Director of Hardware Product

Jetson Home•Centennial, CO

3d•$215,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Jetson is a company focused on accelerating the transition of homes away from fossil fuels towards sustainable energy use, aiming for a 100% electric and better future. They are building the first fully vertically integrated home electrification company, making clean energy simple, transparent, and affordable. Technology, automation, and data are key to their operations. Jetson values employees who excel in their craft, are curious about new tools (including AI), and are motivated to improve work processes. This role is for a product leader to own Jetson's smart home hardware portfolio, including heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, EV chargers, home batteries, smart electrical panels, and connected appliances. The role involves owning the product strategy for all hardware brought into homes and building the team to deliver it, operating at the intersection of hardware, software, supply chain, field operations, and energy markets to establish Jetson as a trusted brand in whole-home electrification.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion spent bringing physical energy or electrification hardware to market (HVAC, heat pumps, water heating, battery storage, EV charging, or similar).
5+ years directly managing and growing product teams. You hire well, develop people, and raise the bar of those around you.
Proven ability to take products from zero to one and scale a portfolio — you've launched a product line and managed multiple products through their lifecycle at once.
Deep understanding of the residential energy ecosystem: how heat pumps, water heaters, inverters, batteries, panels, chargers, and grid interconnection actually work in a home.
Experience evaluating OEM partnerships and technology integrations — assessing technical specs, negotiating requirements, and managing vendor relationships at a senior level.
Comfort operating across hardware and software, with enough fluency in embedded systems, connectivity protocols, and cloud platforms to set technical direction and make informed tradeoffs.
Strong product principles and frameworks, disciplined prioritization, and fluency with modern tools, including AI, to make your team faster and sharper.

Nice To Haves

If you feel like you don't have everything that's listed above but can still do the job? If you have the core skills and experience that we're looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities

Own the multi-year hardware roadmap across all of Jetson's product lines — heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, EV chargers, batteries, smart panels, and the software platform that orchestrates them. Decide what we bring to market and in what order.
Set the build vs. buy vs. partner strategy for each category, and develop the business case behind it: market sizing, competitive positioning, unit economics, and margin targets.
Manage, coach, and grow a team of hardware product managers spanning Energy Systems, NPI program management, and technical product, and scale the org as the portfolio expands.
Set the operating rhythm: how the team prioritizes, writes requirements, runs stage gates, and makes decisions with speed and rigor. Establish and uphold the standard for what a great Jetson hardware product looks like.
Own the end-to-end NPI process from concept through scaled rollout — requirements, vendor and technology evaluation, prototyping, pilots, certification, and ramp.
Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Field Teams to ensure every product is installable, serviceable, and supportable at Jetson's quality bar, and clears UL/CSA certification, NEC code, and utility interconnection requirements.
Architect how heat pumps, water heaters, chargers, batteries, and panels work together as one integrated home energy system, designed as a platform rather than a collection of SKUs.
Define the data model, telemetry, and control interfaces for intelligent energy orchestration, and drive interoperability with industry standards (e.g., Matter, OCPP, IEEE 2030.5, OpenADR).
Serve as the connective tissue between what Jetson builds and how we sell, install, and service it, partnering across Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Field Operations.
Define pricing, bundling, and rebate strategy across the portfolio, and partner with the Energy Markets team so new hardware enables demand response, VPP, and grid services participation.
Serve as Jetson's senior expert on the residential energy hardware landscape and our positioning relative to players like Tesla, Enphase, Span, FranklinWH, Daikin, Mitsubishi, and Rheem.