Manager, Pricing Development & New Products
Qcells North America · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteMarketingFull-time
Responsibilities
- Pricing Development: Lead development, price setting, and launch of new TPO products, including a prepaid lease/PPA structured to capture domestic content incentives, a New Homes financing product, and pricing promotions for Qcells batteries and other hardware.
- Competitive Intelligence & Market Positioning: Conduct ongoing competitive intelligence across states and channels; monitor competitor pricing, products, and dealer incentive structures to inform strategic recommendations.
- Installer & Dealer Programs: Manage installer tiering and payment frameworks; design dealer-aligned incentive structures that build sticky relationships and support volume growth toward 51,000 households in 2026.
- New Homes & Emerging Channels: Lead pricing and bidding strategy for the New Homes channel; collaborate with BD and Sales to assess and enter new residential solar market segments.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & S&OP: Serve as a liaison between Capital Markets and the business for pricing inputs; participate in S&OP processes; partner with POS platform, capital raising, servicing, and portfolio management teams to ensure alignment across the business.
- Feature Testing & Process Quality: Support testing and validation of new platform features and pricing tools; ensure high-quality implementation and a world-class dealer and capital partner experience.
- Manage a small team within the Pricing Development function.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, or a related quantitative field with a minimum of 8+ years of professional work experience in financial analysis, pricing, or product development.
- Minimum of 3+ years work experience in a hands-on analytical role at an operating company.
- Minimum of 3+ years of work experience in people management, leading a team.
- At least 1 year of work experience in residential solar financing (lease, loan, or PPA structures).
- Strong financial modeling skills; demonstrated ability to build, maintain, and communicate complex pricing or analytical models clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to present complex pricing and product concepts clearly to executive, dealer, and capital partner audiences.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint).
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
- Self-motivated team player; able to manage multiple projects simultaneously under deadline pressure in a fast-growing environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or advanced degree.
- Direct experience with residential solar TPO structures (PPA, lease, prepaid lease), including familiarity with fund economics, capital partner requirements, and state-specific program rules (e.g., IL Shines, net metering, interconnection).
- Experience with capital markets' liaison functions, including pricing-to-fund economics translation, rate card submission processes, and S&OP participation.
- Prior experience launching new financial products or entering new geographic markets.
- Familiarity with new homes solar channels or ESS (energy storage) product development.