Technical Product Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Peak Energy

Job Title: Technical Product Manager

Group: Product Team

Reports To: Head of Product

Location: Burlingame, California

Position Type: Full-time, Onsite/Hybrid

About Peak Energy

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 Role - Technical Product Manager

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.

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

What You'll Do (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

What You'll Bring (Qualifications)

• 2–8 years of experience in product management, technical program management, product development, consulting in a relevant field, or a closely related role
• Technical degree in engineering or related field
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing product requirements for a hardware product line
• 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
• 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

Peak Energy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and individuals from underrepresented groups to apply. We value skills, potential, and perspective over specific credentials. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't look perfect on paper, we still want to hear from you.

Our Core Values

• Speed Through Focus - Move fast but understand why. Focus on the goal, don't sacrifice quality.

• Mission Over Self - It's about the greater good; confident humility. Take ownership and accountability.

• Face the Brutal Truth - Transparency, honesty, big picture curiosity. Fearless decision making.

• Be a Good Person - Kindness, collaboration and teamwork.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $220,000 , 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

• Strong 401(k) plan

• Equity opportunities

• Many great work perks

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.