Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of customer discovery through engaging conversations, observing real tasks, testing assumptions, and making product decisions.

• Identify significant problems, outline valuable initial releases, clarify tradeoffs, resolve uncertainties, and organize work sequence.

• Convert insights into detailed written specifications, mockups, functioning prototypes, or test cases that include acceptance criteria and edge cases.

• Develop prototypes for workflows, test concepts, and implement enhancements using coding and AI development tools when applicable.

• Collaborate with Engineering on implementation choices, testing processes, rollout strategies, removing obstacles, and ensuring follow-through.

• Work alongside power systems engineers to formulate evaluation cases and evaluate agent study selection, setup, and result interpretations.

• Establish release criteria, investigate agent failures, and determine when clarification or expert review is necessary.

• Assess customer success and adoption post-launch by analyzing usage, gathering feedback, and understanding product behavior.

• Address confusing interactions and persistent failures, and communicate updates to customers and customer-facing teams.

• Manage products comprehensively from customer requirements through development, deployment, and iterative improvements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in developing and launching technical software products in product management, engineering, or a blend of both, with a proven record of independently managing products from discovery to launch and iteration.

• Capability to identify a valuable initial version, make informed decisions despite incomplete information, and learn from shipping while maintaining a high standard for quality.

• Experience in building with LLMs or agents, possessing practical knowledge of their capabilities, failure modes, and evaluation techniques.

• Regular use of AI tools and awareness of their evolving landscape.

• Strong skills in customer discovery, particularly with highly technical domain experts and business leaders.

• Proficient in clear written and visual communication through specifications, mockups, prototypes, or evaluation cases.

• Sound judgment and independence to prioritize competing demands, clarify ambiguities with engineers, and take responsibility for product results.

• Enthusiasm for grid planning and interconnection, with the ability to adapt effectively to an unfamiliar technical domain.

• Expertise in grid planning, power systems, or interconnection, including familiarity with developer or utility study workflows (bonus).

• Experience in launching agentic products utilized by technical professionals (bonus).

• Proficiency in writing and debugging code, working with APIs and data, and utilizing AI development tools (bonus).

• Background in developing evaluation datasets, analyzing agent traces, or converting expert feedback into consistent quality tests (bonus).

• Experience in early-stage startups working closely with engineers and customers (bonus).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Collaborate in a global, remote-friendly environment

• Be part of the early team and contribute to shaping the company’s direction