GridCARE

GridCARE

Principal Product Manager

Redwood City · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$240kDetected 49 days ago
AlgorithmsMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementForecastingElectrical EngineeringPower ElectronicsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This product area sits at the intersection of grid operations, complex systems, real-time software, energy markets, optimization, simulation, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows.
  • This is a senior individual contributor role with broad company impact.
  • You should be comfortable using AI to accelerate product discovery, analysis, prototyping, documentation, and execution, while applying strong product judgment to complex technical and commercial tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

  • Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for one of the most critical GridCARE products.
  • Define how complex grid capabilities are translated into reliable, scalable customer and partner workflows.
  • Lead integration across internal products and relevant external systems.
  • Drive prioritization across multiple product initiatives, balancing customer needs, technical constraints, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
  • Partner closely with engineering to deliver reliable, scalable, real-time operational systems.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, power systems, commercial, and executive leadership teams.
  • Access to leading academic, industry, and government partners in the AI-energy ecosystem.
  • Partner with hyperscalers, developers, and utilities on high-impact, real-world deployments.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of highly technical and complex software products.
  • Strong understanding of energy and power markets.
  • Familiarity with relevant industry standards, regulatory frameworks, and operational requirements.
  • Practical fluency with AI tools and workflows, with the ability to use AI to improve product discovery, analysis, prototyping, communication, and execution.
  • Proven track record building and scaling products from early stages through broad production deployment.
  • Experience with complex systems involving advanced algorithms, optimization, simulation, orchestration, machine learning, or operational decision-making.
  • Experience building real-time products that ingest, process, and act on live operational data.
  • Deep understanding of power systems and grid operations.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, executive leadership, customers, utilities, and external partners.
  • Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and leading cross-functional initiatives with significant complexity.

Nice to have

  • Experience with virtual power plants, demand response, DERMS, EMS, grid operations software, energy-market software, or related systems.
  • Experience at early-stage or high-growth startups.
  • Background in electrical engineering, power systems, computer science, operations research, or a related technical field.
  • Lunch provided three days a week in office.

Compensation

  • $200,000-$240,000 base salary
  • Compensation: $200,000-$240,000 base salary

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, performance bonus, and meaningful equity stake.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Receive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits in a fast-growth, mission-driven environment.
  • Shape products that incorporate optimization, simulation, forecasting, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows.
  • Flexible hybrid schedule: primarily in-office for collaboration with flexibility for focused work.

Company info

  • immediate access to power.
  • As demand for computing skyrockets, access to energy has become the defining bottleneck in the AI infrastructure race.
  • While leading tech companies invest billions in speculative, long-term solutions that may take decades to arrive, GridCARE's pioneering physics-based generative AI platform unlocks gigawatts of hidden capacity in today's electric grid - enabling hyperscalers, data center developers, and utilities to power AI infrastructure years sooner than conventional approaches and without costly upgrades.
  • Founded at Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability and backed by leading climate-tech and deep-tech investors, GridCARE has assembled a world-class team spanning power systems, AI, and infrastructure.
  • A small, world-class team where your work directly shapes the product and the company.
  • A mission-driven culture focused on shaping the future of the energy transition.
  • Work directly with customers, utilities, market participants, and strategic partners to understand operational and commercial requirements.

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