Technical Product Manager — Energy Services

Summary

We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to own HeyCharge’s energy-services product line — the V2G/V2H, demand response, dynamic-tariff, and energy management features that turn our EV charging platform into a grid-aware energy system. You’ll be the bridge between users, external technical requirements (utilities, TSOs, ISOs, standards bodies), and our engineering team — translating regulatory and grid-side complexity in both Europe and North America into product specifications that hardware, firmware, and backend can build against.

This is a strategic hire backed by capital that’s already on our balance sheet. Our €2.5M EIC Accelerator grant explicitly funds the development of our next-generation energy management features — and we’re hiring you to define what those features are, in what order they ship, and how they meet the genuinely different demands of European TSO/DSO programs and North American ISO markets. You’ll design entire products from the ground up, plus end-to-end features integrated across our existing hardware and software platforms. Reports to the CEO.

You’ll work in close partnership with our Technical Product Manager — Platform, who owns the underlying platform you’ll build on top of. Together, you’ll deliver energy features end-to-end across an astonishing surface area: the SecureCharge Module (our embedded module inside charger hardware), the CONNECT line of gateway and connectivity add-ons, the mobile apps, the mobile SDK, the backend services, and the web frontends. Energy features in the HeyCharge ecosystem don’t live in one component — they touch all of them, and they only work when every piece moves in concert.

About HeyCharge

HeyCharge makes EV charging work in places it was never supposed to — underground garages, multi-tenant buildings, and any other concrete-and-rebar environment where cellular signal goes to die. Our offline-first SecureCharge platform uses Bluetooth for local session authentication and Zigbee mesh for inter-charger load management and cloud sync. No internet required at the charger; no compromise on reliability or billing accuracy.

We’re Munich-headquartered with team members across Germany, Ukraine, and the US, selling into property managers, utilities, and OEMs across Europe, the US, and Latin America. Our partners include Vonovia (Europe’s largest residential landlord), Easee and Emobi. We’re backed by Y Combinator and EU innovation funding, with a culture that’s Google-rooted on engineering, AI-first and automation-first on operations, and allergic to bureaucracy that doesn’t earn its keep.

Responsibilities

• Energy product strategy. Own the roadmap for HeyCharge’s energy-services capabilities — V2G/V2H, demand response participation, dynamic tariffs, time-of-use optimization, and grid-services revenue products.
• Domain expertise. Research and maintain expert knowledge of energy management, demand response programs, V2G/V2H standards, and dynamic tariff structures across European and North American markets. You’re our internal authority.
• Product design. Design entire products from concept to spec — standalone energy-service products and end-to-end features that integrate into our existing hardware and software stack.
• External translation. Translate regulatory, utility, and grid-operator technical requirements (EU and NA) into concrete product requirements engineering can build against.
• User input. Talk to users — property managers, fleet operators, energy retailers, utilities — and translate their problems into product decisions.
• Platform partnership. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the Technical Product Manager — Platform to ship energy features end-to-end across SecureCharge Module, CONNECT, mobile apps, SDK, backend, and web. You design the energy feature; together you decide which surfaces it touches and in what order they ship.
• Cross-functional shipping. Partner with embedded, backend, mobile, and hardware engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions across the stack. Hold the line on scope and timeline.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management roles, with at least 2-3 in energy, cleantech, grid-tech, mobility, or an adjacent regulated technical domain.
• Working knowledge of at least two of: V2G/V2H standards (ISO 15118, CHAdeMO-V2X, etc.), demand response program mechanics (capacity, frequency, energy markets), dynamic tariff structures (time-of-use, RTP, capacity-based), or energy management systems.
• Strong technical fluency — you’ve owned products spanning hardware and software. You can read a protocol spec, a schematic block diagram, and a tariff document without panicking.
• Demonstrated ability to translate external technical requirements (regulatory, utility, standards body) into actionable engineering specifications.
• Excellent written communication in English. German is a plus but not required.
• Comfort working across European AND North American grid and regulatory landscapes — you understand the differences between an ENTSO-E and a NERC environment, and you don’t assume EU patterns transfer to NA or vice versa.

Bonus Points

• Direct experience with OCPP 1.6 / 2.0.1 in the context of smart charging or load management.
• Experience submitting or operating products under specific demand-response programs (PJM, CAISO, ERCOT, or EU TSO/DSO programs).
• Background in residential or multi-family energy systems (solar PV, battery storage, smart home energy).
• Familiarity with hardware product development cycles — firmware OTA, board revisions, hardware lifecycle.
• Direct experience with the EIC Accelerator program or other EU innovation-funding instruments.
• Engineering or physics background — you’ve written code or read circuit diagrams in previous lives.

Personal Characteristics

• Builder mindset — you create order, structure, and systems that make life easier; you reach for the spec doc before the slide deck.
• Ownership mentality — you take responsibility for what your products do in the wild, including the parts that aren’t fun to debug.
• Hands-on and pragmatic — you’d rather solve a problem than write a memo about it; you read the standard, the schematic, and the tariff yourself rather than waiting for someone to summarize them.
• Strategic yet hands-on — equally comfortable presenting a 3-year product roadmap to the CEO and drilling into a specific OCPP message exchange with a backend engineer.
• Detail-oriented — in energy systems, the details (5-minute vs 15-minute intervals, voltage classes, market settlement windows) are where products live or die. You catch them.

Who this role is not for

• If your view of energy services is primarily regulatory and policy commentary — without the appetite to translate it into concrete product specs that engineering can actually build — this is the wrong environment. We need a partner with views on the spec, not a position paper.
• If you’ve spent your career in one market (EU only, or NA only) and the idea of holding both rate-structure mental models simultaneously feels exhausting, this role will exhaust you.
• If you need a team of analysts or domain SMEs around you before you can produce results, this isn’t the right stage. You ARE the domain authority for the first 12–18 months — reading the standards, talking to the utilities, writing the specs yourself. The team comes after the function is proven.
• If your reflex to ambiguity is to escalate, document the risk, and wait for instructions, you’ll be miserable inside 90 days. We move faster than that.
• If “design entire products from the ground up” sounds aspirational rather than what you’ve actually done — be honest with yourself about it. The job is the building, not the framing.

Closing

If you want to define the products that turn EV charging from an end-use load into a grid-aware energy system — and you want to do it across two of the most consequential energy markets in the world — we’d love to hear from you. The funding is real, the strategy is committed, and we’re hiring the person who’ll shape what we build next.