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.
Job Overview
As Technical Program Manager for Heron Power's next-generation power conversion platform, you will own the technical execution of the product roadmap from architecture through manufacturing launch.
How You Will Contribute
Own and drive the end-to-end technical execution of Heron Power's first product launch, translating system-level goals into structured, engineering-driven milestones across concept, architecture, validation, and launch
Drive deep coordination between power electronics, firmware/software, and systems integration teams, ensuring hardware and control-software roadmaps are tightly aligned and risks at the interfaces are actively managed
Lead program planning and execution across hardware design, embedded firmware, controls, test, reliability, compliance, supply chain, and manufacturing, with a clear plan of record and critical-path ownership
Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams
Facilitate and contribute to technical design reviews, including architecture reviews, design readiness reviews, and validation readiness reviews, with sufficient depth to surface real risks
Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with power electronics engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability
Establish and track DFMEA-driven risk management, ensuring risks across design, firmware behavior, system integration, and manufacturing are identified, mitigated, and retired
Be the steward of a "no surprises" culture: proactively surface technical and execution risks early, drive clarity, and ensure issues are addressed before they become program-blocking failures
Act as a force multiplier across the organization - increasing engineering velocity, reducing ambiguity at interfaces, and raising the bar on execution discipline without slowing innovation
Requirements
We are looking for someone who combines strong program leadership with real technical credibility in power electronics systems. This role rewards people who are comfortable going deep, asking hard questions, and bridging disciplines.
Must-Have Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (power electronics focus strongly preferred) or equivalent demonstrated technical depth
5+ years leading complex, multidisciplinary engineering programs, ideally involving power electronics, embedded firmware, or tightly coupled hardware-software systems
Strong technical foundation in power electronics systems, with the ability to understand converter architectures, control strategies, and system-level tradeoffs well enough to guide execution
Demonstrated ability to work deeply with firmware/software teams, including understanding control loops, timing constraints, interfaces, and hardware-software dependencies
Experience driving programs from concept through validation and manufacturing launch, including prototype builds and design iterations
Strong grasp of DFM principles and the realities of building, testing, and scaling power electronics hardware
Proven ability to distill complex technical programs into clear risks, decisions, and pri
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