Product Manager

The posting, as Piqenergy wrote it

Mission

The power grid is the backbone of national security, the economy, and the energy transition—and growing uncertainty is making it harder to maintain reliability while integrating new generation and serving rapid load growth. As a result, generation developers, large load developers, and electric utilities are forced to plan and build with imperfect data and slow study workflows, making interconnection and long-term planning slower, riskier, and more uncertain.

Piq Energy accelerates the energy transition with an automated network model management system and autonomous grid planning and interconnection software. Our products and technology supercharge technical analysis around transmission and distribution grids for generation, storage, and load developers, as well as utilities and system operators across North America and Europe.

Role

Piq Energy’s Product Manager will own products end-to-end, from understanding customer needs through development, rollout, and iteration. You’ll work alongside product-minded software engineers and power systems engineers to build a purpose-built agentic grid planning and interconnection platform for developers and utilities.

The work is ambiguous. You’ll bring the judgment to choose what matters, the technical ability to build and test ideas, and the follow-through to get useful products into users’ hands (internal + external) quickly. You’ll be hands-on every day: lead a discovery call, sketch a workflow, weigh in on a design, write a spec, build a prototype, investigate an agent failure, and work with Engineering to ship the next improvement.

You’ll own customer discovery and build relationships with both the power systems experts and the non-technical users (e.g. developers and executives) who use our products. You’ll translate what you learn into products that complete real planning work reliably, make their results understandable, and earn customers’ trust.

Grid-planning expertise is preferred, but not required. We’re looking for someone who has independently led complex technical products, learns unfamiliar domains quickly, and takes responsibility for outcomes. You’ll work closely with our power systems engineers to develop the domain judgment this work demands.

Responsibilities

• Own Discovery: Lead customer conversations yourself. Understand how power systems experts and project developers work. Observe real tasks, test assumptions, and turn findings into specific product decisions.
• Decide What Ships Next: Identify the most valuable problem to solve and scope a useful first release. Make tradeoffs explicit, resolve ambiguity, and sequence work so the team can ship, learn, and improve quickly. Balance immediate customer needs with improvements that benefit the broader product, and proven wins with new bets.
• Define the Work: Turn what you learn into whatever the team needs to build from: a written spec, a mockup, a working prototype, or a set of test cases. Make expected behavior,

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tize competing needs, resolve ambiguity with engineers, and take accountability for product outcomes.

• Passion for grid planning and interconnection, and demonstrated ability to become effective in an unfamiliar technical domain.

Bonus Points

• Domain expertise in grid planning, power systems, or interconnection, including experience with developer or utility study workflows.
• Experience shipping agentic products used by technical professionals to complete complex work.
• Hands-on building ability. You can write and debug code, work with APIs and data, and use AI development tools to turn an idea into a working prototype or scoped product improvement.
• Experience building evaluation datasets, inspecting agent traces, or turning expert feedback into repeatable quality tests.
• Early-stage startup experience working closely with engineers and customers to take products from an initial idea to sustained use.

Compensation

$160k - $200k with equity.

About Piq Energy

Piq Energy’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition by automating power grid simulation and analysis for project developers and utilities.

Our values

• Kindness: Be kind and candid to yourself and others.
• Excellence: Aim high and continuously improve.
• Sustainability: Consider your capacity to maintain yourself, your communities, and the environment.
• Humility: Serve a greater goal, stay curious and open to learning.
• Freedom and Responsibility: You have the freedom to make decisions and the responsibility to take ownership of those decisions.

Why join us

• Shape the future of the power grid.
• Work with a passionate, mission-driven team.
• Collaborate in a global, remote-friendly environment.
• Be part of the early team and contribute to shaping the company’s direction.

Accessibility

Piq Energy welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.