Product Manager

About the role

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

The Product Management team defines guiding hypotheses for what our thermal energy storage product must achieve, for whom, by when, and why. Through market research and techno-economic analysis, we define product requirements for Engineering, develop specifications for Business Development, and guide product development, ensuring Antora builds the right product to advance its mission.

The Product Manager will perform market research, techno-economic analysis, and trade studies that inform these hypotheses, communicate the findings across the company, and own the process that verifies and validates them with engineering, business development, and analytics. Over time, the role grows into an embedded partner to engineering, business development, and analytics, helping Antora make the many trade-offs that shape our future products into a product that helps to solve climate change at a global scale.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Guide analytical product design work. Scope, structure and run analyses ranging from trade-off & techno-economic studies to codes & compliance development with engineering, deliver clear recommendations, and own the process of confirming each requirement is verified and validated through the design process
• Serve as the internal source of truth on product information. Align stakeholders on the product’s specs and capabilities, product development roadmap, and follow-up with the necessary experts and stakeholders when certain specs and capabilities are still developing
• Support the development of Antora’s long-term product strategy, including grid modeling, power systems analytics, and industrials market research
• Lead special projects engagements for the product. Structure and solve the most important questions related to the product that don’t yet have an owner first by collecting inbound product questions from engineering, commercial, and executive leadership, assembling the right internal and external experts, and leading workstreams towards a point of completion or handoff.
• Lead engagements with key external Antora stakeholders, including customers, financiers, regulators, electric utilities, project developers, independent engineers and codes & standards organizations, to gather market intelligence, inform product strategy, and write technical reviews & third-party reports
• Enable our policy, marketing, legal, communications teams with the right information and collateral to effectively advocate for the product. This is a range of initiatives including: identifying where regulatory constructs constrain our product, designing marketing collateral that clearly communicates our value proposition, and developing memos and messaging for investors, regulator, and legislators that highlight our product and it’s strengths.
• Understand our customers by collecting market intelligence. Build the information systems that disseminate the highest priority market insights across technical and commercial teams to help them better understand our customers’ needs and help drive product development in the right direction.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering, physics, or other technical field related to Antora’s product
• Experience performing quantitative techno economic or financial analysis and knows how to structure a trade study and reason about trade offs. Can build and defend a project-economics case (NPV, IRR, cost of capital as working fluency).
• Collaborative across very different backgrounds. Communicates clearly and proactively up, down, and sideways.
• Operates independently in ambiguity. Identifies problems and scopes resolution, finds the right people, drives to a solution, prioritizes work effectively, and knows when to escalate.
• Curious, first principles thinker who wants to learn the technology, markets, and regulations deeply.
• Knows how to turn ambiguous, multi-stakeholder discussions into plans
• Questions requirements and constraints, has intuition (product sense) to question biggest constraints and drivers to constantly reassess/determine what is important for product success.
• Has personally solved an ambiguous problem through building a defensible, narrative-led economic case and motivating stakeholders to act on it; demonstrated ability to solve hard, more ambiguous, and more complex problems than typically seen at their current level
• A demonstrated willingness to push the limits of what AI can do in their role
• Motivated by impact beyond self-interest, believes in the mission, team and mission first, humility and openness, sticks through hard stretches

Additional Qualifications Desired

• Electrical engineering experience or coursework
• Energy markets or power systems economics experience or coursework
• Hardware startup or first of a kind deployment experience
• Experience developing and using software based product analysis tools
• Python proficiency
• Experience working with or for EPC firms
• Familiarity with industrial controls/SCADA integration and operational-technology (OT) cybersecurity
• Experience working on projects in international markets (particular preference for EU and Australia)
• Familiarity with European and/or Australian codes and standards
• Direct experience with microgrid or utility scale power generation projects

Work Location:  Hybrid Onsite - San Jose, CA

Salary Range:  $142,000 USD - $170,000 USD

Salary Basis:  Annual

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.