Senior Staff Technical Program Manager - Mainspring Energy, Inc.

Company Overview

Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers local, scalable, and fuel-flexible power to help accelerate the transition to the net-zero carbon grid.

The unique combination of attributes offered by Mainspring’s linear generator enables applications on both the commercial and utility sides of the meter for the $816B global electricity equipment market. We serve a wide range of Fortune 500 customers across markets and industries as well as top-tier utilities and other gridside providers.

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.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

Are you someone who thrives in bringing order and structure to a fast-changing environment and working with cross-functional teams to motivate and lead high impact projects and programs towards effective execution?

Mainspring Energy is seeking a smart and energetic individual who can support multiple teams within our company and be ready to manage some of the most important programs for the company and their subprojects. This will require the ability and experience to manage short term detailed tasks as well as having control over the long term, year long program and meeting its goals. You will be involved in managing projects and programs from R&D prototype build and validation, to pilot production, and all the way to high-volume manufacturing at external partners across all engineering disciplines in collaboration with reliability, quality and supply chain teams. You will also be part of developing and continuously improving Mainspring business processes and enterprise data systems to support our growing company.

In this role, your contributions will be integral to Mainspring achieving its product development timelines and production goals. You will directly contribute to transitioning our Linear Generator breakthrough technology to volume manufacturing and reaching a global scale.

As a Sr Staff Technical Program Manager you will

• Create plans and drive execution of projects and programs ranging from short term tactical projects to year long company wide programs with high impact.
• Collaborate with engineering development, reliability, test, operations, supply chain, quality and new product introduction teams as well as external partners.
• Communicate effectively to all stakeholders, including top level management.
• Develop new and improve existing business processes across all departments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years working as a project/program manager, with a track record of successfully managing several projects and/or programs from start to finish.
• Highly organized, attention to detail, with ability to plan and drive execution of projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled verbal and formal communication and interest to work with all teams and levels inside of the organization.
• Experience or proven abilities transitioning new product to volume manufacturing and/or managing product design changes while ramping production.
• Preferable background or experience with mechanical or electrical engineering.

The Bay Area salary for this role is $190k-$200k base + pre-IPO stock + benefits. This position can be on-site or hybrid. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

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.