Financial Product Engineer

Overview

For every project entering Powertown's pipeline, ensure the economics work for Powertown, our members, and our capital partners. You will own the financial models that determine project viability, pricing, capital returns, and long-term profitability, and translate them into compelling financial products for the customer. As real projects are deployed, you will constantly test assumptions against operating data, refining how we install and price projects.

This role is also wildly creative. You will derive and execute a unique capitalization strategy for Powertown as we aim to solidify a first-mover advantage in the industrial battery market. The role includes the opportunity to become Powertown's long-term financial leader and ultimately CFO, leading the financial engine behind hundreds of deployments across a number of states.

Key responsibilities

• Translate complex project economics into a financial product that is extremely clear and compelling to prospective Powertown members

• Maintain our installation unit-cost model, comparing projections against real-world project data every week and identifying opportunities to reduce cost

• Work with the Head of Deployments to question and refine the economics of every installation and ensure operational decisions support durable project margins

• Derive and execute Powertown's capitalization strategy as we finance a growing portfolio

Must-have qualifications

• 2–6 years in finance, strategic operations, or operating finance at a deployment, field service, infrastructure, or logistics business, ideally with meaningful exposure to project-level economics

• Experience translating complex project economics for both customers and capital partners

• Strong financial modeling skills, particularly in Excel, with the ability to build project-level cash flow, IRR, pricing, forecast, and unit-economics models from the ground up

• A desire to understand the underlying operation, rather than treating the financial model as separate from what is actually happening in the field

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Working at a company such as Sunrun, Tesla Energy, Base Power, a distributed energy developer, a last-mile logistics business, or another company managing physical assets at scale

• Building financial systems during a period of rapid deployment growth