Senior Director, Full Stack Product

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 Description

Gridware is a full stack product operation building frontier technol ogy for utility customers to stop hazards and outages on the electric grid . As a full stack company, w e are not a hardware company, nor a software company, nor a data company, nor a services company – we are all of those together . We design and manufacture hardware , install in the field , manage a fleet of devices across the US and Canada, and run real-time 24/7 continuous monitoring service to ensure a safe and reliable electric grid . Our customer profiles include utility dispatchers , asset engineers , wildfire mitigation leaders, local and sta t e regulators, utility executives , and field line crews - all who make high-consequence decisions using our platform.

We are on the hunt for a Sr. Director of Full Stack Product who is sincerely motivated by our mission, energized by our operational complexity , and genuinely wants to serve our customer base . A leader who is ready to help us reach the next stage of our growth, building on a base of strong product-market fit and real customer demand . You’ll have a full-breadth horizontal view across everything Gridware ships and be a critical leader in steering the full-stack product direction , partner ing closely with cross-functional lead ers (hardware, software, field, AI, go-to-market, etc ) and the C-Team to help Gridware continue to deliver high-value, industry -changing outcomes .

This leader reports directly to the COO/CPO and leads a team of ~10 and growing (across software product , hardware product , product marketing , and design ) .

Responsibilities Lead and develop a high-performing full-stack product team. Provide strategic context, coaching, and cover for our existing diverse and high-performing product team to do their best work while developing them into the next stages of their careers .

Champion deep, ongoing customer understanding and ensure t heir problems to solve are reflected in how we prioritize, what we ship, and how we position it. Support your team to conduct thorough research, make regular field visits, inspect data, and participate in critical customer conversations .

Drive prioritization discipline. Establish shared frameworks for evaluating customer impact, technical feasibility, revenue potential, regulatory requirements, and strategic fit. Make the hard trade-offs visible and facilitate the decisions that resolve them.

Set the bar for product operations. Build the rituals and artifacts that make product thinking institutional and ensure that product led thinking permeates the broader organization .

Support our go - to - market efforts. Support the product marketing team in clarif ying and unif ying our capabilities to drive measurable customer adoption and commercialization.

Integrate NPI/NTI from our R&D and Innovation teams into durable products , driving compounding impact. Support the process by which new product ideas and technology advance from R&D into product definition, validation, and go-to-market.

Required Skills 10 years in PM roles, with at least 5 years of organizational /team leadership experience . You've built and led teams of PMs, managed managers, and created product cultures that outlast any individual. You coach for growth, hold a high performance bar, and hire well.

Platform-level and/or full- stack product launch experience. You've operated in a product environment where software and hardware development are tightly coupled, where release cycles differ, and where the field , R&D , and upstream/downstream teams have real influence on product direction.

Customer fluency in complex operational domains. You've built products that support utilities, industrial operations, or other real-world infrastructure .

Structured prioritization and trade-off facilitation that serves a longer-term stra t egy . You have proven frameworks for making prioritization decisions under uncertainty and resource constraint with a cross-functional stakeholder set . You can hold a multi-year product arc in your head while managing a quarterly roadmap .

Demonstrated o peration al rigor . You've created or meaningfully improved a product operating model: the rituals, artifacts, and norms that make a distributed product team coherent and effective. You have an evidence-based approach for why process and program management a re as critical to product management as vision.

Strong cross-functional executive leadership and communication. You can write a crisp strategy document , give a concise product update that drives a decision, and know how to build alignment amongst diffe r ing perspectives.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with IoT platforms, sensor data, or grid/energy infrastructure Exposure to AI/ML-powered products where model output must be made legible and trustworthy to non-technical expert users

Familiarity with utility regulatory environments

Background in products with significant field operations or deployment com plexity

Experience driving platform consolidation or product portfolio rationalization

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! Gridware Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. 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 260000 - 290000 USD a year