Technical Project / Product Manager
First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026.
We’re looking for the first product and project manager to take it from a working MVP to a product the market pays for. Nobody owns this function yet. You build it.
The product
An energy management system for solar, wind and battery storage plants: monitoring, plant control, forecasting, electricity trading and a 24/7 dispatcher console. Customers are power plant owners and energy service companies in Europe.
Where it stands
The MVP is live and runs real power plants in production
A full-time engineering team is forming around it and growing to 10+ people: backend, frontend, QA, SRE, cybersecurity
There is no product process yet: requirements and the roadmap live in the heads of the leadership team
Your role
You work directly with the Founder and own backlog priorities. Roughly 60% product, 40% delivery.
Product
- Run customer development and market research with plant owners and decision-makers
- Test prototypes with real users before engineering builds anything
- Build the product strategy, roadmap and OKRs with the Founder
- Turn business goals into epics and functional specs, and keep the backlog dev-ready two sprints ahead, for engineers and AI-agent pipelines
Delivery
- Set a predictable release rhythm and manage dependencies across Backend, Frontend, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and SRE
- Give the final sign-off before release: what was built must match the business logic and the user need
- First 3 months: a product strategy and OKRs agreed with the Founder, and a working pipeline from idea to functional spec to development.
Requirements
- 6+ years as a Technical Product or Project Manager in a complex domain. Energy is ideal; logistics, telecom or industrial automation also fit
- Hands-on B2B discovery: you talked to customers yourself and turned what you learned into product decisions
- You have defined product strategy and OKRs, and taken work from roadmap down to detailed functional specs
- Technical fluency: you read API docs, understand data models and can discuss architecture with a Backend Lead or SRE
- English B2+, C1 preferred
You’ll fit if you stay effective when requirements shift fast, put user value ahead of process, and treat senior engineers as partners in scope and architecture.