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Role

Natel Energy is seeking a part-time Marketing Associate to join our team! Natel is a technology and engineering company that designs high performance FishSafe hydropower turbines to support healthy rivers, promote biodiversity, and decarbonize the grid. You will join a fast-paced team working to accelerate the adoption of this innovative technology within the hydropower industry, particularly within the US, Canada, and Europe.

In your role, you will improve lead generation and drive customer engagement via digital marketing channels including social media and email marketing. You will be responsible for improving our CRM database through identifying prospective new customers in collaboration with our Sales team, and creating and maintaining targeted audience lists. You will craft creative, timely, authentic social media posts, judiciously targeted advertisements, and tailored email marketing campaigns that align with strategic in-person engagement opportunities led by our Sales team. 

You will work closely with the Marketing & External Affairs team and the Sales team to proactively and responsively test new strategies to promote Natel’s services, seeking to increase client touchpoints while reducing overhead for the Sales team. 

A successful candidate will be self-motivated, keen on database management, and an analytics nerd—constantly seeking to refine engagement outcomes based on campaign performance metrics and team feedback. Candidates should be creative and effective communicators, driven to address climate change and preserve biodiversity.

Responsibilities

• Craft original, authentic digital marketing content to engage with prospective hydro industry customers as well as with our partners in the scientific and environmental communities

• Execute targeted email marketing campaigns to drive sales engagement ahead of events

• Manage Natel’s LinkedIn presence including organic posts and targeted ads

• Grow and maintain audience lists within Natel’s CRM, including working to identify new audience members 

• Evaluate existing methods for engagement tracking and update and maintain tracking and reporting methods as needed

• Support the creation of digital and print marketing materials following Natel’s brand guidelines

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Engineering, Art, Design, or a related field 

• Excellent copywriting and editing skills, not reliant on the use of AI

• 2-4 years work experience in marketing, communications, design or a related field

• Experience describing technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences

• Proficient LinkedIn wizard, familiar with best practices for organic content and ads

• Familiarity with Hubspot or other, similar CRM

• Familiarity with or willingness to learn Webflow basics to make simple website updates

• Ability to do some lightweight photo, graphics, and video production and editing

• Strong appreciation for visual design including Natel’s existing brand and style 

• Ability to to rapidly learn new tools and concepts

Not Required, but Pluses:

• Work experience in renewable energy or hardware engineering 

• Local candidate who could be on site in Alameda 2+ times a month to film creative social media content

Compensation & Benefits

Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Compensation range for on site CA applicants is $40-$50/ hour, depending on experience and skills.

We offer vacation and sick time on a prorated basis informed by the part-time schedule.

We want our team to live full lives outside of work.

Location, Travel, Duration

In-person or remote with option of being based at Natel’s headquarters in Alameda, CA. We conduct business using technologies like Slack, Google Suite, Asana and video conferencing. Occasional travel may be required for team events. 

If remote, your workday must overlap by 5 hours with the Pacific Standard  time zone. 

This is a fixed-term part time position for 20 hours per week for one year.

Our hiring process

Natel Energy is committed to building, supporting, and growing a diverse team. We have a standardized interview process designed to reduce individual bias, and have structured pay scales to prevent inequity. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Role

Natel Energy is seeking a skilled and motivated turbine CFD design engineer to join our team! Natel Energy designs and tests high performance FishSafe hydraulic turbines, helping the hydropower industry modernize while preserving biodiversity. You will join an exciting and fast-paced team where we develop customized solutions for some of the largest turbines in the global fleet down to scale model performance test units.

You will help us achieve our goals of modernization, decarbonization, and biodiversity by designing and optimizing hydro turbine geometry from first principles through detailed CFD and, at times, through to physical scale model testing. You will work with other hydraulic design engineers at Natel to complete regular design deliverables for customers and partners, aid the commercial team with proposals, conduct R&D-related analysis and design work for test equipment, and improve and automate processes for increased throughput.

Prior experience in the hydro industry is a plus, but not required. A successful candidate will have a strong foundation of engineering fundamentals and systems design, with focused expertise in utilizing CFD to support system or product development. Candidates must be effective communicators, collaborators, and independent contributors. Candidates must also be creative and driven problem solvers, not satisfied with the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modern hydro turbine industry with design and analysis techniques to produce competitive, efficient, FishSafe, and manufacturable turbine and hydropower facility designs and upgrades.

• Utilize Siemens NX, STAR-CCM+, and other related tools as necessary for hydraulic turbine design, analysis, and optimization. Apply existing design and analysis workflows as well as develop new and improved methods and automations.

• Become an expert in Natel’s system and product design space. Understand tradeoffs in hydraulic design performance, cost, and mechanical + operational implications; interpret and apply customer and site design requirements along with performance and fish survival models and test data; recommend and deliver designs and associated documentation.

• Deliver results to clients and to the team efficiently and professionally. Propose and implement process and methodology changes to constantly improve quality and throughput. Document and report results in formats ranging from tabular data and figures to publication-worthy reports and presentations.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience in related role(s)

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in an applicable engineering discipline (mechanical, aerospace, etc)

• Competence with advanced CAD surfacing and parametric modeling techniques (preferably in Siemens NX)

• Competence in single and multiphase aerodynamic or hydrodynamic CFD meshing and analysis, preferably with complete turbomachinery or other rotating systems, preferably with STAR-CCM+

• Familiarity with data analysis and/or automation coding languages (eg. Python, Java)

• A motivation to apply your skills and knowledge in a fast-paced small team environment

• An organized and data-driven approach to problem solving

• Strong written and verbal communication skills: comfortable receiving as well as providing guidance and technical material from/to engineers, designers, technicians, and suppliers

• Confidence in working independently to drive a project forward

Not Required, but Pluses:

• Proficiency in Siemens NX surfacing techniques

• Expertise in STAR-CCM+

• Experience in the design or analysis of hydro turbines or pumps or turbomachinery in general

• Both Windows and Linux based HPC setup and job management experience

• Endorsements or certifications in applicable skill areas

Compensation & Benefits

Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, market location, business needs, other compensation components, and/or market demands. The starting base salary range for this role is  $120k-$170K. This range may be modified in the future.

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer equity to new employees and incentive compensation  based on team performance.

We are proud to offer great benefits like 4 weeks of paid vacation, 2 weeks of paid sick leave, and trans-inclusive health insurance plans (along with dental, vision and life insurance). We want our team to live full lives outside of work.

Location 

Natel is headquartered in Alameda, California with a mix of onsite and remote employees. If you have strong qualifications you are encouraged to apply, whether local or remote. Occasional travel may be required for team events, supplier site visits, field testing, or similar.

Our hiring process

Natel Energy is committed to building, supporting, and growing a diverse team. We have a standardized interview process designed to reduce individual bias, and have structured pay scales to prevent inequity. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.