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Client

WaterGenius, Inc​

Product

Big Data, Utilities, Business Intelligence.

Goals

In June 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown ordered residents of California to cut water use by 25 percent due to the historic drought that hit the state. WaterGenius realized that it would take more than passing legislation to offset the problem, and they decided to create an incentive-based initiative that will encourage residents to do their part. Thus, WaterGenius and WaterGenius Challenge were born.

Overview

WaterGenius Challenge is an extension of WaterGenius application platform (Case Study). WaterGenius Challenge empowers employers to encourage their employees to signup and compete on saving water. Users would take recommended actions to accrue points that can later be redeemed for rebates on home improvement products that are aligned with saving water usage.

Use Cases

A powerful algorithm with API integrations and extensive data points enables users to register as part of a team for their company with a unique code at WaterGenius Challenge, enter their city and local water utility.

They are then taken to their personalized challenge screen where the top—”Record and Reward”—section is dedicated to recording each user’s 

completed projects and actions. This section is the home for displaying gallons of water saved and points earned by the user by completing the projects and actions. The bottom—”Project Recommendation”—section is dedicated to home improvement project recommendations that are geared to savings in water and utility bills.

Record & Reward

This is the top section of the user’s personalized challenge screen which is dedicated to recording each user’s completed projects and actions as well as displaying the points accrued and gallons saved by completing the projects and actions.

1. Projects

Challenge participants are recommended take on 5 projects they can take on their house to save water. The projects include landscape upgrade, toilet upgrade, shower-head upgrade, dishwasher upgrade and clothes washer upgrade.

Each project has assigned points that users can earn by completing these projects. Unlike actions, projects are taken on only once.

2. Actions

Users can mark any of the recommended projects as complete simply by checking them off. Then, users are prompted to upload a photo evidence of before and after to prove the completion of the project.

There are five recommended home improvement projects that aim to save water. Designed with scale in mind – the campaign manager can add, delete and edit recommended projects from the back-end at any time. Each of them is a one-time home improvement project that users undertake that will be checked off only once by the user.

3. Rewards

Individual projects and actions are assigned points that users will be able to accrue by completing them. The points are then displayed on each user’s personalized challenge screen. Points have redeemable value for product purchases through rebates or discounts.

Our algorithm calculates a number of gallons that have been saved by completing a specific recommended project or action, which is then displayed on each user’s personalized challenge screen.

Project Recommendations

This is the bottom of user’s personalized challenge screen which is dedicated to home improvement project recommendations that are geared to saving water and utility bills. Each of the recommended projects has an overview, rebates, a list of relevant products, a list of home improvement professionals, a powerful personalization feature, as well as a dynamic savings amount per year.

Products

Each project leverages third-party API integrations with home improvements product retailers, such as Home Depot and Lowes, to list relevant products, images, pricing, as well as rebates and store comparison within the same space.

Professionals

Each project also leverages a third-party API to display a location-based list of home improvement professionals that can help the user with the project, including their contact information and website.

Personalization

All five projects are highly customizable based on household size, amount of project items in the house, items that need replacement, and unique user behavior of the household.

Cost Savings

Our algorithm undertakes a series of intricate calculations across data points based on location, utility rate, season, household properties and user behaviors to provide the user with the amount of savings per year if a user takes on a specific project.

Campaign Owener

The campaign admin panel is where we see the real power of the platform, with a simple and intuitive design. The WaterGenius Challenge campaign manager can log in to visualize, analyze and extend the power and scale of the challenge to any level without compromising the design functionality.

Import CSV

Import CSV enables managers to update the database with updated info about cities, rebates, utility rates, water sewer rates, county info and other data that will affect the calculation of the entire platform.

Professionals

As a redundancy for home improvement professionals, this feature enables the manager to upload a backup of professional data in the event of third-party API technical issues that are beyond the control of WaterGenius.

Products

As a redundancy for recommended product listings, this feature enables the manager to upload a backup of product data in the event of third-party API technical issues that are beyond the control of WaterGenius.

Companies

This section is where the manager will be able to track activities of the challenge, gallons of water saved by each company, points earned by each company, review user-submitted evidence photos and approve completed projects.

Projects

The scalability of the platform is well-portrayed in this section, where the manager is able to view and edit project details, as well as add and delete existing projects.

Actions

Another feature that enables the manager to scale the campaign. The manager can view and edit action details, frequency, and points. The manager can also delete an existing action.

Locations

With an office in the heart of SF’s Financial District, working at deBreeze is more than just a job. A block from the Powell St BART station, the location embodies easy transportation and numerous attractions. It’s ideally located within walking distance of Union Square, the Bay Bridge, and a number of shops, cafés, and restaurants. Pay us a visit any time!

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Jr. Product Manager, San Francisco

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of developers, designers, operations, marketing, local markets. Assist in driving product definition, strategy, and long term vision for initiatives across audiences.
  • Drive new feature development from start to finish
  • Research, usability studies, data-driven experiments to inform product direction
  • Monitor and measure success metrics after launch. Consistently integrate behavior data and customer feedback into key product decisions.
  • Communicate product plans, benefits and results to all audiences – within teams, company, to users, press etc.

 

About You

  • Natural ability to make stuff happen around you through influence. You handle chaos, ambiguity and complexity, in a detailed, organized way
  • Great product instincts balancing user and business needs
  • End-to-end shipping highly successful consumer tech products
  • Clear and concise written and oral communication skills
  • Experience analyzing and using data to inform decisions
  • 2+ years of product management experience. Additional engineering or design experience is a plus!

