Technical Program Manager

About the role

We are hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to oversee multiple concurrent deployments and programs spanning battery energy storage systems, energy management software, hardware integrations, manufacturing, and customer projects.

Responsibilities

• Own multiple concurrent BESS and utility scale projects at different lifecycle stages simultaneously
• Maintain detailed program plans across all active projects including scope, schedule, budget tracking, risk registers, and milestone accountability
• Cook up dependencies among engineering, procurement, operations, and external vendors to ensure smooth sailing
• Own risk identification and mitigation across all active programs: track open issues, drive resolution, solve risk interdependencies and keep leadership informed without waiting to be asked
• Manage external partners, subcontractors, and equipment vendors to contractual milestones, hold them accountable, and escalate when needed
• Build and maintain the program infrastructure
• Critical Loop: source of truth process, tracking systems, reporting, success metrics (define & measure), milestone review cadences, and escalation paths
• Translate complex technical and schedule realities into clear, accurate communication for customers, utility stakeholders, and internal leadership
• Identify patterns across projects and feed learnings back into how the team scopes and plans future programs

Requirements

• 10 Years of Experience owning multiple complex, customer-facing projects/programs simultaneously from kickoff through delivery on timelines and can operate in ambiguity on compressed or accelerated deployment timelines
• Understands how to sequence work across engineering, procurement, operations, and external vendors
• Has owned customer and external partner relationships directly, including difficult conversations, running status meetings, and managing deliverable schedules
• Can build a program structure from nothing and does not wait for process, tools, or a PMO to exist before creating them
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% of the time

Nice-to-Haves

• Background in commercial energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, or experience managing programs that span both hardware development and field execution
• Familiarity with supply chain constraints in a physical product company
• Direct experience with utility interconnection processes, permission to operate timelines, or NTP-to-energization workflows
• Background managing BESS projects at both utility scale (10MW and above) and C&I scale (100kW to 10MW)
• Familiarity with EPC contract structures, change order management, and project finance milestones
• Experience building or formalizing a program management function at a hardware or energy company
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent
• Has worked in a startup environment without an implemented PM software or procedures and understands what it means to own outcomes without organizational support

Compensation

$175K - $200K