Full-Time
Senior Product Manager
Hardware
Gridware
51-200 employees
Real-time grid monitoring and predictive maintenance
Compensation Overview
$170k - $195k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience working with complex hardware products.
- At least 7 years of professional experience, ideally in hardware product management or closely related technical roles.
- Experience managing hardware products through the full lifecycle, including concept, development, validation, manufacturing, and launch.
- Strong technical acumen in hardware systems, including electronics, mechanical assemblies, sensors, and embedded systems.
- Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while building processes as needed.
- Ability to communicate effectively across disciplines and influence without authority.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a bias toward action.
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for hardware products, from concept and requirements through development, manufacturing, and launch.
- Develop and maintain hardware product roadmaps aligned with company strategy and customer needs.
- Gather and synthesize customer, market, and competitive insights to inform product strategy and prioritization.
- Write product requirements and specifications while balancing technical feasibility, cost, and user experience.
- Partner with hardware engineering, firmware, and software teams to define system architectures and product trade-offs.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to ensure manufacturability, cost targets, and quality standards are met.
- Establish product development processes and best practices for hardware product management.
- Help define and track key product metrics and success criteria.
- Serve as an interface between technical teams and commercial stakeholders to align on timelines, risks, and deliverables.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers and hardware supply chains.
- Experience with cloud-connected hardware and modern software systems.
Gridware provides a sensor-based platform that monitors electrical grid assets in real time by placing sensors on power poles. Real-time data from pole-mounted sensors is sent to analytics that detect imminent faults and wildfire hazards, enabling preventive maintenance. It differentiates itself with pole-mounted hardware and predictive analytics aimed specifically at reducing wildfire risk in wildfire-prone regions. Its goal is to improve public safety and grid reliability while lowering outages and wildfire-related liabilities for utilities.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$97.3M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- November 17, 2025 Series B raised $55 million from Tiger Global and Generation.
- February 4, 2026 study showed AGR reduced wildfire ignitions and improved reliability.
- UK and Europe expansion aligns with Ofgem's 2026-2031 grid upgrades and data-center demand.
What critics are saying
- Hardware deployments require pole access and manufacturing scale; delays choke 2026 revenue.
- Utilities buy slowly; Gridware's 118 employees and zero 2026 hires signal execution strain.
- Siemens, Schneider, and utility-owned sensor programs can commoditize hazard detection and squeeze margins.
What makes Gridware unique
- Gridscope multi-sensors measure physical, electrical, structural, environmental signals on utility poles.
- Active Grid Response removes hazard-awareness delay with edge and network-level analysis.
- PG&E and Duquesne Light deployments prove utility-grade adoption across thousands of poles.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
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↓ -1%Gridware, which makes sensors to evaluate electrical grid integrity and monitor power line hazards, has raised $55 million in a Series B round led by Al Gore's Generation Investment Management. The startup, which emerged from the CITRIS Foundry in spring 2020, plans to expand into Europe, beginning with the United Kingdom. The company's technology has reduced outages by up to 70% in some cases by preventing failures in advance or accelerating restoration after storms, according to CEO Tim Barat. The expansion comes as Ofgem, Great Britain's energy regulator, pursues an £80 billion network upgrade to accommodate increasing renewable power sources and surging data centre demand. Gridware's operational efficiency improvements aim to offset rising network expenses associated with the infrastructure upgrades.
Gridware raises $55M in Growth funding. Gridware, a San Francisco, CA-based grid-technology company, raised $55M in Growth funding. The round was led by Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management with participation from Sequoia Capital, Convective Capital, Fifty Years, True Ventures, Lowercarbon, and Y Combinator. The company intends to use the funds to expand its manufacturing capacity and scale deployment operations. Led by CEO Tim Barat, Gridware is a grid-technology company dedicated to improving safety and reliability on the electrical transmission and distribution systems. Its technology monitors the physical, mechanical, and environmental conditions of utility infrastructure to identify issues early, reduce outages, and support faster restoration. Its pole-mounted Gridscope system enables Active Grid Response (AGR) by measuring mechanical, electrical, and environmental signals and enabling real-time understanding of grid conditions, identifying hazards as they emerge.
Ventiva, developer of a thermal management technology designed to bridge the gap between active and passive thermal management in a solid-state form factor, raised $24.34 million through a combination of debt, Series C1 and Series C2 venture funding in a deal led by IAG Capital Partners.
Gridware last week raised $26.4 million in Series A financing, led by Seqoia Capital, with participation from existing backers Fifty Years, Lowercarbon Capital, True Ventures, and Convective Capital.
Gridware, a continuous power grid monitoring solution provider, today announced its Series A funding of $26.4 million led by Sequoia Capital.