About Pearl Edison

Company

Pearl Edison is a software-enabled general contractor for complex residential electrification and energy efficiency projects. We operate a turnkey home concierge service for our partners - utilities, governments, green lenders, community organizations, environmental champions, and anyone that wants to make more of these projects happen. We help these partners enforce quality end-to-end and maintain the trust of their customers.

We’re building a game-changing software platform to manage electrification and energy efficiency projects end to end - from lead acquisition and qualification, to in-home data collection and diagnostic testing, to system design and project scoping, to post-install quality assurance. And we’re building a killer operations team - supported by that software platform - to deliver these projects. We’re growing fast, so the team is too.

We exist in service of homeowners. Electrification isn’t easy, even if you’re motivated - it’s a lot of work to figure out the right scope of work, ensure a quality system design, get a fair price, find a qualified installer, and ensure best-practice install and commissioning. We help.

We exist in service of our contractor partners - in particular, contractors who do great work and win on install quality. Customer acquisition is expensive. We send our partners fully contracted, fully designed jobs. We measure our success by their improved profitability.

We exist in service of our partners - in service of their mission to make more electrification projects happen, and their commitment to serving their customers well.

We’re fired up about our work because we have an opportunity to solve kitchen table problems for customers, help great contractors win, and dent climate change - win-win-win - at the same time, at scale.

Leadership

Pearl Edison was founded by Jake Yurek (CEO) and Evan Anderson (Product, Growth). You’ll meet both during the hiring process.

Our team brings diverse expertise, high energy, and a passion for the product we’re building and the problem we’re solving.

About the Role

Overview

Pearl Edison is hiring a Chief of Staff. You’ll function as an extension of the founders, serving as a key thought partner on important strategic questions and providing leverage on important operational tasks. As such, your success will be measured by the company’s achievement of enterprise goals, and by the delivery of special projects and tasks that support them.

You will be functionally responsible for business operations, including financial planning / analysis and the “operating cadence” of the company. You will also pick up important special projects that do not have a natural owner.

You’ll report to the Pearl Edison Co-Founders, Jake and Evan, depending on the nature of the task or project.

What you’re responsible for

Day-to-day, you will:

• Own and update the company’s operating financial model. Our decisions need to be grounded in a strong understanding of financial implications for our business - you’ll help ensure that they are.
• Run the “operating cadence” of the company. This refers to all of the interactions that make us a productive, cohesive team - annual and quarterly goalsetting, monthly and weekly planning and prioritization processes, all-hands meetings, team offsites, and more. It also includes keeping the founders and team accountable on important delivery timelines on more of an ad hoc basis, for high-priority growth-, customer-, and capital formation-related projects.
• Serve as a key thought partner to the founders on strategic questions. We’ll work together to identify the right strategic questions, and you’ll collect the relevant facts and insights and deliver a recommendation.
• Provide leverage on important operational tasks.
• Own a broad range of high-priority special projects from end-to-end, ranging from capital formation to new market prioritization to business intelligence.
• Solve the problem of the day when it falls outside of everyone else’s job description. Such is life for a CoS at a startup!

Apart from your day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll provide feedback and work with the Product, Design, and Engineering teams to make the software platform better - to support your work and produce better results for the homeowners and contractors we serve. Every team member at Pearl Edison shares this responsibility. We’re a software-enabled service, not software-as-a-service, and we’re only as good as our workflow - the platform we are building to streamline and enforce workflow, and our execution of workflow. You should feel personal responsibility for both.

What you’re accountable for

You’ll share in the founders accountability for Pearl Edison’s enterprise goals.

About You

As Chief of Staff at Pearl Edison:

• You are a structured thinker - a strong quantitative, analytical, and conceptual problem solver.
• You know how to build a financial model and draw the right insights from it.
• You can drive a project forward with limited input by asking the right questions at the right time. (The founders are busy.)
• You are an A+ communicator.
• You build strong relationships with teammates.
• You hustle. You work really hard. You probably want to be a founder. You are energetic, and you grind without someone looking over your shoulder.
• You are passionate about the mission of the company.

It’s a bonus if:

• You have experience at an early-stage startup.
• You have a management consulting or corporate strategy background - project management.
• You have a technical educational background.

Compensation

We provide:

• $120-160K base salary
• A competitive early-stage equity package. (If Pearl Edison does well, you’ll do well.)
• A company-funded healthcare allowance (QSEHRA)

Compensation may vary based on multiple individualized factors - particularly, relevant skills, experience, and knowledge.

We are open to fully remote candidates for this role, but would prefer a candidate in one of our home markets. We are a hybrid-remote company headquartered in Detroit, and we get together as a team semi-annually in Michigan. The founders travel - you’ll be expected to travel too.