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.

This opportunity is based out of Form Factory 1 – Form Energy’s 550,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in Weirton, WV, a commutable distance from Pittsburgh. Purpose-built for high-volume, advanced battery production, Form Factory 1 is a hub of fast-moving, collaborative work driving a new era of large-scale American energy manufacturing in the heart of the Rust Belt.

Relocation assistance is available.

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 Manufacturing space.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

• Demonstrated experience with effective cross-functional stakeholder management.

• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing execution systems (MES), and SCADA/controls integrations. (e.g.: skillset)

• Demonstrated ability to enable teams to meet strict timelines.

• Passion for our mission, sustainability, and tackling climate change.

• Strong technical skills including an ability to access and analyze data.

• Empathy for users and a curiosity to deeply understand their needs and varying perspectives/experience.

• Track record of managing one or several products, leading to hard-won wisdom about how to balance your attention across day-to-day tactics and long-term strategy.

• An entrepreneurial approach to decision-making and prioritization that blends evidence-based rigor with the pragmatism to move forward based on incomplete information.

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Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. 

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed. 

To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.

If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact [email protected]. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.

Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.