Product Manager

Antora Energy•San Jose, CA

15d•$142,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Antora Energy’s Product Management team defines what its thermal energy storage product must achieve, for whom, by when, and why. Using market research and techno-economic analysis, the team defines engineering requirements, develops specifications for Business Development, and guides product development to ensure Antora builds the right product. The Product Manager conducts market research, techno-economic analysis, and trade studies to inform product hypotheses; communicates findings across the company; and owns the process of verifying and validating hypotheses with Engineering, Business Development, and Analytics. The role is expected to grow into an embedded partner to those teams, helping make the trade-offs that shape Gen2 into a product that can help address climate change at a global scale.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or another technical field related to Antora’s product.
Experience performing quantitative techno-economic or financial analysis; ability to structure trade studies, reason about trade-offs, and build and defend a project-economics case, with working fluency in NPV, IRR, and cost of capital.
Ability to collaborate across different backgrounds and communicate clearly and proactively upward, downward, and laterally.
Ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations: identify problems, scope solutions, find the right people, drive work to a solution, prioritize effectively, and know when to escalate.
Curiosity and first-principles thinking, with a desire to learn the technology, markets, and regulations deeply.
Ability to turn ambiguous, multi-stakeholder discussions into plans.
Ability to question requirements and constraints and use product judgment to reassess the biggest constraints and drivers of product success.
Experience solving an ambiguous problem by building a defensible, narrative-led economic case and motivating stakeholders to act on it; demonstrated ability to solve problems more ambiguous and complex than those typically encountered at the candidate’s current level.
Demonstrated willingness to push the limits of what AI can do in the role.
Motivation by impact beyond self-interest; belief in the mission; a team-first mindset; humility and openness; and persistence through difficult stretches.

Nice To Haves

Electrical engineering experience or coursework.
Energy markets or power systems economics experience or coursework.
Hardware startup or first-of-a-kind deployment experience.
Experience developing and using software-based product analysis tools.
Python proficiency.
Experience working with or for EPC firms.
Familiarity with industrial controls/SCADA integration and operational-technology (OT) cybersecurity.
Experience working on projects in international markets, with particular preference for the EU and Australia.
Familiarity with European and/or Australian codes and standards.
Direct experience with microgrid or utility-scale power generation projects.

Responsibilities

Scope, structure, and conduct analytical product-design work, including trade-off and techno-economic studies and codes and compliance development, in partnership with Engineering; deliver clear recommendations and manage the process of verifying and validating requirements throughout design.
Serve as the internal source of truth for product information, aligning stakeholders on specifications, capabilities, and the product development roadmap, and following up with experts and stakeholders when details are still developing.
Support long-term product strategy, including grid modeling, power systems analytics, and industrial market research.
Lead special product projects by gathering product questions from Engineering, Commercial, and executive leadership; assembling appropriate internal and external experts; and driving workstreams to completion or handoff.
Engage with external stakeholders—including customers, financiers, regulators, electric utilities, project developers, independent engineers, and codes and standards organizations—to gather market intelligence, inform product strategy, and produce technical reviews and third-party reports.
Enable Policy, Marketing, Legal, and Communications teams with product information and collateral, including identifying regulatory constraints, designing marketing collateral, and developing memos and messaging for investors, regulators, and legislators.
Collect customer and market intelligence and build information systems to disseminate priority insights across technical and commercial teams to inform customer understanding and product development.