Senior Product Manager, Data Center and Utility Solutions
Menlo Park, CA
Product Mgmt – Product Mgmt /
Salary /
Remote
Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, 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 technology with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, 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
As Senior Product Manager, Data Center and Utility Solutions, you will lead Mainspring’s product direction and competitive positioning in two of our most critical verticals. You’ll translate real-world customer pain points into actionable solution designs, support industry-aligned product development, and work with go-to-market teams to position our offering in a way that resonates with industry buyers. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of product, sales, and market strategy.
Industry Insight and Solution Development
- Further deepen our understanding of the evolving needs of data centers and utilities, including operational, economic, regulatory, corporate/cybersecurity risk management, and sustainability drivers.
- Work with other members of the Product team to enhance competitive analysis specific for the data center and utility markets across key use-cases.
- As the market continues to evolve, identify where Mainspring can most effectively compete and win, and surface the new capabilities — internal or third-party — required to do so.
- Articulate Mainspring value proposition by use case for data center and utility customers and how those value propositions translate into claims that Marketing and Sales/BD can use to proposition Mainspring solutions in the market
- Develop and validate reference solution designs with input from engineering, product, and external experts.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with functionally-oriented product managers to translate industry requirements into roadmap priorities and align customer timing with product development cycles.
- Collaborate with Sales, BD, and Sales Engineering to support proposal development, customer conversations, and deployment planning.
- Partner with Product Marketing and Corporate Communications to develop compelling external narratives, whitepapers, and customer-facing materials.
Customer and Market Engagement
- Participate in customer meetings, industry events, and ecosystem discussions as a credible, technically fluent representative of Mainspring’s perspective.
- Develop strong relationships with key technical stakeholders at targeted customers, expanding our network and influence within the industry.
- Advocate for customer needs across the company and help refine how we communicate our differentiated value to the market.
Qualifications
- 8-10+ years of relevant professional experience, with at least 3-4 years doing work in either the data center or electric utility industry.
- Technical background, ideally in electrical engineering or related fields. Experience with power systems, DERs, or distributed generation a plus.
- Strong domain expertise in at least one of the target industries and ability to build credibility quickly in the other.
- Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration and translating complex industry needs into clear requirements or solution architectures.
- Experience contributing to proposals, industry-facing content, or reference solution development preferred.
- 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
$140,000 - $165,000 a year
This position is remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.
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.
