Meet Lowell Bander

4 Companies | Climate Motivated | Energy and Grid

CANDIDATE BACKGROUND:

‍Lowell Bander, the self-proclaimed “newbie climate evangelist” was referred to us by another mission-driven recruiter. Lowell is coming out of a roll at a FAANG company where they have worked for the past 5 years. Lowell is highly skilled in PHP, Hack, JavaScript (React, Flow), SQL, GraphQL, Mercurial, HTML, CSS, etc., making them a highly desired candidate for many of our clients.

CHALLENGE‍

We classify Lowell as a Persona One candidate, meaning they knew exactly how and where they wanted to be involved in climate solutions.

Their resume explicitly stated “I’m a full-stack, product-minded engineer looking for a remote role on a small, thoughtful team working to directly address climate change. I’m most interested in accelerating the deployment of renewable energy, using software.”

This is not necessarily a challenge for Climate People, more so one for Lowell in their extensive job search. Lowell needed a guide to help navigate their job search to prevent two possible consequences:

1. Becoming inundated with too many interviews/opportunities

2. Losing sight of their initial desires and accepting a role that didn’t meet their requirements

APPROACH:

Lowell was referred to our founder and CEO, Brendan after they had already begun interviewing. Given Lowell’s impressive background, we knew that urgency was of the essence.

Brendan quickly got Lowell out to interviews with two of our clients. Over the span of one month, Lowell had nearly made it to the offer stage with four separate companies. Lowell had to work with Brendan on some reprioritization to ensure they were not getting burned out from the process.

The Climate People team remained in close contact with Lowell to ensure that we were not only accounting for their requirements but making it a smooth and stress-free process as they were balancing so much.

RESULT:

Lowell has accepted a role as a Software Engineer at Lumen Energy where they will use their niche skillset to address inefficiencies in the energy and grid sector.

Lumen is a pre-seed funded start-up based in the Bay Area that makes it possible for millions of buildings to benefit from clean energy technologies that are both profitable and open society’s door to a sustainable future. Lumen Energy empowers commercial building owners to generate new income from clean energy with precision, speed, and simplicity across their entire portfolio.

• Learn more at getlumen.com.

Lowell is excited to jump in head first and use their software abilities to drive a direct impact on climate. They hope their story will inspire other like-minded engineers to join the fight!

LOWELL’S ADVICE FOR OTHERS:

• Work with a niche recruiter

• Join Work on Climate and My Climate Journey and network within their communities.