Manager, Senior Manager, or Director, Power Resources (PowerSIMM), Boulder, CO (Hybrid or Remote)

The Power Resources Manager will lead the growth, evolution, and delivery of Ascend Power Procurement (APP) - Ascend's flagship power procurement platform serving utilities, corporates, and other large energy buyers. This role sits at the intersection of product leadership, commercial support, and execution, ensuring APP continues to scale as a best-in-class SaaS platform while delivering analytically rigorous, defensible procurement outcomes for clients.

This role is critical to scaling Ascend Power Procurement as both a standalone SaaS platform and a services-enabled procurement solution, ensuring that technology, analytics, and execution remain tightly integrated as the business grows. The role will own the APP product vision and roadmap, support business development efforts with utilities and corporate customers, and lead the delivery of procurement engagements enabled by APP and PowerSIMM™. This role requires close collaboration with software engineering, product management, PowerSIMM analysts, and client-facing teams to ensure seamless integration between technology, analytics, and services.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Growth & Commercial Support

• Lead the growth of Ascend Power Procurement (APP) by supporting the business development team in securing new projects, with a primary focus on utilities and corporate energy buyers.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for APP in client discussions, proposals, and product demonstrations, articulating the platform's value proposition and differentiators.
• Partner with sales and account teams to shape commercial strategies for SaaS subscriptions and services-enabled procurement offerings.
• Drive alignment between platform capabilities and analytical methodologies used in PowerSIMM™-based evaluations.

Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership

• Own and lead the APP product roadmap, translating business, client, and market needs into a clear, prioritized development plan.
• Continuously assess how APP must evolve to support new procurement structures, regulatory requirements, and customer use cases.
• Balance short-term commercial needs with long-term platform scalability and product vision.

Engineering & Product Execution

• Coordinate closely with software engineering teams to define technical requirements, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria for new APP features.
• Act as a bridge between commercial users, analysts, and engineers to ensure requirements are clearly defined and technically feasible.
• Support product management and participate in quality assurance (QA) efforts to validate new functionality prior to release.

Client Implementation & SaaS Delivery

• Support the client implementation phase for APP Software-as-a-Service contracts, ensuring smooth onboarding, configuration, and adoption.
• Partner with internal teams to establish best practices for client enablement, training, and ongoing platform support.
• Act as an escalation point for complex client or implementation issues related to procurement workflows.

Procurement Project Delivery & Team Leadership

• Lead the delivery of power procurement projects for services clients utilizing APP, ensuring high-quality, timely, and defensible outcomes.
• Manage and guide teams of PowerSIMM™ analysts responsible for economic modeling, bid evaluation, and portfolio analysis.
• Ensure analytical rigor, transparency, and consistency across all procurement engagements supported by APP.

Key Qualifications

Required

• 6+ years of experience in power procurement, power markets, resource planning, or energy analytics.
• Direct experience with utility or corporate power procurement processes, including RFP/RFO design, bid evaluation, and contract execution - or equivalent experience on the consulting or advisory side supporting utility or corporate procurement engagements.
• Strong working knowledge of power market economics and valuation methodologies.
• Proven experience managing and developing teams, including analysts or cross-functional project teams.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading a SaaS product roadmap, including defining requirements, prioritizing development, and coordinating with engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to engage senior client stakeholders and internal leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field.

Preferred

• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) in a related field.
• Utility resource procurement experience (from the buyer side).
• Hands-on experience with stochastic modeling platforms such as PowerSIMM™ or Plexos.
• Background in technology-enabled services in the energy sector.
• Familiarity with evolving procurement structures, including renewable energy, storage, and hybrid resources.
• Experience supporting business development efforts, including proposals, pricing, and client presentations.

Key Success Metrics

• Successful APP platform growth, including new SaaS contracts and expanded client adoption.
• On-time, high-quality delivery of power procurement engagements for services clients.
• APP product roadmap delivery, including on-time feature releases and client-validated improvements.
• Client satisfaction and retention across SaaS and services-enabled procurement engagements.

Our Values @ Ascend

Ascend Analytics promotes a culture of teamwork, inclusion, work-life balance, creative thought, and learned ideas. We operate by five core pillars:

• Integrity: We act with honesty and uphold the highest ethical standards, doing the right thing even when it's difficult.

• Purpose Driven: We are united by a shared purpose - to deliver meaningful impact for our customers, our industry, and the energy transition to a low carbon future.
• Belonging: We foster a respectful, inclusive environment where everyone is valued, diverse perspectives are embraced, and equitable opportunities are provided for all.
• Innovation: We anticipate and address new challenges, embracing change and continuous improvement
• One Team Mindset: We collaborate across teams and functions, supporting one another and prioritizing shared success over individual wins.

Your Value @ Ascend

We offer competitive compensation - calibrated to your experience and structured to grow with you - along with a comprehensive benefits package:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Parental leave for growing families.
• FSA, HSA, and dependent care accounts.
• 401(k) with 3% non-elective contribution.
• Flexible PTO to take time when you need it.

Join a team that values your work, supports your growth, and invests in your future!

We offer a competitive salary range of $140,000-$200,000 USD Annually. Compensation is flexible and will be tailored to your experience and background - we're proud to offer pay that is often above industry average. But the perks don't stop there - we're committed to creating a workplace where people can do meaningful work, grow their careers, and still have a life outside the office. You'll enjoy flexible work hours, a collaborative environment, and real opportunities for advancement.

Collaboration is in our DNA, and we thrive on the energy of working together - the spontaneous ideas, face-to-face teamwork, and culture you can only build in a room.

But we also value the focus and freedom that remote flexibility brings. That's why our Boulder, CO office runs on a hybrid schedule (3 days in-office, 2 days remote). We prefer candidates who can work from Boulder HQ, though we're open to strong remote candidates as well.