Energy Efficiency Specialist

Rappel; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option grant

Healthcare

Vision

Job summary

Rappel is seeking an Energy Efficiency Specialist to contribute to data analytics and customer delivery for commercial and industrial energy efficiency and decarbonization action planning. You will manage virtual walkthroughs, quantify energy and carbon impact, and integrate expertise into CO2-AIM, Rappel’s carbon and financial modeling platform.

The role involves cross-functional collaboration, design of scalable analysis methodologies, and continuous improvement of templates and data standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• 3+ years in energy efficiency planning, analytics, or implementation.
• Ability to consolidate insights into scalable tools.

Responsibilities

• Act as subject-matter expert in energy efficiency topics (HVAC, lighting, process heat).
• Define and prioritize product needs with leadership to enhance modeling quality.
• Design scalable analysis methodologies, data hierarchies, and fallback logic.
• Improve templates, walkthrough guides, and data standards used in delivery.
• Research new technologies and incentives for decarbonization.
• Collaborate with product, software engineering, and delivery teams.

Skills

Energy analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant industry

Tools

Python

R

Job description

The Energy Efficiency Specialist’s role is to contribute to data, analytics, and customer delivery of commercial and industrial energy efficiency and decarbonization action planning. This role will:

• Manage virtual facility walkthroughs with commercial and industrial customers to quantify energy and carbon impact of current systems, as well as energy efficiency and decarbonization opportunities
• Integrate energy efficiency subject-matter expertise into CO2-AIM, Rappel’s core carbon and financial modeling platform
• Support data processing, assumptions development, and QA to ensure analysis outputs are credible, consistent, and decision-ready

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with energy efficiency and industrial decarbonization and is excited by the challenge of turning practical insights into repeatable product logic.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as subject-matter expertise within energy efficiency topics such as HVAC, lighting systems, process heat, and other areas
• Work with Director of Carbon Intelligence and Analytics to define and prioritize product needs to enhance the quality of answers or create new insights across range of GHG inventory and decarbonization financial and carbon modeling
• Design analysis methodologies that balance technical rigor with scalability, including default assumptions, data hierarchies, and fallback logic
• Contribute to continuous improvement of templates, walkthrough guides, and data standards used in customer delivery
• Research emerging technologies, new levers, and incentives for facility and energy system decarbonization
• Contribute to external partnerships to improve quality of recommendations, implementation support, or other business development opportunities
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, software engineering, and delivery teams to ensure EE features are usable, accurate, and impactful

Desired Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant industry
• 3+ years of direct experience in energy efficiency planning, analytics, and/or implementation in manufacturing and industrial settings; commercial building experience a plus
• Financial and carbon data analysis experience, demonstrating an ability to consolidate insights and experience into scalable tools
• Demonstrated strong, independent organizational and process management across multiple workstreams and stakeholders, both internal and external
• Experience in product design or software development (Python, R) is a plus
• Experience with on-site energy audits is strongly encouraged
• Demonstrated active listening and proactive solutioning to identify customer pain points, and to ideate product features that address and resolve those pain points
• Proficient at combining and interpreting both qualitative and quantitative data to identify patterns and devise original solutions
• Able to independently prioritize tasks and take initiative to deliver results, even in the face of evolving demands and challenges
• Thrive in high performing team environment: clearly and confidently assert unique perspectives, proactively collaborate with team members, own individual workstreams while targeting and celebrating team success

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Employee stock option grant at early-stage, fast-growing startup
• Company-supported healthcare, dental, and vision