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, acceptance criteria, and important edge cases
concrete enough for the team to build and test. Our grid planning and
interconnection platform needs to “just work” the way we all expect agentic
products to work.
Build and Ship: Use code and AI development tools to prototype workflows,
test ideas, and, where it makes sense, ship improvements yourself. Work
hand-in-hand with Engineering on larger changes, staying involved in
implementation decisions, testing, and rollout. Remove blockers and follow
through until customers can use what we build.
Own Agent Product Quality: Partner with power systems engineers to turn
expert judgment and real customer tasks into evaluation cases. Work with
Engineering to test whether the agent picks the right studies, sets them up
correctly, and explains results clearly. Set release criteria together,
investigate failures, and define when the product should ask for
clarification or expert review.
Close the Loop After Launch: Measure whether customers complete their work
successfully and adopt what we ship. Review usage, customer feedback, and
product behavior to identify the next improvement. Fix confusing interactions
and recurring failures alongside new capabilities, and communicate changes
clearly to customers and customer-facing teams.
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years building and shipping technical software products in product
management, engineering, or a combination of both, with a track record of
independently owning products from discovery through launch and iteration.
A bias toward action. You can identify a valuable first version, make sound
decisions with incomplete information, and learn from shipping while holding
a clear bar for quality.
Experience building with LLMs or agents, with a practical understanding of
their capabilities, failure modes, and how to evaluate whether they
accomplish a task reliably. You use AI tools in your own work every day and
keep up with how they’re changing.
Strong customer discovery skills. You can lead a conversation with a highly
technical domain expert and their boss, ask precise follow-up questions, and
connect workflow details to business priorities.
Clear written and visual communication. You can express a product decision
through a concise spec, mockup, prototype, or evaluation case and choose the
format that helps the team move forward.
The judgment and independence to prioritize 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.