Product Lead – Asset Performance, Benchmarking

Role Overview

• Own and Evolve Aurora’s Asset Benchmarking Offering.
• Lead Aurora’s strategy for benchmarking BESS, solar, wind, and emerging asset classes.
• Define a compelling value proposition for asset owners, operators, investors, and optimisers.
• Develop a clear roadmap to deliver a scalable, global benchmarking product.
• Build a World-Class Product for Asset Owners & Operators.
• Design an intuitive, powerful user experience for comparing asset performance across portfolios, markets, and technologies.
• Ensure benchmarking outputs meet the highest standards of transparency, completeness, and analytical rigour.
• Collaborate with UX and engineering to deliver industry-leading visualisations.
• Develop the Global Asset Performance Data Foundation.
• Work with the Head of Data and data team to build the most comprehensive, accurate database of energy transition assets globally.
• Drive creative strategies for data acquisition, inference, and enrichment — especially in markets where transparency is limited.
• Ensure robust integration of operational data, market data, metadata, geospatial layers, and proprietary Aurora analytics.
• Integrate Historical Performance with Forecast Valuation.
• Partner with the product managers of Chronos, Amun, and Solaris to align benchmarking data with Aurora’s asset valuation outputs.
• Ensure users have a seamless, consistent view of both historical and future asset performance.
• Feed historical operational data into calibration workflows to improve the accuracy of Aurora’s analytical engines.
• Thought Leadership in Asset Performance, Especially BESS.
• Act as Aurora’s expert in battery performance, benchmarking methodologies, and optimiser behaviour.
• Work directly with optimisers and asset owners to iterate best practices for transparency and comparability.
• Contribute to Aurora’s market-leading research into BESS operations, degradation, revenue strategies, and market evolution.
• Cross-Functional Product Leadership.
• Lead a cross-company team spanning Engineering, Research, Data, UX, and Customer Success.
• Translate market needs into clear product requirements, technical specifications, and design briefs.
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of product increments in collaboration with dev teams.
• Support commercial teams with product narratives, demos, and client engagement.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of the energy transition asset landscape, with hands-on experience in BESS (analytics, optimisation, operations, investment, trading, or development).
• Strong familiarity with asset performance drivers: cycling patterns, degradation, dispatch strategies, market revenue streams, constraints, and operational KPIs.
• Experience leading large, complex, cross-functional initiatives — ideally in a product context.
• Ability to turn ambiguous market problems into clear product architectures and roadmaps.
• Comfort balancing speed, quality, and analytical precision.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with data-driven products, quantitative outputs, and multi-layered datasets.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering, data science, data engineering, and UX teams.
• Strong intuition for how to present and visualise complex performance metrics clearly.
• Curious, analytical, and deeply plugged into market developments.
• Motivated to push boundaries in a fast-evolving field.
• Excited to build something from the ground up at scale.

Benefits

• Ownership of a flagship, strategically important product area.
• Opportunity to shape the industry’s standard for asset performance intelligence.
• High visibility and direct impact across Aurora’s product and research portfolio.
• A collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on transforming the global energy transition.
• A fun, informal, collaborative, and international work culture.
• A competitive salary package.
• Access to regular coaching and mentoring sessions, and the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Dental Insurance.
• Parental Support.
• Salary-Exchange Pension.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Local Oxford Discounts.
• Cycle-to-work Scheme.
• Flu Jabs.