Senior Project Strategist

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power. The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. Mainspring also partners with global energy leaders including AEP, Next Era Energy Resources, Schneider Electric, and more.

The core values that ground our work, guide our decisions, and connect us together:

• Pragmatic Optimism
• Excellence without Ego
• Proactive Collaboration

At Mainspring, Product Managers sit at the intersection of engineering, sales, marketing, installation, and maintenance. The Project Strategist sits one step further out, at the boundary between the product Mainspring repeats at every large site and the full site a customer is buying. This role defines everything in between, from balance of plant and switch gear to the equipment Mainspring may have to partner to supply and the customer-facing side of site communications and controls.

It is the externally facing counterpart to the product owner of that repeatable suite, so a large part of the job is understanding what customers expect a linear generator site to do, how they expect to monitor and dispatch it, and what it has to connect to on their site. Our ideal Project Strategist has developed, engineered, or built power generation sites and can hold a technical conversation with an EPC, a utility interconnection engineer, and a data center owner in the same week.

They enjoy taking an ambiguous set of customer expectations and turning it into a project development plan a company can execute and stand behind. Most importantly, they can make strategic decisions about what Mainspring must standardize as part of our site project offering, to reduce variability and increase reliability across sites.

• Define the site requirements that sit between the product Mainspring repeats at every site and the full project a customer buys, covering balance of plant, switch gear, equipment such as transformers that may be sourced through partners, and the customer-facing side of site communications and connectivity
• Partner with the Applications Engineering team to distill site product requirements out of the design work they produce on the sites Mainspring builds today, so project experience becomes documented product requirements rather than tribal knowledge
• Interface directly with customers to understand what they want from a linear generator site, including how they expect to monitor, control, and dispatch it alongside their own systems, and quantify the gap between the product Mainspring offers today and the project the customer is buying
• Define how a Mainspring site integrates with the systems it has to operate alongside (e.g. building management and energy management systems, solar, battery energy storage, and other distributed energy resources), so integration requirements come from the market rather than from one project at a time
• Carry the customer and market view of that boundary into the product requirements owned by the Product Architect, so the communications and connectivity protocols and telemetry that Mainspring standardizes across every large site is what customers and their integrators can actually connect to and utilize
• Translate the large-project strategy into Mainspring's smaller behind-the-meter sites, so the product a behind-the-meter customer receives (communications and connectivity included) carries as little variability as possible, even though customer use cases…