The Role
Lead product strategy for Mainspring's offerings to C&I customers, translating market needs into solutions, and collaborating across functions with sales, marketing, and engineering teams.
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Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, 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 reaction with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Cayalyst 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 Managerssit 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 Product Manager has a technical background and the ability to communicate well with people from many different functional backgrounds and different types of roles within and outside of our company. They enjoy engaging with customers, engineers, and consultants to fully identify customer needs and translate them into scalable technical specifications for Mainspring’s teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the full product management process from opportunity identification through full product release
- Identify, define, and quantify market opportunities and requirements by performing market research, customer interviews, economic analysis, and competitor benchmarking
- Develop product requirement documentation and collaborate with engineering teams to make trade-offs between customer needs, technical capabilities, performance and cost; and create quantitative analysis tools to enable clear visibility into these trade-offs
- Collaborate with internal Mainspring teams across sales, marketing, installation, and maintenance to develop product documentation and marketing materials
- Track and reconcile key technical and commercial dependencies for product initiatives for regular updates to the product roadmap and plan of record
- Participate in customer meetings, industry events, and ecosystem discussions as a credible, technically fluent representative of Mainspring’s perspective
Qualifications
- 8-10+ years of relevant professional experience, with at least 3-4 years doing work in power generation
- Successful release(s) of non-consumer products, ideally industrial hardware products
- Technical background, with ideally a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Experience working with engineering, sales, and installation teams
- Strong communication skills and ability to form relationships with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders
- Analysis, reasoning, and organizational skills to function well in a fast-paced startup environment
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.
Top Skills
Distributed Energy Resources
Power Systems
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The Company
What We Do
Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers onsite, fuel-flexible power to accelerate the transition to the future grid. To learn more visit www.mainspringenergy.com.
