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Techno-Economic Product Manager
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Peak Energy
Job Title: Techno-Economic Product Manager
Location: Burlingame, CA
Group: Product Team
Reports to: Head of Product
Position Type: Full-time
About the Company
Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven Sodium-Ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid.
Sodium-Ion is cheap, readily available and safe, making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market.
Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners such as TDK Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.
We are a team of engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, and partners driven by a shared ambition to set the new performance standard for renewable energy and grid resilience.
About the Job
• Own, build and maintain detailed cost and application-level performance models for utility-scale BESS from inputs to results and conclusions.
• Act as a key customer for Peak’s cell and system level performance models, collaborating with team members to guide Peak’s modeling efforts.
• Analyze product competitiveness by benchmarking Peak’s products against incumbent competitor offerings and emerging technologies
• Support product roadmap decisions by identifying market-driven design trade-offs (e.g., lifetime vs. capex, efficiency vs. size).
• Translate evolving energy storage market needs into technical product requirements.
• Conduct techno-economic assessments (e.g., TCO, LCOS, energy asset revenue generation, payback period) across various grid services and business models.
• Inform the definitions of Peak’s performance guarantees and product warranties.
• Monitor key energy markets (e.g., CAISO, ERCOT, ISO-NE, Australia, EU) to identify product-market fit opportunities and revenue potential.
• Provide technical insights to inform go-to-market strategies, RFP responses, and sales enablement materials.
• Track and synthesize relevant high-level updates to standards, regulations, and interconnection requirements that may impact product design or market access.
• Collaborate with finance, regulatory, and commercial teams to align technical product capabilities with broader business strategy.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Applied Physics, Energy Systems, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in energy storage, power systems, renewables, or grid-connected products.
• Strong grasp of BESS architecture, component functions, and system integration considerations.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical and economic concepts and learnings to executives and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with wholesale electricity markets and grid service use cases (e.g., frequency regulation, energy shifting, capacity).
Preferred Qualifications:
• Energy management system development experience.
• Familiarity with US diurnal energy markets and policies.
• Exposure to product management, product marketing, or technical sales support.
The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $210,000, with actual pay varying based on work location, experience, and skills. Our competitive benefits package includes flexible time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a strong 401(k) plan, and equity opportunities. Join us to thrive in a supportive environment while making a meaningful impact in the energy sector!
At Peak Energy Technologies Inc., we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes us a more capable, innovative, and competitive company. We welcome people who represent diversity in their backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Peak Energy Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, aiming to reach our company’s full potential by cultivating an inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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Technical Product Manager
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Job Title: Technical Product Manager
Group: Product Team
Reports To: Head of Product
Location: Burlingame, California
Position Type: Full-time, In-person
About the Company
Peak Energy is building the next generation of energy storage systems — purpose-built to deliver cheap, reliable power at scale. We're a rapidly scaling team tackling one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time: enabling grids to run on clean, dispatchable energy. Our flagship product is a DC-coupled battery energy storage system (BESS) using sodium-ion cells, and we're bringing to market a hard-coupled solar-plus-storage system that eliminates DC-DC conversion losses through direct FET-based string switching. We move fast, work on hard problems, and care deeply about getting the technical details right.
About the Job
We're looking for a Technical Product Manager to join the product team and own the intersection of product requirements, hardware specifications, and go-to-market configuration strategy. This is a role for someone who is genuinely comfortable going deep on technical content — reading through standards documents, interrogating engineering tradeoffs, and translating them into clear, actionable product requirements — while also thinking at the level of market positioning and product offering strategy.
You'll work closely with our engineering, commercial, and operations teams to define what we build and how we package it. You won't be managing external customer relationships day-to-day, but your decisions will directly shape what customers experience: what configurations are available, what certifications we hold, our strategy around power conversion and software, and how our product competes on technical merit in the markets we serve.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Requirements Definition
- Own and maintain detailed product requirements documents (PRDs) covering hardware specifications, electrical and mechanical configurations, construction and installation requirements, and operational capabilities
- Define requirements across energy and power dimensions — including power constraints, round-trip efficiency, auxiliary load budgets, and thermal operating envelopes
- Translate market, regulatory, and customer input into clear engineering requirements and acceptance criteria
- Track and maintain Peak's certification and compliance roadmap across relevant standards (e.g., UL 9540, IEC 62933, IEEE 693, NEC Article 706)
- Work with engineering to evaluate tradeoffs in hardware design decisions and ensure requirements reflect real-world deployment constraints
Product Offering Strategy
- Define and maintain Peak's inverter compatibility matrix — identifying target integration partners, characterizing interface requirements (communication protocols, control modes, grid-forming capability), and driving qualification processes
- Help shape Peak's EMS offering strategy — defining integration requirements, characterizing how EMS capabilities should be packaged and positioned, and ensuring our product works seamlessly within customers' control environments
- Contribute to competitive analysis of BESS products, focusing on technical differentiation: system architecture, performance specifications, integration flexibility, and certification status
- Support product roadmap planning with well-reasoned recommendations grounded in technical and market analysis
- Work across teams to ensure product configuration options are well-documented, manufacturable, and commercially coherent
- Contribute to the development of Peak's long-term service agreement (LTSA) and service contract strategy — including what commitments we make on performance, availability, and maintenance, and how service offerings are structured and priced
Required Qualifications
- 2–5 years of experience in product management, technical program management, product development, consulting in a relevant field, or a closely related role
- Demonstrated experience in energy storage, grid-scale renewables, power electronics, or a related field — you need to be able to credibly engage with engineers on system-level technical questions
- Strong written communication skills — you can write a tight PRD, a clear competitive brief, or a well-structured strategy memo
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive decisions with incomplete information, while being honest about what you don't know
- Structured, analytical thinking — you approach product questions with rigor and don't make broad claims without backing them up
Desired Skills
- Hands-on experience with BESS procurement, project development, or system integration
- Familiarity with grid interconnection requirements, utility tariff structures, or wholesale energy market mechanics (ERCOT, CAISO, PJM)
- Exposure to relevant standards bodies or certification processes for electrical energy storage equipment
- Experience working with inverter manufacturers or EMS vendors on technical integration
- Background in a startup or high-growth hardware company
What We Offer
- A high-ownership role with direct influence over Peak's product strategy at a pivotal stage of company growth
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity — we want you to share in what we're building
- The opportunity to work on a genuinely hard technical problem with real infrastructure stakes
- A small, high-caliber team that values directness, technical depth, and getting things right
The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000, with actual pay varying based on work location, experience, and skills. Our competitive benefits package includes flexible time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a strong 401(k) plan, and equity opportunities. Join us to thrive in a supportive environment while making a meaningful impact in the energy sector!
At Peak Energy Technologies Inc., we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes us a more capable, innovative, and competitive company. We welcome people who represent diversity in their backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Peak Energy Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, aiming to reach our company’s full potential by cultivating an inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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