Technical Partner Manager

Light; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company in Austin is seeking an experienced technical partner manager to lead partner implementations and ensure successful integrations with its API platform. This high-impact role requires 5-7 years of experience in technical roles, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly. You will work closely with partners and internal teams to optimize technical collaborations and drive the success of partner energy programs.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience in technical or solutions roles.
• Ability to read code and navigate API architecture.
• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own partner launch implementations and manage technical relationships.
• Act as technical subject matter expert for the platform.
• Optimize feedback loops between partners and product teams.

Skills

Technical aptitude

Project management

Communication

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Tools

SQL

Job description

About Us

The world is electrifying. As we plug in more devices and services, we need new ways to connect to power.

The traditional, one-size-fits-all utility approach — with complicated bills and frustrating customer service — no longer works. At Light, we make it easy to get affordable, renewable electricity by embedding power with the products that consumers already use, from the companies they love.

Light’s mission is to power a sustainable and abundant energy future for everyone. With Light's utility-as-API platform, companies from automakers and solar providers to real estate and beyond can offer their own, integrated electricity plans.

Imagine purchasing an electric vehicle that includes unlimited home charging, or solar panels that come bundled with any excess energy you might need from the grid. At Light, we're creating a flexible future where any company can offer their own branded electricity plans and make clean energy convenient for their customers.

Join us in building the digital energy infrastructure for a dynamic, sustainable future.

The role

You’ll roll up your sleeves alongside the founders and early team to help build how our partners implement, launch, and scale their energy programs.

Your mission is to own our partners’ successful technical engagements with Light– from hands‑on initial implementation through to deeper integrations and long‑term growth. You will serve as the primary technical point of contact and trusted advisor for our Partners. You will also be a "bridge" between our partners’ developers and our own product and engineering teams, building a successful feedback loop to make sure our programs launch seamlessly, perform exceptionally, and expand. You’ll work with Light’s Partner Success team and our partners’ teams to align priorities, drive impact, and build the systems that make our partner motion scalable and repeatable.

This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role where you’ll combine creative problem solving, product solutioning, project management, and strategic thinking to shape how Light—and our partners—succeed and grow.

In your first six months, you will:

• Own partner launch implementations: Act as the technical primary for new partners, moving them from contract to “first customer” with urgency. You will manage the technical relationship, advise on and review their integration, and execute the hands‑on technical setups for each new partner.
• Accelerate partner development on Light’s platform: Act as the technical subject matter expert for Light’s platform. You will proactively unblock partner developers, troubleshoot complex integration issues, and update the “how‑to” resources (guides, code snippets, FAQs) that accelerate development on our APIs.
• Optimize the feedback loop between partners & Product: Capture nuanced feedback from the field and translate partner experience into product feedback to influence our roadmap, while also effectively communicating our product vision back to our partner developers and users.
• Own complex, multi‑stakeholder technical projects: Coordinate across Light’s teams and partner teams to deliver on technical initiatives such as new hardware/device connections or major API updates.
• Define & measure partner technical success: Consistently re‑define and improve upon what a “healthy” integrated solution looks like, including setup, time, workflows, and level of effort for integration. Proactively identify potential API issues that could affect partners.

You would describe yourself as:

• Technically savvy, can read code, navigate API architecture, energized by building modern products, and comfortable using tools like SQL to troubleshoot.
• A strong communicator, who can translate technical concepts into clear actions and lead a room of diverse stakeholders through complex technical topics.
• An analytical problem solver, who spots issues, uncovers root causes, and uses data to troubleshoot issues, prioritize effectively, and influence decisions.
• An outcome‑oriented project manager, bringing extreme clarity, focus, and follow‑through to complex workstreams, ensuring no ball is dropped.
• Entrepreneurial, who navigates ambiguity with ease and can build in a dynamic environment.
• Experienced and in Austin, 5‑7+ years of experience (ideally in technical or solutions roles) and the ability to work 5 days per week in office.