Department: Software Solutions

Location: Oxford, UK

Description

Aurora is expanding its asset benchmarking capabilities to create the industry’s most trusted performance intelligence for energy transition assets. We are looking for a Product Lead – Asset Performance & Benchmarking to build and scale a world-class benchmarking product for asset owners, investors, and operators across technologies — with an immediate focus on batteries.

This is a strategic, cross-functional product leadership role that brings together domain expertise, data strategy, design, and software execution. You will own our benchmarking offering end-to-end: defining the vision, shaping the product roadmap, building the data foundation, ensuring best-in-class visualisation, and driving thought leadership in a rapidly evolving market.

You will work closely with engineering, research, UX, commercial teams, and the product managers for our asset valuation tools - Chronos, Amun, and Solaris - to deliver a comprehensive asset analytics toolkit seamlessly integrating historical asset performance and forward-looking valuation metrics.

Key Responsibilities

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

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Domain Expertise

• 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

Product & Leadership Skills

• 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

Technical & Analytical Strength

• 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

Mindset

• 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

What we offer

• 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

Some of the benefits we include are:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Parental Support
• Salary-Exchange Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Local Oxford Discounts
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Flu Jabs

At AER, we are committed to offering flexibility in the way we work. Most of our roles are hybrid with a mix of in-office/home working and potentially adjustable working hours. Let’s discuss what works for you and AER during the interview process.

The Company is committed to the principle that no employee or job applicant shall receive unfavourable treatment on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity.

To apply, please submit your Résumé / CV, a personal summary, your salary expectations and please inform us of your notice period.

Unfortunately, we are unable to accept applications via email, telephone, or social media platforms. To be considered for this position, please submit your application using the link provided. Applications submitted through any other channel will not be reviewed.