Senior Product Manager, Data Center and Utility Solutions

Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.
Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.
We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:
Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com
Job Overview
As Senior Product Manager, Data Center and Utility Solutions, you will lead Mainspring’s product direction and competitive positioning in two of our most critical verticals. You’ll translate real-world customer pain points into actionable solution designs, support industry-aligned product development, and work with go-to-market teams to position our offering in a way that resonates with industry buyers.  This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of product, sales, and market strategy.

Industry Insight and Solution Development

• Further deepen our understanding of the evolving needs of data centers and utilities, including operational, economic, regulatory, corporate/cybersecurity risk management, and sustainability drivers.
• Work with other members of the Product team to enhance competitive analysis specific for the data center and utility markets across key use-cases.
• As the market continues to evolve, identify where Mainspring can most effectively compete and win, and surface the new capabilities — internal or third-party — required to do so.
• Articulate Mainspring value proposition by use case for data center and utility customers and how those value propositions translate into claims that Marketing and Sales/BD can use to proposition Mainspring solutions in the market
• Develop and validate reference solution designs with input from engineering, product, and external experts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with functionally-oriented product managers to translate industry requirements into roadmap priorities and align customer timing with product development cycles.
• Collaborate with Sales, BD, and Sales Engineering to support proposal development, customer conversations, and deployment planning.
• Partner with Product Marketing and Corporate Communications to develop compelling external narratives, whitepapers, and customer-facing materials.

Customer and Market Engagement

• Participate in customer meetings, industry events, and ecosystem discussions as a credible, technically fluent representative of Mainspring’s perspective.
• Develop strong relationships with key technical stakeholders at targeted customers, expanding our network and influence within the industry.
• Advocate for customer needs across the company and help refine how we communicate our