Peak Energy
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, ESS
Burlingame, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Identify and resolve technical, organizational, and schedule risks before they become critical.
- Provide clear, decision-oriented communication to executive leadership.
- Step directly into critical or off-track programs when hands-on leadership is needed.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop Peak's Technical Program Management team.
- Partner with the CTO and engineering leaders to translate product strategy into clear priorities, plans, milestones, and decisions.
- Drive system-level integration across ESS hardware, cells, software, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, and field deployment.
- Build lightweight, scalable program processes that improve execution without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
- 12+ years leading complex technical programs or product-development organizations.
Company info
- Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven Sodium-Ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid.
- Sodium-Ion is cheap, readily available and safe, making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market.
- Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, SunPower, Fluence, and Enovix.
- We are backed by strategic investment and product partners such as TDK Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.
- We are a team of engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, and partners driven by a shared ambition to set the new performance standard for renewable energy and grid resilience.
- About the Role - Sr.
- Staff Technical Program Manager
- Peak Energy is looking for a Sr.
- Staff Technical Program Manager to lead the end-to-end development and delivery of our sodium-ion energy storage systems across hardware and software.
- Reporting to the CTO, this leader will serve as a key partner to the technical leadership team, helping translate company and product priorities into clear development plans, driving critical technical decisions, and ensuring risks and dependencies are surfaced and resolved early.
- You will build and lead a lean team of Technical Program Managers while remaining close to the work.
- The right candidate will be comfortable operating at multiple levels: shaping the overall product-development operating model, coaching TPMs, leading critical programs directly, and engaging deeply enough in technical discussions to improve the quality and speed of decision-making.
- ( Responsibilities )
- Own integrated program execution from architecture and requirements through verification, industrialization, and customer delivery.
- Lead cross-functional trade-offs involving performance, safety, reliability, cost, scope, schedule, and manufacturability.
- Establish clear requirements, interfaces, verification plans, release criteria, and program ownership.
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