Staff Software Product Manager, Factory Software

Staff Software Product Manager, Factory Software Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form! In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia. Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing -  might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better. Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place. ROLE DESCRIPTION As a Product Manager for Factory Software, you will shape a software ecosystem that is critical to Form’s growth and scalability. Working on our Factory Software team, you’ll partner with company ops, product engineering, advanced manufacturing, supply chain, and finance to discover the right solutions to a range of novel manufacturing processes. You’ll map equipment and physical systems to digital ones, maximizing efficiency and delivering value to the end-user and the company. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a key innovation focus for the company at a critical period in our growth. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Define and Drive the Roadmap: Translate customer and internal factory operational needs into a clear, prioritized, and well-defined product roadmap and backlog that guides the Factory Software development team’s execution. - Ensure Customer Accountability: Serve as the ultimate voice of the customer/factory floor, working with the Factory Software development team to ensure all technical designs and implementation choices directly deliver maximum value against stated customer outcomes and requirements. - Manage Cross-Functional Communication: Proactively engage with Senior Leadership, Controls, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Warehouse, Production Planning, and Finance partners to clearly articulate the "Why", connecting business strategy and factory efficiency needs directly to the Factory Software team's deliverables. - Act as Business Translator: Act as the primary translator between business objectives and technical specifications, ensuring engineering efforts are continually optimized for maximum ROI and critical factory uptime. - Manage Risk and Dependencies: Identify, articulate, and proactively manage cross-functional dependencies, product risks, and trade-offs, ensuring transparency and mitigation strategies are communicated clearly to all stakeholders. - Own Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the factory software platform (e.g., uptime, yield, throughput, time-to-market) , holding the Factory Software team accountable. WHAT YOU'LL BRING: - 5+ years of technical product management experience including in-depth assignments within software engineering, data engineering, UX/UI design, or data science in Man ... (truncated, view full listing at source)