Hardware Product Lead - AI Builder - Home Energy Products

Hardware Product Lead - AI Builder - Home Energy Products

Reports to: SVP, Product
Location: Onsite in Littleton, CO

Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app.

With over 400,000 U.S. homes running Emporia’s energy management and EV charging hardware, we are now launching a national Third-Party Owned (TPO) home battery Virtual Power Plant — placing industrial-rated home batteries in residential homes to deliver power redundancy, utility cost savings, and grid peak demand services. By reducing energy waste and saving customers money, we’re helping create a healthier planet and a brighter future.

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Emporia was founded in 2018 with a clear purpose to revolutionize home energy, generate tangible customer savings, and accelerate the transition to a lower carbon future. We are striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant.

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Emporia's home energy products are already in hundreds of thousands of homes: our Level 2 EV chargers, the Vue Energy Monitor, and the Smart Plug. They earn revenue today, they sit in competitive categories, and they carry the install base everything else builds on. This role owns all three.

This is not a new-product job. The work is keeping a mature portfolio healthy, competitive, and profitable: field quality, cost, supply continuity, incremental revisions, and the eventual end-of-life call. The Product Lead is the DRI, the single-person decision maker for product definition, development, and launch. They do not necessarily do all the work, but they ensure the work gets done. Where this description says "own," it means accountable for the decision and the outcome, not doing the work alone.

On this portfolio that means every change that ships, from a firmware release to a board revision to a price move. Operations and Sustaining run field service, RMA processing, and production; you own the product decisions behind them.

You report to SVP Product. Revisions and new SKUs still move through the same product development lifecycle (PDLC) as any new product, just in shorter cycles. We move quickly by being disciplined, not by skipping process. The same stage-gates and deliverables stay in place: PRD, PCD, business case, design reviews, launch readiness. AI should accelerate the work to be done and minimize and remove hand offs along the way.

Own the roadmap across all three lines and the prioritization between them.

• Own the roadmap for EVSE, Vue, and Smart Plug, and make the call on where effort goes when all three want the same engineering…