 

Nice to Haves

  • CS degree or coded production-level web/mobile apps in the past
  • Experience starting/scaling a startup from the ground up
  • Strong interest in logistics, online-to-offline, on-demand services, transportation, marketplaces

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Interaction Designer, San Francisco

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Sketch user scenarios and user interfaces to help conceptualize user experiences
  • Create conceptual diagrams, workflows, use cases, personas, and storyboards
  • Lead ideation sessions with cross-functional team
  • Quickly iterate designs integrating user feedback
  • Wireframe and UI prototype for web, mobile, and voice

 

About You

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or related field
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
  • Empathize with users and uncover latent needs
  • Synthesize and simplify data for sharing
  • Wireframe and UI prototype for web, mobile, and voice
  • Understand research insights & translate them into design

 

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something, everyone, at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer-obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Visual Designer, San Francisco

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Contribute towards the visual design of key features/components of the product experience
  • Work within a team to create new concept ideas and see them through to product execution
  • Take strategic design direction and tasks from design lead to produce high quality visual design artifacts including detail level GUI design specifications
  • Innovate on current design systems and bring future-forward ideas to new product categories within visual display and mobile services
  • Contribute to the design language and follow design guidelines and standards
  • Partner with interaction, motion, other visual designers, and prototypers to design, build, and extend user experiences

 

About You

  • Solid formal academic background in visual design, graphic design, HCI, related field, or commensurate work experience; advanced degree or interaction design experience is a plus
  • 5-7 years of demonstrable experience working as a visual or product designer within a technology company
  • Strong product design experience from concept to execution
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work within technical constraints

 

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something, everyone, at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Software Architect, Montenegro

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Fostering team commitment to tasks and influence key people inside and outside of the group
  • Communicating based on the audience (i.e. eliminating technical jargon when needed or deep diving into technical details with the development team)
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, building relationships and achieving results without a direct reporting relationship
  • Grasping a range of functional and non-functional requirements to understand an application scope and define the right architecture, including solution components and interactions
  • Architecting and designing cross-industry business solutions using industry-leading practices in technology, performance and scalability
  • Evaluating, defining, and when necessary prototyping and guiding development teams in a hands-on manner on alternatives to determine the most appropriate approach for each solution

 

About You

  • Web-based systems architecture
  • Web technologies (MERN stack)
  • Current agile methodologies, specifically scrum
  • Service-based architecture including microservices, enterprise application architecture
  • Managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
  • Node.js, React.js, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Angularjs, yeoman, d3js, JQuery
  • Data architecture, data modeling and data management across relational, columnar and NoSQL

 

Nice to Haves

  • CS degree or coded production-level web/mobile apps in the past
  • Experience starting/scaling a successful startup from the ground up
  • Strong interest in logistics, online-to-offline, on-demand services, transportation, marketplaces

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Full Stack Developer, Montenegro

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Expertise in at least one scripting language such as Python, Perl, or TCL.
  • 3+ years application development (AngularJS, NodeJS, ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML5, etc)
  • Experience with RESTful API usage and development
  • Good understanding of at least one web framework (Django, Flask, Rails, etc)
  • Experience with version control (i.e. git, svn)
  • SQL, no-SQL database experience
  • Test driven development
  • ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
  • Application container deployment with Kubernetes, Docker
  • CI/CD tools – GitLab, TeamCity
  • Splunk
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Knowledge or interest in learning CPU architecture and debug

 

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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IOS Developer, Montenegro

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Participate in code development from requirements throughout the deployment
  • Collaborate with Engineers, UX and Product Design to define, design and ship new features
  • Participate in software code reviews to ensure the creation of high quality, compact code
  • Unit-test developed code for usability, general reliability and elegance
  • Make disciplined use of git source control and bug tracking systems
  • Contribute exceptional skills to develop highly innovative consumer mobile products

 

About You

  • Expertise in Swift and developing native iOS apps
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics
  • Strong CS fundamentals
  • 5+ years of commercial experience in developing applications for the iPhone and iPad
  • Strong knowledge of MVC, OOP, memory management and threading
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
  • Proven successful track record showing an aptitude for engineering and product sense
  • Possess the passion to design, build and polish innovative applications

 

Nice to Haves

  • CS degree or coded production-level web/mobile apps in the past
  • Experience starting/scaling a successful startup from the ground up
  • Strong interest in logistics, online-to-offline, on-demand services, transportation, marketplaces

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Android Developer, Montenegro

You’ll work among engineers, designers, and operators in a fast-growing environment. The role demands a mix of great technical depth, principled thinking and well-honed product judgment. Given the three-sided nature of our business, this leader will not have the luxury of having tunnel-vision for any one area; rather, you will need to think holistically and understand the business deeply to set the right long term strategy for the company.

What You’ll Do

  • Combining Kotlin and modern tools with principles of functional reactive programming and MVVM architecture to build clean, easy to maintain applications driven by server-side business logic
  • Building robust mobile front-end components with a focus on flexible theming and reusability
  • Leveraging tools including Retrofit, Room, RxJava, and Android Architecture Components and continually evaluating new options for an improved development experience and final product
  • Collaborating closely with our in-house Graphic Design team to produce beautiful and functional experiences
  • Having employees develop and test on their choice of operating system

 

Why You’ll Love Working at deBreeze

  • We are leaders – Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at deBreeze embraces and embodies.
  • We are doers – We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do — on every project, every day.
  • We are learning – We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
  • We are customer obsessed – Our mission is to grow and empower local economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and believe in connecting people with possibility.
  • We are all deBreeze – The magic of deBreeze is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
  • We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.

deBreeze is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance deBreeze will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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