Techno-Economic Product Manager

About the role

The Techno-Economic Product Manager will support the development and commercialization of Peak Energy's utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS). Key responsibilities include evaluating product costs and performance, analyzing market competitiveness, and translating market needs into technical product requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own, build, and maintain detailed cost and application-level performance models for utility-scale BESS from inputs to results and conclusions.
• Act as a key customer for Peak’s cell and system level performance models, collaborating with team members to guide Peak’s modeling efforts.
• Analyze product competitiveness by benchmarking Peak’s products against incumbent competitor offerings and emerging technologies.
• Support product roadmap decisions by identifying market-driven design trade-offs (e.g., lifetime vs. capex, efficiency vs. size).
• Translate evolving energy storage market needs into technical product requirements.
• Conduct techno-economic assessments (e.g., TCO, LCOS, energy asset revenue generation, payback period) across various grid services and business models.
• Inform the definitions of Peak’s performance guarantees and product warranties.
• Monitor key energy markets (e.g., CAISO, ERCOT, ISO-NE, Australia, EU) to identify product-market fit opportunities and revenue potential.
• Provide technical insights to inform go-to-market strategies, RFP responses, and sales enablement materials.
• Track and synthesize relevant high-level updates to standards, regulations, and interconnection requirements that may impact product design or market access.
• Collaborate with finance, regulatory, and commercial teams to align technical product capabilities with broader business strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Applied Physics, Energy Systems, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in energy storage, power systems, renewables, or grid-connected products.
• Experience as a Battery Storage Product Manager, Energy Storage Product Manager, BESS Market Analyst, Grid Storage Modeling Manager, or Energy Modeling Analyst is helpful.
• Proficiency in technical analysis tools (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB) and Excel-based modeling.
• Strong grasp of BESS architecture, component functions, and system integration considerations.
• Experience translating energy market needs into actionable product architecture and design decisions.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical and economic concepts and learnings to executives and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with wholesale electricity markets and grid service use cases (e.g., frequency regulation, energy shifting, capacity).

Preferred Qualifications

• Energy management system development experience.
• Familiarity with US diurnal energy markets and policies.
• Exposure to product management, product marketing, or technical sales support.