Hardware Product Manager

Product · Mountain View, United States

Job description

Hardware Product Manager -

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner, and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

Lunar Energy is seeking a hardware product manager to manage and commercialize our residential energy products. You will be responsible for the go-to-market of the Lunar System, our next-gen solar and battery energy storage system, and expanding to other energy hardware products that enable all-electric homes. You will play a key role in gathering market requirements and creating and maintaining roadmaps to develop scalable, compelling product offerings. You will have a critical, cross-functional role, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality hardware products and a world-class experience for both end customers and installers. 

On a given day at Lunar, you’ll likely…

  • Create and maintain hardware product roadmaps. Craft detailed business cases, and market and product requirements to ruthlessly drive prioritization with program management, engineering, and commercial teams. 
  • Present product value propositions, differentiations, and benefits effectively to end customers, installers, and internal teams. Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to create compelling marketing materials and clear product messaging. 
  • Drive implementation of key product technical documentation (datasheet, installation manuals and checklists, product training, independent engineering reports, etc.) to provide internal and external stakeholders with information on product performance, safety, installation, features, compliance, and beyond. 
  • Gather and synthesize industry trends, market intelligence, and competitor benchmarking data. Evaluate customer economics, pain points, and use cases for all types of customers and geographies. Leverage data-driven insights to drive executive alignment on product strategy.
  • Define and track performance criteria for new product pilots. Proactively gather customer feedback and identify potential product issues for a successful rollout.
  • Provide sales engineering support throughout pre-sales, design and deployment of Lunar hardware into new and complex applications and markets
  • Drive hardware product kitting to optimize customer experience. Own and define customer bill-of-materials to feed into operations and engineering.

Desired Skills: 

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience with sales engineering, application engineering, or product management in the energy sector. 
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field 
  • Experience developing or commercializing energy products, including solar, energy storage, EV charging, or other power equipment products.  
  • Ability to quickly grasp product capabilities and constraints, and effectively communicate to non-technical audiences. 
  • Experience working with hardware OEMs on vendor qualification and co-development
  • Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to synthesize large qualitative and quantitative information from market research, sales feedback, and customer conversations into actionable product insights.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to execute parallel projects in a fast-paced environment. 
  • Familiarity with regulatory compliance and interconnection process of DERs
  • Deep passion for home electrification, sustainable energy, and user-centric designs. 
  • Able to work onsite most working days.

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
  • Flexible Paid Time Off plus 10 paid holidays
  • Tax-deferred 401(k) plan 
  • Paid parental leave for all full-time employees including 12 weeks of paid parental leave for the birthing mother and 6 weeks of paid parental leave for the non-birthing parent 
  •  Subsidized EV charging and pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Cell Phone stipend

Our Compensation Philosophy: Our goal is to ensure that all Lunar Energy employees are fairly compensated. Please note that the salary range information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position provided pursuant to the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act for California applicants. The salary range estimate for this position depending on the level of experience is: $130,000 - $180,000 USD

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package & benefits, will be at the company’s sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.