Principal Product Manager

GridCARE

Principal Product Manager leading product strategy and execution for AI infrastructure energy solutions at GridCARE. Collaborating with partners to operationalize grid capacity across market workflows.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRedwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for one of the most critical GridCARE products.
Define how complex grid capabilities are translated into reliable, scalable customer and partner workflows.
Lead integration across internal products and relevant external systems.
Translate complex operational, market, and customer requirements into clear product specifications and execution plans.
Drive prioritization across multiple product initiatives, balancing customer needs, technical constraints, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
Partner closely with engineering to deliver reliable, scalable, real-time operational systems.
Define capabilities for dispatch, orchestration, monitoring, verification, and performance management.
Shape products that incorporate optimization, simulation, forecasting, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows.
Define requirements for monitoring, compliance, auditability, and performance measurement.
Identify opportunities to use AI tools and workflows to accelerate product discovery, prototyping, documentation, analysis, and internal operations.
Ensure products can operate reliably at utility and enterprise scale.
Work directly with customers, utilities, market participants, and strategic partners to understand operational and commercial requirements.
Represent GridCARE as a credible product leader in customer discussions, industry engagements, and strategic partnerships.
Collaborate closely with engineering, power systems, commercial, and executive leadership teams.
Author product requirements, business cases, strategic roadmaps, and product success metrics.
Mentor other product managers and help scale GridCARE's product organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of highly technical and complex software products.
Proven track record building and scaling products from early stages through broad production deployment.
Experience with complex systems involving advanced algorithms, optimization, simulation, orchestration, machine learning, or operational decision-making.
Experience building real-time products that ingest, process, and act on live operational data.
Deep understanding of power systems and grid operations.
Strong understanding of energy and power markets.
Familiarity with relevant industry standards, regulatory frameworks, and operational requirements.
Practical fluency with AI tools and workflows, with the ability to use AI to improve product discovery, analysis, prototyping, communication, and execution.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, executive leadership, customers, utilities, and external partners.
Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and leading cross-functional initiatives with significant complexity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Performance bonus
Meaningful equity stake
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Lunch provided three days a week in office
Flexible hybrid schedule: primarily in-office for collaboration with flexibility for focused work
Access to leading academic, industry, and government partners in the AI-energy ecosystem
A small, world-class team where your work directly shapes the product and the company
A mission-driven culture focused on shaping the future of the energy transition

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementcomplex systemsadvanced algorithmsoptimizationsimulationorchestrationmachine learningreal-time productsoperational decision-makingperformance measurement

Soft Skills

communicationstakeholder managementmentoringcollaborationleadershipprioritizationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycustomer engagement