Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
Company Overview
GroundWork Renewables is the solar industry’s trusted full-stack performance partner. A Certified B Corporation and ISO/IEC 17025-accredited testing provider, we deliver precise meteorological data and PV module insights — helping developers, EPCs, and asset owners reduce risk, improve forecasting, and maximize value throughout the project lifecycle. Our services have enabled 1,000+ solar measurement campaigns and helped project developers secure billions in financing by reducing uncertainty with trusted resource data. Backed by a recent strategic investment that positions us for accelerated growth, GroundWork is expanding its U.S. operations — and we are hiring a Senior Product Manager to build the next generation of our performance monitoring offering.
Position Summary
We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own a new hardware-plus-subscription program end-to-end: from active pilots through public launch and into commercial scale. The role combines instrumentation, cloud data, and customer-facing analytics into a single offering for utility-scale solar owners and IPPs. You will establish the business requirements that engineering, the lab, and analytics teams build against, approve the functional direction of the product, and act as the single point of ownership across hardware, software, lab analysis, and field deployment. You will report to the CTO and partner closely with engineering, the lab, sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams to turn a pilot-stage offering into a productized program. We are open to candidates from outside the solar industry — strong IoT SaaS product management skills are the must-have; we will teach you solar.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the program: Hold end-to-end product ownership across hardware, firmware, cloud platform, data analytics, and customer deliverables. Establish what gets built, approve how it works, and deliver against committed dates.
- Establish business requirements: Translate customer needs, pilot learnings, and commercial strategy into concrete, written requirements that engineering, the lab, and analytics teams build against. Maintain the source-of-truth product definition that sales, marketing, the lab, and engineering all reference. Own the trade-offs and the documentation behind them.
- Approve functional direction: Hold sign-off on functional design — how the product works, integration patterns, user-facing behavior, and data deliverables. Bring scope and roadmap recommendations to the CTO and CEO for the calls that affect commercial commitments.
- Drive the roadmap: Build and maintain a clear, prioritized roadmap from current pilots through public launch and into commercial scale. Filter customer requests and sales asks into a sequenced backlog. Run a regular sprint cadence with engineering and analytics to hit committed dates.
- Run pilot execution: Sequence installs, coordinate data access across customer systems, schedule lab analysis, and hit deliverable commitments. Operate at the level of detail required to keep multiple overlapping pilots on track.
- Build the commercial model: Own the cost-to-deliver model, contribute to pricing and packaging decisions, and translate program economics into a working artifact that the executive team uses to make customer commitments.
- Partner cross-functionally: Work with sales and marketing on commercial motion, with the lab on test integration, with field teams on install logistics, and with hardware and software engineering on delivery.
- Represent GroundWork externally: Engage customer product, performance, and asset management teams. Defend the program’s value at industry events, sales engagements, and customer reviews.
Qualifications & Experience
- Product management foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Track record: 6+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years as a senior individual contributor owning a product or program end-to-end. Demonstrated success shipping IoT or hardware-plus-software offerings to commercial customers.
- IoT SaaS depth: Hands-on experience with connected-device product lines — instrumentation, telemetry, time-series data, cloud ingestion, and customer-facing analytics or dashboards. Comfortable across the full stack from sensor to API to report.
- Requirements and functional ownership: Has authored business requirements and held sign-off on functional direction for a real product, not just executed someone else’s spec. Comfortable making trade-off calls and standing behind them.
- Subscription program experience: Has shipped and scaled a recurring-revenue offering with both upfront and recurring components. Understands pilot-to-productization, pricing levers, and the economics of a subscription model layered on hardware.
- Cross-functional execution: Has owned a roadmap with multiple parallel engineering, analytics, and operations workstreams. Comfortable running a sprint cadence and detailed program planning across overlapping efforts.
- Customer-facing credibility: Has defended product decisions in front of customer engineers, executives, and third-party reviewers. Strong written and verbal communication; writes product definitions clean enough that sales and engineering both work from them.
- AI-augmented working style: Treats AI coding tools as a default working surface. Reads, challenges, and ships work produced with AI assistance; uses it to move faster across functions rather than waiting on engineering capacity.
- Industry openness: Solar, wind, distributed-energy, or other utility-scale infrastructure experience is preferred but not required. We will invest in teaching the right candidate the solar domain; we are not in a position to teach product management.
- Mindset: Coachable enough to learn an industry, opinionated enough to drive a roadmap, disciplined enough to hold sequencing across a multi-year program. Operates well in a small-company environment where the lines blur and decisions are made fast.
Travel Requirements: As needed, ~25–35% to pilot and customer sites, the lab in Albuquerque, the manufacturing facility in Burbank, and industry events and conferences.
Join GroundWork Renewables and help customers make confident decisions with investor-grade solar intelligence. If you are passionate about our mission and have what it takes to succeed, we’d love to hear from you!
GroundWork is a Certified B Corporation and proud equal opportunity employer. We believe a diverse, equitable, and just team makes our work better, and our field a better place to be. We are committed to building a workplace where people feel welcomed, valued, and supported. We hire, promote, and develop people based on their skills, experience, and potential. We do not discriminate based on age, race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a fair chance employer. We’re committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve, and we’re actively developing the programs to get us there.
This work is ongoing. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, just let us know.
Pay: $136,000.00 - $147,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Product management: 6 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
