrity, and security, ensuring compliance with company standards and industry regulations. 
• Stay current on emerging trends, technologies, and methodologies. 

• 2+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or a related field. 
• Experience leading projects end to end, with ownership of the technical vision and strategy. Experience with work across multiple, diverse stakeholders. 
• Familiarity with Cloud Resources (Azure, AWS, GCP), their functionality, tradeoffs, and cost. 
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams, including offshore developers. 
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex requirements into clear, actionable items and communicate findings effectively to diverse audiences. 
• Excellent planning, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. 
• Effective communicator comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams. 
• A passion for clean technology and using software to accelerate positive climate impact. 

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar field. 
• Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics 365, PowerApps, or related Microsoft data platforms. 
• Prior work in the energy, clean tech, or infrastructure industries. 

Benefits and Perks

Solar Landscape’s company culture is second to none. 

Our employees combine our mission, grit and drive with a rebel’s attitude that is changing the industry: 

·       Located in the heart of historic Asbury Park, our state-of-the-art office space offers flexible workstations encouraging collaboration and movement.  

·       Employees come together to eat every day! Like in a home, our gourmet kitchen is the heart of the office. Solar Landscape has a full-time in-house chef cooking daily farm-to-table meals using locally sourced organic food. 

·       Also included for employees is our competitive compensation package; a 401(k) employer-match; health, dental, & vision insurance, flexible paid time off and holiday PTO; We provide healthy snacks, coffee, volunteer opportunities, company outings, and more!