Amperesand · 2 days ago
Senior Staff Product Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expAmperesand is disrupting industrial power with their innovative Solid State Transformer systems aimed at enhancing electrification solutions. As a Senior Staff Product Manager, you will be responsible for translating the company's vision into product features, managing the product roadmap, and collaborating with various teams to drive technical execution and successful market outcomes.
ElectronicsInfrastructurePower GridRenewable Energy
Responsibilities
Own the product roadmap for medium-voltage inverter and SST platforms enabling medium voltage and ±800 V DC distribution inside data-center campuses
Quantify ROI for customers through PUE/WUE improvements, power-density gains, and CapEx vs OpEx trade-offs
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 data-center design-build 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 data-center power trends (AI rack loads, liquid cooling, regional grid codes, carbon-free 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 power-electronics, embedded-firmware, EMS, and mechanical teams around unified release plans
Collaborate with manufacturing and supply-chain 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 gross-margin modeling and total-cost-of-ownership analysis
Conduct competitive benchmarking versus central inverter, rotary UPS, and lithium-ion BESS suppliers
Identify regulatory and incentive frameworks (energy-storage credits, grid-support revenue streams) that influence pricing strategy and product adoption
Qualification
Required
10+ years in product or technical leadership within data-center 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 capital-equipment sales
Proven ability to work with engineers, firmware developers, and system architects to deliver complex hardware-software products
Exposure to AI data-center designs, energy-management systems, or hybrid-grid microgrids
BSEE required; MSEE or MBA preferred
Power Electronics & Inverter Systems: Deep understanding of bidirectional inverter design, and grid-supportive functionalities (e.g., reactive power, anti-islanding, grid-forming)
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 co-develop feature sets with embedded systems teams, particularly around real-time control loops, black start logic, and remote diagnostics
Standards & Regulatory Knowledge: Working knowledge of IEEE 1547, UL 1741-SB, 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
Data-Driven Prioritization: Comfortable with tradeoff decisions using customer value, technical feasibility, and time-to-market drivers
Preferred
Energy Sector Knowledge: Experience working on projects related to smart grids, renewable energy, or energy management platforms is a plus
Benefits
Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays so they can rest, recharge, and take care of their health and personal needs.
Commuter Benefits
12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
Company
Amperesand
Amperesand operates as a grid infrastructure solution provider.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$92.45M2025-11-18Series A· $80M
2024-02-07Seed· $12.45M
Leadership Team
Sriram Vaisambhayana
Co-Founder
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