Senior Product Manager, Span.IO

Hardware

$127.5-191k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area
Span.IO

Electrical equipment manufacturing

Job no longer available

Span.IO

Electrical equipment manufacturing

201-500 employees

B2BEnergySustainabilityInternet of Things

Job no longer available

$127.5-191k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2BEnergySustainabilityInternet of Things

Company mission

To enable homes to get clean energy faster, cheaper and more easily. Impacting climate change is our passion.

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years experience with hardware product development and product management
  • 4+ years experience managing product development and/or technical teams
  • 4+ years experience developing home energy products and working in related domains including home electrical systems, solar PV, hybrid multi-mode inverters, EV chargers, and/or home battery technology
  • A degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems engineering or similar technical degree
  • Experience in 3D CAD software and rapid prototyping techniques for mechanical and electrical systems
  • Experience working directly with electrical/mechanical contractors and/or tradespeople
  • Experience evaluating and working with 3rd party partners on joint technology integration
  • Demonstrated success of collaborating across an organization (Product, Engineering R&D, Manufacturing, Operations, Training, Service, Etc.)

Desirable

  • Deep appreciation for human-centered design and user experience (UX)
  • Bonus qualifications – We would love to hire someone who has:
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills, including the ability to work seamlessly effectively with engineers and other product managers
  • Hands-on experience with electrical wiring and/or construction
  • Experience with home IoT, IIoT, and/or networking technologies
  • Knowledge of National Electrical Code (NEC) and general electrical code guidelines for solar PV and energy storage systems, and/or building codes (e.g. NEC 690, NEC 705, NEC 710) inverter (e.g. UL 1741, UL 916, UL 9540) and grid interoperability (e.g. IEEE 1547, UL 1741 SA, SB)

What the job involves

  • You’ll be a key leader and member of the cross-functional Product Management Team
  • Our team’s mission is to bring exceptional energy products to market that our installers and customers love
  • You'll work at the intersection of Product, Hardware, Software, Operations, and Commercial teams to envision and develop new products from concept to reality and to iterate and improve existing SPAN offerings
  • Lead the development of SPAN’s hardware product strategy, vision, and execution in collaboration with the product leaders on the team
  • Be a domain expert, thought leader, and go-to product leader at at SPAN
  • Oversee multiple programs in various stages - from ideation to development to launch and beyond
  • Define creative, high quality, long term product roadmaps based on team strategy and vision
  • Develop detailed, crisp product requirements and user stories that translate to product specifications and architecture for each product and application
  • Build solutions with an eye on usability, scalability, speed-to-market and reusability
  • Present and articulate design decisions, concepts and trade-offs verbally, visually, or through rapid prototypes
  • Prototype and iterate quickly with eye towards rapid discovery cycles through proof of concepts
  • Motivate a team of PMs to deliver exceptional products
  • Build business models to inform prioritization and trade-offs
  • Proactively identify / resolve strategic issues to enable the team to meet our goals
  • Drive product launches and go-to-market in partnership with Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams
  • Drive overall product and customer success. Ensure what we launch, lands. Measure product usage and performance, collect qualitative feedback and derive actionable insights to improve existing features and prioritize/design new features

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Insights

Top investors

37% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Competitive compensation and early equity at a well-funded, fast-growing, venture-backed company (read more on why Amazon and others invested in SPAN here and here)
  • A sunny 20,000 sqft hardware lab + office space in SOMA, a stone’s throw from Caltrain and close to BART
  • Flexible hours and vacation time - we simultaneously work hard and make space for the important stuff
  • Additional SPAN holidays in celebration of causes we believe in (i.e. Black History Day, Women’s History Day, Earth Day and Gay Pride & Juneteenth among others)
  • Comprehensive benefits include a choice of medical plans; dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • Diversity - we are serious about this. SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds,

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Apr 2023

$96m

SERIES B

Mar 2022

$90m

SERIES B

Total funding: $229.8m

Our take

Span helps homeowners looking to improve their energy resilience by replacing electric panels, many of them decades old, with a flexible smart panel that helps users monitor and control their energy usage from a single app.

Founded in just 2018, Span has made great strides in both price and technological development and has won the International Builders' Show 2022 Best Energy Efficient Product award for its Gen 2 smart Panel. Significant funding rounds have propelled product development, including a future-looking integration of its equipment with that of solar inverter, battery, and EV charger manufacturers.

This fast-developing and innovative answer to a previously stagnant home energy feature directly caters to the increasing demand for energy efficiency in the home. This is exemplified by a 2024 partnership with PulteGroup, the third-largest homebuilder in the US. With CEO Arch Rao at the helm, previously head of Products, Application & Sales Engineering at Tesla, Span seems likely to continue on its winning streak with increasingly affordable renewable energy products.

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