Senior Product Manager - VPP

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) team. In this role, you'll lead product for our VPP team, who are responsible for the software that collects grid signals, schedules EV charging, and processes charging data to deliver flexible energy services to utilities. You'll own the product vision and strategy for our VPP platform, manage roadmapping and quarterly planning, drive organisational alignment, and lead delivery of key commercial projects. You'll work with a team of 4 excellent engineers.

This is a high-impact role reporting to the Director of Product Management. Our VPP is among the largest EV VPPs in the world: in 2025, it managed more than 200 GWh of energy and delivered £8.5M in user benefits. We're looking for someone who's ambitious, collaborative, a bit of a maverick, and deeply motivated by making a real difference for the planet. If you're excited about the future of clean energy and love working on cutting-edge AI-driven grid technology, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Be Doing

• Define VPP vision and strategy: Own the product vision and 12-month strategy for our VPP platform, informed by regulatory developments, competitive dynamics, commercial opportunities, and emerging market trends across US, UK, and EU grid services markets.
• Lead technical selling: Serve as the technical product expert in prospect pitches and customer demos, articulate our VPP capabilities and competitive advantages, and prepare technical content for RFP submissions to help win new utility partnerships.
• Drive AI-first innovation: Lead the integration of AI/ML models and data-driven insights into VPP operations—whether that's optimising charging decisions, automating operational workflows, improving data quality processes, or creating intelligent internal tools that multiply team productivity.
• Lead planning and prioritisation: Lead sprint and quarterly planning for the VPP team through collecting input from other product teams, tracking sales commitments, drafting OKRs, and reconciling stakeholder asks.
• Be the VPP domain expert: Serve as one of our resident experts in grid services, VPP operations, and distributed energy resources, answering questions internally and externally about how our VPP works and where the market is heading.
• Manage projects: Lead project management for technical sales-driven engagements such as partner migrations, customer projects, and pilot programs.
• Drive organisational alignment: Communicate the VPP team's work across the organisation through initiative briefs, progress updates, launch announcements, and executive reporting—ensuring leadership and cross-functional stakeholders understand our direction and impact.

What Are We Looking For?

• Product Management: 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in technical domains such as energy, IoT, or backend systems.
• AI capabilities: You’ve built AI-powered products and features that have demonstrated commercial or operational impact. You have experience working with data science and engineering teams to launch AI/ML-powered optimisation systems, predictive models, or intelligent agents that make autonomous decisions based on complex, dynamic inputs.
• VPP platform: Deep experience building VPP or demand response platforms, including integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) such as EV chargers, batteries, solar inverters, or thermostats into aggregated control systems. Familiarity with grid integration standards and protocols such as IEEE 2030.5, OpenADR, IEEE 1547, or similar communication and interoperability standards.
• Grid services commercialisation: Proven track record commercialising and monetising grid assets with utilities, system operators, or in wholesale energy markets. You understand the grid services value stack (frequency response, demand response, capacity markets, energy arbitrage, etc.), how different DER technologies contribute value, and the regulatory and commercial dynamics shaping VPP markets in the US, UK, and EU.
• Communication: You have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences—from engineers to executives to customers. You're particularly strong at upward communication and keeping senior leadership informed and aligned.
• Technical selling: You know how to present technical products to prospects and customers. You can articulate complex capabilities in compelling ways, handle technical objections, lead product demos, and contribute meaningfully to pitches and RFP responses. You've won business through effective technical selling.
• Execution: You're highly organised and on top of everything. You're the reliable source of truth for what the team is building, when it will ship, and what the status is. You drive precise execution while managing complexity and ambiguity. You have strong project management skills, especially for high-stakes external engagements.
• Engineering collaboration: You build strong partnerships with engineering leadership and know when to roll up your sleeves on critical details while maintaining strategic focus.
• Handling ambiguity: You’re comfortable working in high pace, dynamic, ambiguous startup environments where responsibilities shift as product and market needs evolve.

Location & Work Hours

This role is fully remote in the UK. Unfortunately we’re not able to provide visa sponsorship right now. The majority of people at ev.energy work on a fully remote basis, with a small number of roles based on-site in our testing sites. This means that most of our people work from home, but we're happy to provide co-working subscriptions if you'd like to spend time at a WeWork (or other co-working space close to you). We balance our remote set up by getting everyone together once a year for an offsite, as we know that spending time together IRL is super important.

The salary range for this role is: £68,800-£84,300 (offer dependent on experience)

Benefits

• Equity, in the form of share options (granted as a % of your salary).
• PMI and cash plan medical cover (via Bupa & Medicash).
• Life assurance of 3x your salary.
• Co-working access via WeWork (on-demand or subscription).
• Annual 'Team Week' whole company offsite.
• L&D allowance of £1,000 per year.

You can find out more about our full range of perks and benefits here. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity: we do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. If you'd like a copy of our DE&I policy you can reach us at hiring@ev.energy. We'll always do our best to accommodate reasonable adjustments to the interview process if needed - just let us know.