Senior Product Manager
About The Position
We believe power is a promise - a shared commitment to be there for others when it matters most. For more than 65 years, we've turned big ideas into solutions that help protect homes, strengthen businesses and build a more resilient, efficient, sustainable energy future. Ready to Power a Smarter World with us? Generac is hiring for a Senior Product Manager who can drive both hardware and software initiatives across our residential solar and storage product line. This person bridges the gap between engineering, operations, and customers — turning complex technical challenges into shipped products that work in the real world. If you’ve been on a roof, debugged a commissioning flow, and or written a product roadmap, we would love to speak with you. This role is located onsite in our Oakland CA office location.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience in Business, Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in product management in residential solar energy storage, industrial or utility scale solar and energy storge
- Hands-on familiarity with residential solar installations — inverters, battery systems, metering, interconnection, permitting workflows
- Demonstrated record of shipping at least one hardware or integrated hardware/software product from development through market launch
- Full NPI and phase gate process from concept to commercialization
- Proficiency in product strategy development and execution.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and management skills.
- Strong technical acumen and problem-solving abilities.
- Focuses on managing larger scopes of work within a product portfolio while leveraging customer and market insights to influence tactical decisions.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s Degree in Engineering or other disciplines
- Experience with data-driven decision-making and analytics.
- Familiarity with customer-focused product development methodologies.
- Experience with energy management systems, time-of-use optimization, or grid services (demand response, VPPs)
- NABCEP certification or equivalent hands-on solar/storage training
- Experience with agile development methodologies in a hardware and software environment
- Familiarity with UL/IEC certification processes for energy products
Responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap for residential solar and storage offerings, spanning hardware design, embedded firmware, and customer-facing software
- Drive cross-functional initiatives from concept through launch, coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, field operations, and sales
- Define requirements, write specs, and prioritize rebalancing technical debt, customer needs, and business goals
- Lead new product introduction (NPI) efforts, managing the transition from prototype to volume production
- Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to stakeholders at every level — from installers in the field to the executive team
- Partner with field teams to understand real-world installation challenges and feed those insights back into the product
- Strong project management instincts — you keep things moving, unblock teams, and hold yourself and others accountable to timelines
- You can explain a BOM issue to an engineer and a value proposition to a customer in the same afternoon
- Comfort working across the stack: mechanical/electrical hardware, embedded systems, cloud platforms, and mobile/web applications
Benefits
- Variable compensation, including short term and long-term incentives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
