Senior Staff Product Manager (San Francisco)
Company Overview
Amperesand is disrupting industrial power by bringing the first commercialized Solid State Transformer systems to market. Solid State Transformers systems are much more than a transformer replacement, enabling numerous advanced features to unlock solutions for data centers, EV charging, renewables, microgrids, and industrial installations. We are looking for mission-driven team members passionate about making amazing products for worldwide electrification at maximum acceleration. Amperesand is building a global company and looking for talent across our geographies.
Job Overview
As a Senior Staff Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in translating Amperesands platform vision into tangible product features that enable next-generation grid-interactive power systems. Youll be responsible for defining and managing the delivery of differentiated inverter platform capabilities that support next generation high density DC power architectures for data centers. This role blends market insight, technical acumen, and customer empathy to prioritize features that offer meaningful impact and revenue potential. You will work closely with engineering, firmware, and commercial teams to define product strategy, drive technical execution, and enable successful gotomarket outcomes.
If you're passionate about building impactful, valuecentric products and excited about building transformational products at the intersection of electrification, grid modernization, and digital controlthis is your opportunity to lead and we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap for mediumvoltage inverter and SST platforms enabling medium voltage and 800 V DC distribution inside datacenter campuses.
- Quantify ROI for customers through PUE/WUE improvements, powerdensity gains, and CapEx vs OpEx tradeoffs.
- Establish technology partnerships to maximize SST impact on customer value and to shorten deployment time and enhance reliability.
- Engage directly with hyperscalers, colocation providers, and datacenter designbuild firms to define performance metrics for uptime, energy density, and fault containment.
- Translate customer site designs into scalable product configurations that integrate grid, genset, and storage assets.
- Monitor global datacenter power trends (AI rack loads, liquid cooling, regional grid codes, carbonfree procurement) and feed insights into roadmap decisions.
- Ensure electrical, thermal, and firmware designs meet Tier III/IV reliability targets and IEC/IEEE compliance (IEC 61850, 62477, 60364-7-716, IEEE 1547, UL 1741-SB).
- Align powerelectronics, embeddedfirmware, EMS, and mechanical teams around unified release plans.
- Collaborate with manufacturing and supplychain to ensure cost, scalability, and manufacturability targets are met.
- Partner with sales and applications engineering to generate customer proposals, value models, and technical collateral demonstrating differentiation versus legacy UPS/transformer systems.
- Build quantitative business cases for each platform variant including grossmargin modeling and totalcostofownership analysis.
- Conduct competitive benchmarking versus central inverter, rotary UPS, and lithiumion BESS suppliers.
- Identify regulatory and incentive frameworks (energystorage credits, gridsupport revenue streams) that influence pricing strategy and product adoption.
Qualifications & Skills
- 10+ years in product or technical leadership within datacenter power
- Strong grounding in MV AC/DC architectures, grid interconnection, redundancy schemes, and fault protection
- Understanding of MV system behavior, grid interaction, and fault protection.
- Energy Storage & EMS Familiarity: Experience with hybrid systems and integration of batteries or EMS solutions.
- Experience building business cases and customer ROI models for infrastructure or capitalequipment sales
- Proven ability to work with engineers, firmware developers, and system architects to deliver complex hardwaresoftware products.
- Exposure to AI datacenter designs, energymanagement systems, or hybridgrid microgrids
- BSEE required; MSEE or MBA preferred
Technical Skills
- Power Electronics & Inverter Systems: Deep understanding of bidirectional inverter design, and gridsupportive functionalities (e.g., reactive power, antiislanding, gridforming).
- Medium Voltage Systems: Familiarity with MV infrastructure (e.g., 22kV systems), grounding/fault protection, switchgear, and interconnection requirements.
- Hybrid Energy Systems: Experience integrating energy storage systems (ESS), EMS platforms, and managing charge/discharge optimization.
- Firmware Collaboration: Ability to codevelop feature sets with embedded systems teams, particularly around realtime control loops, black start logic, and remote diagnostics.
- Standards & Regulatory Knowledge: Working knowledge of IEEE 1547, UL 1741SB, IEC 61850, NEC 705/710/480/490, and grid interconnection frameworks.
- System Modeling & Specification: Capable of writing clear, technically detailed product requirements including control architecture, communication protocols, and I/O definitions.
- DataDriven Prioritization: Comfortable with tradeoff decisions using customer value, technical feasibility, and timetomarket drivers.
Bonus Exposures Energy Industry Focus
- Energy Sector Knowledge: Experience working on projects related to smart grids, renewable energy, or energy management platforms is a plus.
Why Join Us
- Join a CuttingEdge Startup: Be part of an innovative earlystage company developing breakthrough energy technologies that advance a more sustainable future.
- Make a Real Impact: Contribute to realtime monitoring and control of smart grid systems, directly enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability.
- Shape the Future: As an early team member, youll play a key role in shaping the product, influencing technical direction, and grow your career in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Driven by Purpose: Work alongside a missionfocused team building nextgeneration technologies that enable smart grids, energy optimization, and widespread renewable energy adoption.