Senior Software Product Manager

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com

Job Overview

At Mainspring, Product Managers sit at the intersection of engineering, sales, marketing, installation, and maintenance to ensure that all of these elements come together to deliver successful products that maximize value for both customers and Mainspring.  Our ideal Senior Software Product Manager has a technical background and strong communication skills. They enjoy and excel at engaging with customers, engineers, technicians, and consultants to fully identify internal and external customer needs and translate them into technical specifications for Mainspring’s teams. This is a unique opportunity to be a pivotal player on a growing team making a direct impact on climate change.

• Collaborate with Software Engineering to develop applications and tools that power core product functionality, fleet operations, and internal processes
• Driving the end-to-end software product management lifecycle, from customer research and requirements gathering to roadmap creation, product development, release planning, and launch. This includes both proprietary applications and third-party integrations
• Working directly with Mainspring engineering to manage development of internal products for fleet operation and various other internal software tools to support commercial scale-up
• Leadership in the product development process, starting with discovering customer needs,  building stakeholder alignment on the vision for key elements of the user experience, and defining the product requirements.  Participate in product validation and customer follow-up to ensure those needs are met for both internal andexternal customers
• Leveraging software and data to optimize operations across R&D, manufacturing, and field deployment to enhance efficiency and scalability
• Partnering with Technical Program Managers to ensure effective feature prioritization and sprint processes for multiple distributed software teams

• Process-oriented with experience translating customer needs into engineering requirements, API specifications, and user stories for software development teams
• Experience collaborating with software engineering, hardware teams, and commercial stakeholders to develop and deploy technology solutions
• Strong communication skills and an ability to engage with stakeholders across multiple groups and levels within the organization
• Excellent analytical reasoning and organization skills with ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
• Bachelors of Science or higher in a technical field or demonstrated appreciation for and competency with complex systems and underlying tech-stacks.
• Experience with control systems and/or hardware-based products is a plus but not required

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.