Techno-Economic Product Manager

Peak Energy Job Title: Techno-Economic Product Manager Location: Burlingame, CA Group: Product Team Reports to: Head of Product Position Type: Full-time About the Company Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven Sodium-Ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid. Sodium-Ion is cheap, readily available and safe, making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market. Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners such as TDK Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. We are a team of engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, and partners driven by a shared ambition to set the new performance standard for renewable energy and grid resilience. About the Job - Techno-Economic Product Manager We are seeking an analytically driven and technically grounded Techno-Economic Product Manager to support the development and commercialization of our utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS). In this role, you will evaluate product costs, performance trade-offs, and market dynamics to guide product strategy and competitive positioning. Your insights will help shape the roadmap, feature set, and go-to-market plans for our grid-scale energy storage solutions. What You'll Do (Responsibilities) • Own, build and maintain detailed cost and application-level performance models for utility-scale BESS from inputs to results and conclusions. • Act as a key customer for Peak’s cell and system level performance models, collaborating with team members to guide Peak’s modeling efforts. • Analyze product competitiveness by benchmarking Peak’s products against incumbent competitor offerings and emerging technologies • Support product roadmap decisions by identifying market-driven design trade-offs (e.g., lifetime vs. capex, efficiency vs. size). • Translate evolving energy storage market needs into technical product requirements. • Conduct techno-economic assessments (e.g., TCO, LCOS, energy asset revenue generation, payback period) across various grid services and business models. • Inform the definitions of Peak’s performance guarantees and product warranties. • Monitor key energy markets (e.g., CAISO, ERCOT, ISO-NE, Australia, EU) to identify product-market fit opportunities and revenue potential. • Provide technical insights to inform go-to-market strategies, RFP responses, and sales enablement materials. • Track and synthesize relevant high-level updates to standards, regulations, and interconnection requirements that may impact product design or market access. • Collaborate with finance, regulatory, and commercial teams to align technical product capabilities with broader business strategy. What You'll Bring (Qualifications) • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Applied Physics, Energy Systems, or a related technical field. • 5+ years of experience in energy storage, power systems, renewables, or grid-connected products. • Experience as a Battery Storage Product Manager, Energy Storage Product Manager, BESS Market Analyst, Grid Storage Modeling Manager, or Energy Modeling Analyst is helpful • Proficiency in technical analysis tools (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB) and Excel-based modeling. • Strong grasp of BESS architecture, component functions, and system integration considerations. • Experience translating energy market needs into actionable product architecture and design decisions. • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical and economic concepts and learnings to executives and non-technical audiences. • Familiarity with wholesale electricity markets and grid service use cases (e.g., frequency regulation, energy shifting, capacity). Preferred Qualifications • Energy management system development experience.…