Director of Technical Program Management

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world's most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless reaction with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Cayalyst Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we're quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we're hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring's business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

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Job Overview

We are seeking a proven leader to head Mainspring's Technical Program Management team.  This person is responsible for the processes and execution of all the major product deliveries across the company, whether it's an engineering change to an existing product or the development and release of a new product or feature.  You and your team will enable the company to get to the next level of scale by deploying and operating increasingly rigorous and effective processes.  

You are a quick learner with the technical depth to navigate complexities spanning design, manufacturing, and customer support. You effectively manage scope, schedule, cost, risks, trade-offs, for the most important programs that you and your team are driving.  A strong communicator, you'll collaborate closely with leaders across Engineering, Supply Chain, NPI, Quality, Reliability, Test, Manufacturing, and Field Support, as well as working directly with the company executives.  This position reports to the SVP of R&D.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team, define strategy and priorities: The team supports many primary projects and programs across the company. You will drive successful delivery through your team and maximize impact to the company by identifying opportunities, setting priorities and directing the resources. Hiring, mentoring, and developing the team are key responsibilities
• Product development projects and programs: Work with leadership to set company strategy and translate that into priorities for the program management team. Manage hardware and software product development programs through all phases: from conceptual ideas to scaling manufacturing. working with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain and more. Ensure successful delivery of programs and projects meeting the scope, timeline and budget
• Business process improvements: Identify and improve or implement new processes needed to scale the business and maximize efficiency of the organization. Deploy  backbone product development systems to help the company scale up, from basic R&D programs, to cost-down supply chain initiatives and improvements to manufacturing operations
• Business process ownership: Own and drive Stage Gate and Change Management processes governing product lifecycle

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience: Relevant experience as a program manager and leader of a team of program managers. Engineering background is strongly preferred. An ability to quickly grasp complex technical and operational tradeoffs is a must
• Team Leader: Proven success managing a team of highly skilled individuals. Effective leader across the organization
• Product Development Program Management:  Have managed multiple product development programs through the full lifecycle, from concept to volume production, for complex products that include manufacturing solid goods with sophisticated software
• Business process ownership and improvements: Have a strong track record of driving process improvements across a wide range of teams and driving standardization of processes
• Communication and collaboration: Skilled at engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels, with clear verbal and written communication

$203,000 - $240,000 a year This position is onsite at our Menlo Park HQ. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don't meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we'd still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

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