Product Management Director

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EnerVenue is a Silicon Valley-based energy infrastructure company commercializing metal-hydrogen battery technology originally developed by NASA for the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. Founded in 2020 by Stanford Professor Yi Cui, EnerVenue adapts this proven aerospace chemistry for grid-scale terrestrial energy storage, delivering batteries with 30,000+ cycle lifetimes, inherent fire-safety, and a 30-year design life.

In 2026, EnerVenue closed a $300 million Series B extension and is well capitalized for growth. Funds are being deployed to build a high-volume manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China, targeting 250 MWh capacity by Q3 2026 and 1 GWh by 2027. EnerVenue has been named one of Time magazine's Top 10 US Green Technology Companies of 2025.

The Role

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The Product Management Director reports directly to the Chief Product Officer and owns the full product lifecycle of EnerVenue's metal-hydrogen energy storage portfolio, from the Ni-H2 vessel and module, to racks, containerized and skid-mounted energy storage systems, and the accompanying BMS/EMS software layer. You are the single point of ownership connecting the market to the technology: translating utility, C&I and international customer needs into a prioritized roadmap, clear product requirements, defensible pricing, and products that R&D can design and the factory can build at scale.

This is a build-and-scale mission rather than a caretaking role. You will establish the product management function from the ground up: the roadmap process, the stage-gate NPI governance, the product cost and margin model, the competitive intelligence engine and the launch playbook. You will align product strategy with the company's gigawatt capacity roadmap, drive continuous reduction of levelized cost of storage (LCOS), and make the disciplined trade‑off decisions across performance, cost, certification and time-to-market that determine whether each product wins in its target segment.

Key Responsibilities

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• Define and own the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for the full metal-hydrogen storage portfolio: cells and vessels, modules, racks, containerized/skid systems, and BMS/EMS software.
• Segment the market by application (utility‑scale, C&I, microgrid, long-duration storage, harsh‑environment and off‑grid) and geography, and define the target product configuration, differentiation and value proposition for each segment.
• Build and maintain the business case for every product line: addressable market, volume forecast, price and cost trajectory, margin, investment requirement and payback.
• Align the product roadmap with the company's gigawatt capacity plan, R&D technology roadmap and go‑to‑market priorities; arbitrate scope, sequencing and resource allocation across competing initiatives.
• Run a structured voice‑of‑customer program with utilities, IPPs, developers, EPCs, integrators and channel partners; convert field insight into prioritized requirements.
• Maintain continuous competitive intelligence across LFP and other lithium chemistries, flow batteries, sodium‑ion and long‑duration storage technologies; quantify EnerVenue's advantage in cycle life, safety, temperature tolerance and total lifetime cost.
• Track policy, incentive, tariff, grid‑code and standards developments in target markets, and translate the implications into roadmap and positioning decisions.
• Own LCOS and total‑cost‑of‑ownership models used in customer‑facing value engineering and internal product decisions.

3. Requirements Definition & NPI Governance

• Author and own market requirement documents (MRD) and product requirement documents (PRD), translating customer and application needs into unambiguous, testable engineering specifications.
• Establish and chair the stage‑gate NPI process from concept, design, prototype and pilot trial through mass production release; own gate criteria, deliverables and go/no‑go decisions.
• Partner with R&D, Factory Engineering, Quality and Supply Chain to embed design‑for‑manufacturing, design‑for‑cost, design‑for‑serviceability and supplier readiness from the concept stage onward.
• Own product configuration, options, variants and technical documentation baseline; govern engineering change orders and their commercial, cost and warranty impact.
• Own product‑level cost roadmaps in $/kWh terms, working with engineering and supply chain to set and hit aggressive BOM and system cost reduction targets.
• Define pricing strategy, price books, configuration‑based pricing logic and discount governance; support commercial teams on large project quotations and l