What to Expect

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.

Our first focus goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron Power’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products over the past decade.

We understand that no one individual knows everything. We will all learn a lot together and from each other. We strive to build a collaborative, enriching environment conducive to personal, technical, and career growth. You can expect to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, driven by first principles engineering, solving difficult problems.

Job Overview

As the Engineering Program Manager for Heron Power’s next-gen power conversion product, you will lead the end to end product launch in accordance with critical technical and business objectives. In this cross-functional role, you’ll serve as the bridge between engineering, reliability, compliance, test, supply chain, and operations teams to ensure targets for timing, cost, and reliability are met or exceeded. You’ll drive technical discussions around product requirements and proactively identify, communicate, and mitigate risks to enable a successful launch. Step into a high-visibility role at the forefront of cutting-edge power electronics, where you’ll shape breakthrough technology and build a no-surprises culture from the ground-up.

How You Will Contribute

· Lead the end-to-end execution of Heron Power’s first product launch – translating high-level goals into structured technical milestones across concept, validation and manufacturing launch

· Act as the bridge across hardware, firmware, test, reliability, supply chain, test and compliance teams to establish program plan of record and drive milestone execution

· Collaboratively fact-find with stakeholders to align product requirements and risks to validation and launch deliverables as a pulse of program health

· Identify requirements and establish strategy to deliver on-time NPI materials as the engineering Bill of Materials owner, in collaboration with supply-chain and engineering teams

· Define and execute engineering program deliverables, including decision gates, validation requirements, design reviews and retirement of identified risks from DFMEA

· Own risk visibility and champion a “no surprises culture”: raise flags early, clearly and loudly to ensure the right conversations happen before issues become unavoidable program blockers

· Be a force multiplier: increase team velocity, reduce ambiguity, and raise the bar on execution excellence across the orgnaization

What You Will Bring

We have a short list of must-have requirements. We prioritize a strong grip on first principles, hands-on skills, and a sense of initiative. Domain-specific knowledge and experience will help determine the career level for each hire.

Must-Have Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering or equivalent and demonstrated exceptional ability

· 5+ years of experience managing complex technical programs or projects

· Proficient in CAD, PLM, BOM management and change management processes

· Proficient in using Project Management tools to establish right-to-left gantt representation of programs, including identification of critical path

· Familiarity with DFM principles and ability to collaborate closely with design and build teams to ensure successful prototype builds

· Strong technical foundation and ability to understand and triage nuanced engineering details

· Hands-on experience leading product launches across the full lifecycle-from concept through to manufacturing

· Exception ability to absorb and distill program complexity to drive meaningful program risk reduction

· Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset, capable of influencing engineering, operations and executive teams

· Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment, and is comfortable building from scratch

· Excellent problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail

Nice-to-Haves

· Experience with and knowledge of power electronics, inverters, rectifiers, transformers

· Hands-on experience with power electronics design or validation testing

· Familiarity with Enovia PLM, CATIA design software and simulation and modeling tools, such as PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink, a plus

· Familiarity with relevant UL and IEC compliance standards

· Proficiency in Project Management tools, such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence), Asana, Notion

If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron Power.

Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $200,000 per year.