Technical Product Manager

Peak Energy•Burlingame, CA

23d•Onsite

About The Position

Peak Energy is seeking a Technical Product Manager to join their product team. This role will be responsible for the intersection of product requirements, hardware specifications, and go-to-market configuration strategy. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with deep technical content, including standards documents and engineering tradeoffs, and will translate these into clear product requirements. They will also consider market positioning and product offering strategy. The Technical Product Manager will collaborate with engineering, commercial, and operations teams to define product development and packaging. While not directly managing external customer relationships, their decisions will impact customer experience, including available configurations, certifications, power conversion and software strategy, and competitive technical positioning.

Requirements

2–5 years of experience in product management, technical program management, product development, consulting in a relevant field, or a closely related role.
Demonstrated 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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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 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.
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.