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31 Jan 2016

Full-Time Chief Technology Officer

Solstice Initiative – Posted by solsticeinitiative –  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Job Description

Overview: While solar has the potential to power households across the United States, approximately four out of five American households are effectively locked out of the market for it. With that in mind, the mission of Solstice Initiative is to radically expand access to clean energy in the United States. Solstice accomplishes this by providing community-based solar energy to the 90 million American households that cannot currently access it. This model enables any household to benefit from a portion of a shared solar farm somewhere in their neighborhood—no upfront cost or rooftop installation required.

Solstice Initiative has received a host of accolades since its inception in 2014. The social enterprise has received awards from Echoing Green, Princeton University, Halcyon Incubator, Global Good Fund, and Cleantech Open. Its work has also been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, and Fast Company and highlighted by the Obama White House.

We are a rapidly growing organization and are looking to fill the position below expeditiously.

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Compensation: Living stipend and/or equity

Term: 90 day probationary period, with opportunity to transition to permanent staff.

Position overview: Solstice Initiative is expanding its service offerings through the creation of a digital platform that will seamlessly manage all of the customer-facing activities in the community solar space: customer outreach and onboarding, utility integration, account management, and consumer engagement. The primary task of the CTO will be to manage the creation of this platform from conception to completion.

Minimum qualifications
• Passion for and working knowledge of renewable energy
• Amenable to the demands of a start-up environment, such as long and variable work hours, tight deadlines, and limited supervision
• Progress toward or attainment of bachelor’s degree
• Based in the greater Boston area

Additional qualifications for this role include:
• Expertise in and/or previous experience with both front- and back-end development of native mobile applications or responsive web design
• Fluency in consumer-facing programming languages, including HTML/CSS, Ruby, Java
• Ability to utilize graphics software to design and layout visual elements of platform
• Previous experience with managing software engineers and/or other staff
• Extraordinary attention to detail, creative, personable, enthusiastic, proactive, team-oriented

How to Apply

Please e-mail a cover letter and resume to [email protected].

Job Categories: Social Entrepreneurship. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: clean energy, engineer, platlform, software, Solar, and technology.

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