Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Systems

Gridware

120

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on: 2026-01-30

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Gridware is a technology company focused on protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced active grid response platform uses high-precision mechanical sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

Role Summary

The Manufacturing Systems Product Manager owns the strategy, implementation, and ongoing evolution of ERP and manufacturing systems, acting as the connective layer between manufacturing operations, enterprise software, and data engineering teams. This role ensures that systems are designed as scalable, productized platforms rather than one-off implementations.

This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)

Paid parental leave

Alternating day off (every other Monday)

“Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees.

Commuter allowance

Company-paid training

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end ERP implementation and program management, including:

Requirements definition, process mapping, and vendor selection

System configuration and validation

Data migration and cutover planning

Go-live and post-implementation stabilization

Configuration for manufacturing modules (MRP, BOMs, routings, inventory, quality, costing)

Own relationship with ERP vendors and implementation partners with expectation to move teams off spreadsheets and manual workarounds.

Make pragmatic decisions on configuration vs customization vs custom build, with explicit bias toward minimizing customizations for scalability.

Ensure implementation timelines align with operational milestones

Own integration between ERP, MES, PLM, WMS, and external systems

Scale & Stabilize Manufacturing Systems

Own the roadmap for manufacturing systems as production volume, SKUs, and complexity increase

Ensure manufacturing processes (BOMs, routings, MRP, costing, inventory, quality, etc) are scalable and auditable

Identify and eliminate manual processes and fragile workarounds

Prepare systems for multi-site manufacturing as we scale

Product Ownership

Act as Product Manager / Product Owner for ERP and manufacturing platforms

Define system vision, roadmap, and success metrics

Maintain and prioritize backlog across implementation, enhancements, and technical debt

Balance operational urgency with platform stability and future needs

Partner with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and align priorities

Collaborate with engineering and vendors to deliver solutions from discovery through release

Software & Data Engineering Integration

Partner with software engineers to design clean, API-driven integrations

Collaborate with data engineers to define manufacturing data models

Ensure ERP data is reliable, timely, and analytics-ready

Support planning, forecasting, finance, and operational reporting needs

Ownership of master data integrity

Cross-Functional Leadership & Change Management

Serve as the primary interface between Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, SW, and Data Engineering

Drive alignment on standard processes during implementation

Lead user acceptance testing and training strategy

Manage change in a fast-growing organization

Required Skills

5+ years of experience across manufacturing systems, ERP, product management, or related roles

Led at least one full ERP implementation in a manufacturing environment

Strong hands-on experience with manufacturing ERP modules:

BOMs, routings, work orders, MRP, inventory, costing

PLM -> ERP integration / EBOM to MBOM

Proven ability to translate manufacturing workflows into system and data requirements

Experience working directly with software engineers and technical teams

Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives in a scaling company

Bonus Skills

Experience with dashboarding or reporting tools (Excel power user, SQL, or BI tools a plus)

Experience in the energy, utilities, or hardware startup space.

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