Senior Technical Product Manager, Internal Software

Fervo Energy

Senior Technical Product Manager leading internal software tool development for Fervo Energy. Collaborating across teams to enhance workflows and deliver impactful solutions.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeOakland • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own internal software product development from idea to adoption
Embed with teams across Fervo to understand their workflows, pain points, operating rhythms, and decision-making needs.
Translate bottlenecks into clear product requirements, technical specs, user stories, and success criteria.
Design for a connected software ecosystem, not one-off applications; ensure tools can integrate with existing systems, data sources, and future internal platforms.
Measure success through adoption, workflow improvement, and business impact; not just shipping features.
Partner deeply with engineering
Work closely with software engineers, contractors, and technical partners to scope, sequence, and deliver internal tools.
Bring enough software fluency to evaluate technical tradeoffs, ask strong questions, and make pragmatic decisions around implementation.
Write clear technical product requirements that help engineering teams move quickly with minimal rework.
Own delivery cadence, backlog management, sprint planning, stakeholder updates, and risk escalation.
Contribute technically where useful; especially in early prototyping, agentic coding workflows, technical review, or lightweight implementation support.
Build tools for fast-moving internal teams
Develop software that improves how Fervo manages complex work across engineering, construction, project execution, documentation, scheduling, modeling, procurement, and operations.
Identify where internal teams are relying on manual processes, disconnected data, or inefficient tools.
Build products that are simple, usable, and practical; the goal is not elegant software for its own sake, but tools that make Fervo faster and better.
Sit with users before and after launch to understand what is working, what is not, and what should change.
Create feedback loops that drive continuous product improvement.
Make build-vs-buy decisions
Audit Fervo's current internal software stack and identify where existing tools are sufficient, where they need better integration, and where purpose-built software would create meaningful leverage.
Recommend build, buy, integrate, or retire decisions based on business value, implementation cost, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
Serve as Fervo's internal expert on the resource requirements and tradeoffs of developing software in-house.
Help Fervo avoid both extremes: overbuilding when existing tools are good enough, and tolerating broken workflows when custom software would create real advantage.
Enable AI-enabled workflows
Partner with Fervo's AI and machine learning team to integrate internal data, models, and automation into the tools you build.
Identify opportunities for LLMs and agentic workflows to reduce manual work, including document parsing, report generation, data entry, workflow automation, and decision support.
Use modern coding and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping and delivery.
Help define practical, high-value AI use cases that improve real internal workflows rather than creating novelty features.
Help shape the future software function at Fervo
Establish the early operating model for internal software development at Fervo.
Create the product and delivery practices that future engineers, product managers, or software leaders can build upon.
Help determine what capabilities should be built internally, contracted externally, or hired for over time.
As the function proves value, help build and potentially lead a small internal software development team serving the broader company.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of experience across software engineering, technical product management, internal tools, platform product, software delivery, or related roles.
Prior experience as a software engineer, technical founder, technical product manager, engineering lead, or similarly hands-on software builder.
Ability to code well enough to prototype, evaluate implementation tradeoffs, and work credibly with software engineers.
Experience owning software products or tools from discovery through launch and iteration.
Strong product judgment; able to translate user pain points into clear requirements, prioritize competing needs, and define success.
Experience working directly with end users to understand workflows, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
Strong execution orientation; able to manage ambiguity, sequence work, unblock progress, and ship quickly.
Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with limited structure and high ownership.
Clear written and verbal communication; able to communicate tradeoffs, risks, and progress to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
life
short-term and long-term disability
flexible paid time off
paid parental leave
incentive stock options program
bonus incentive program
401(k) plan with an employer match

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmenttechnical product managementcodingprototypingworkflow automationAI integrationdata entryreport generationuser story creationbacklog management

Soft Skills

strong product judgmentexecution orientationclear communicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationuser empathydecision-makingfeedback incorporation