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Product Manager - Energy Storage Controls & Telemetry

San Francisco, CA

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

What is Verse? 

Energy markets are more volatile than ever. Rapid electrification and the rise of AI are driving unprecedented demand for power, while energy costs continue to rise across the globe. For the world’s largest energy buyers, managing energy has never been more complex or more critical.

Verse helps these organizations manage complex power portfolios with confidence by unifying energy data, planning, forecasting, and operations in one tool. Our Energy Cost Intelligence platform, Aria, brings together energy, finance, and operations teams with real-time, finance-ready intelligence—replacing spreadsheets and consultants with precision across the entire energy lifecycle. Built by an expert team of energy buyers, data scientists, and engineers, Verse enables faster, smarter energy decisions that reduce risk and lower energy costs.

The Role

Verse is building a real-time control platform that dispatches distributed battery fleets to maximize revenue across energy markets. We’re looking for a Product Manager who will own the operational backbone of this system: the layer where software meets physical hardware, where commands travel from the cloud to a battery inverter and telemetry flows back, and where uptime guarantees matter.

You’ll work across two pods: Fleet Telemetry & Control (device integration, real-time site controllers, OEM protocol translation, and local safety logic) and Site-to-Cloud Integration (the communication, configuration, and dispatch infrastructure that connects edge devices to cloud optimization). Your surface area spans Modbus device mapping across multiple OEMs (Tesla, Sungrow, Fluence), site-local control loops for export limits, demand management, and solar ITC compliance, telemetry ingestion pipelines, alarm management, config synchronization, and the dispatch path that translates cloud-optimized schedules into real-time battery behavior.

You’ll need to understand what happens when a meter times out, when a site loses cloud connectivity for 24 hours, or when a BESS OEM ships a firmware update that breaks your control interface.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the product roadmap for fleet telemetry and site-to-cloud infrastructure – spanning OEM device integration (Tesla, Sungrow, Fluence), real-time site controllers (net export limits, demand management, solar ITC, safety shutdown), telemetry ingestion, alarm management, and cloud-to-site dispatch execution.
  • Define requirements for site-local control logic and edge computing, including offline mode behavior, local schedule caching, meter timeout handling, and graceful degradation when cloud connectivity is lost.
  • Drive the OEM integration strategy across BESS manufacturers and meter hardware defining device mapping standards, polling configurations, and site topology management for increasingly complex multi-device installations.
  • Own the site-to-cloud communication layer – config synchronization, dispatch scheduling, fleet health monitoring, and end-to-end observability from command issuance through battery execution and telemetry confirmation.
  • Partner closely with the UI Product Manager to translate 24/7 fleet management workflows into product requirements for commissioning tools, alarm triage, urgent shutdown, and dispatch monitoring.
  • Work with Engineering to scope and prioritize across both pods, making trade-off decisions between new OEM support, reliability improvements, scale readiness, and feature delivery against contractual UAT milestones.

What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

  • 4+ years of product management experience on real-time, embedded, or industrial control systems. You’ve shipped software that talks to physical hardware and have dealt with the reliability, latency, and integration challenges that come with it.
  • Direct experience with device communication protocols and the messy realities of integrating across multiple OEM vendors with different APIs, firmware versions, and data formats.
  • Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, edge computing, or IoT infrastructure. You understand site-to-cloud architectures, VPN/network configuration, data buffering, and what it takes to keep remote devices reliably connected and controlled.
  • Comfort operating in a high-stakes, operationally critical environment where uptime matters – you’ve worked on systems where failures have real-world consequences and you know how to think about failover, graceful degradation, and alarm management.
  • Excellent communication skills with experience writing technical PRDs, coordinating across hardware and software teams, and engaging with customers or operations teams who are using the system in production. 

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Direct experience in battery energy storage, microgrids, or distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS). You know what a net export limit is, why solar ITC compliance matters, and how demand charge management works.
  • Experience building products that operate across edge and cloud with real-time dispatch or control loops – robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, or fleet management systems.
  • Familiarity with AVEVA/OSIsoft PI, utility SCADA integration, or market access provider APIs (e.g., Enel, PJM) for grid services dispatch.
  • Background in site commissioning, field operations, or NOC workflows – you’ve seen what it’s like to bring a site online and keep it running.
  • Experience working against contractual acceptance testing (UAT) milestones with enterprise or utility customers where delivery timelines are not negotiable.
  • Technical degree (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or similar) or equivalent hands-on experience with control systems.

What makes Verse a great place to work? 

Lead with Empathy: We lift each other up with humility and kindness, always putting colleagues and customers first
Be Honest & Transparent: We prioritize effective communication to build trust with our team, customers, and stakeholders
Move with Balance & Precision: We believe speed and perseverance must be accompanied by thoughtfulness and reflection
Leave the World a Better Place: We are passionate about our mission, and we strive to create a sustainable world for future generations

Base Pay Range

$130,000-$200,000

This is the estimated base salary range for this position, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs.

Benefits and Employee Perks 

  • Competitive compensation and equity grant at a high-growth start up 
  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance, and 401k 
  • Flexible hours and unlimited PTO 
  • Diverse and inclusive working environment 

Verse is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and compensation without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.

 

 

 

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