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Electric Air

HVAC contractor installing residential heat pumps

Founding Growth & Brand Lead

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Redwood City, CA, USA
In Person
Growth & MarketingBrand & Creative Marketing, Growth Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience or demonstrated ability in growth, branding, creative judgment, operational execution, and customer research.
  • Ability to launch Meta campaigns, provide landing-page feedback, coordinate video shoots, improve attribution, organize homeowner events, and review installation photos for quality and consistency.
  • Ability to balance analytics with intuition and operate effectively in ambiguity while building systems from scratch.
  • Ability to work with homes, installations, neighborhoods, customers, trucks, events, photography, and physical products.
  • Ability to create premium, trustworthy, and modern brand experiences and distinguish tasteful marketing from generic contractor marketing.
  • Ability to work resourcefully within constraints and execute and ship work quickly.
Responsibilities
  • Manage and improve paid acquisition across Google, Meta, Local Services Ads, and other channels.
  • Improve landing pages, conversion funnels, and attribution.
  • Develop experiments to improve lead quality and customer acquisition cost.
  • Work closely with leadership to identify growth opportunities and bottlenecks.
  • Source and manage photographers, videographers, designers, freelancers, and agencies.
  • Maintain visual quality and brand consistency.
  • Help shape the voice, positioning, and identity of Electric Air.
  • Develop creative concepts for advertisements, videos, campaigns, social content, and physical-world branding.
  • Own and improve the website experience.
  • Create and iterate on landing pages.
  • Improve top-of-funnel conversion and attribution systems.
  • Work with engineers and contractors to ship quickly.
  • Support partnerships, events, workshops, and community presence.
  • Develop systems for reviews, referrals, and neighborhood density.
  • Turn real installations and customer experiences into compelling marketing.
  • Help communicate technical concepts simply and elegantly.
  • Build systems for collecting photos, videos, testimonials, and installation stories.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Google Ads, Meta Ads, or local acquisition.
  • Experience with conversion optimization and landing pages.
  • Experience directing creative production.
  • Experience with local search engine optimization or home services.
  • Experience working closely with founders or small teams.
  • Strong writing instincts.

About the company

Electric Air is a technology-enabled HVAC contractor focusing on residential heat pumps in the San Francisco Bay Area. It uses in-house engineers and technicians to design, quote, and install heat pump systems (ducted, ductless, and water heaters) from start to finish, with fast quotes generated by proprietary software after an online questionnaire. Pricing is flat and transparent, with financing and help securing rebates to lower upfront costs. The goal is to accelerate heat-pump adoption, reduce installation costs, and support home decarbonization by delivering end-to-end, engineered installations.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • October 2026 site claims 600+ installs and $3.5K average savings per home.
  • July 2026 pricing shows fixed-price installs and 24–48 hour virtual quotes, easing conversion.
  • BLOND's 2023 design work and 2024 merger sharpen the brand and product story.

What critics are saying

  • Electric Air reported only $130K seed funding, leaving little cushion against slow sales.
  • Competing HVAC firms and utilities can undercut pricing before Electric Air scales beyond Bay Area.
  • If 600-install momentum stalls, the combined company becomes an engineering-heavy contractor without venture returns.

What makes Electric Air unique

  • YC-backed, merged Electric Air and Helios Climate combine hardware, software, and contractor execution.
  • Electric Air runs its own crews, not a marketplace, controlling permits, pricing, and installs.
  • 2026 site shows 600+ installations, rare traction for a Bay Area heat-pump contractor.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation

401(k) Retirement Plan

Company Equity

Company News

Default News Insider
Dec 5th, 2023
Blond designs "attractive and desirable" heat pump system for Electric Air

London design studio Blond has worked with Electric Air to develop an elevated product design and visual identity for the start-up's heat pump system, in a bid to bring low-carbon heating and cooling to more US homes.

TechCrunch
Apr 5th, 2023
Our favorite startups from YC's Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1

Comics software, meat-based plants and Tesla spun-out heat pumps, anyone?