Senior Product Manager, Environmental, Social & Governance

Form Energy is a team of passionate people tackling the challenge of climate change through transformationally low cost energy storage. Our team members are active learners who enjoy working on tough technology problems in massive markets and embody our values of humanity, excellence and creativity. The company is backed by a diverse set of committed investors and we have raised over $360M to date.Role DescriptionThe Senior Product Manager, ESG will be responsible for ensuring Form’s products align with our mission: energy storage for a better world. In this role, you will help define the product requirements for our multi-day storage battery to ensure we adhere to the right environmental standards and end-of-life standards. In addition, you will work cross-functionality with our policy and finance teams to identify the business case, key metrics, and top priorities for building an ESG program at Form. The Battery Product Management team is a passionate, dynamic team that works across the company, including our engineering, supply chain, finance, policy, and executive teams to ensure we deliver the right products.

What You'll Do:

• Define the recycling standard and end-of-life strategy for our products, given the competitive and regulatory landscape, technical and supply chain requirements, and business case for Form
• Define battery product requirements required to ensure environmental compliance within the U.S. and in future markets (e.g., EU)
• Author an environmental impact assessment for our product, partnering cross-functionally with our customer, policy, supply chain, battery products, and analytics teams to identify the right key metrics to track & methodology to conduct analysis
• Support structuring the business case for incorporating ESG at Form, by partnering cross-functionally with functional leaders in the supply chain, battery products, analytics, and finance teams to define key metrics

What You'll Bring:

• Strong perspective of industry standards for recyclability and end-of-life requirements for clean energy hardware technologies, ideally for battery technologies
• Excellent cross-functional collaborator: experience working with finance, supply chain, and product teams to identify opportunities and implement new programs related to sustainability
• Minimum three years experience working on environmental impact assessments, compliance, or other hardware challenges in close collaboration with engineers
• Understanding of how to conduct an environmental impact assessment for a new battery technology, critical metrics to track, and how to position this relative to other technologies
• Strategic and data-driven mindset: able to build a compelling business case for product requirements or ESG program recommendations, acknowledging related costs or program considerations
• Ideally have working knowledge of the environmental regulatory landscape for battery technologies (e.g., RCRA, TSCA) and how these should translate to product requirements or considerations
• Ideally have working understanding of strategic drivers and fundamental trade-offs for implementing ESG programs
• Able to work in a collaborative, dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Generous team player: excited to work cross-functionally with a variety of teams to deliver towards shared objectives
• Comfortable with ambiguously-defined problems, and willingness to work toward clarity independently
• Outstanding written and oral communicator, able to build convincing arguments in clear documentation (e.g., environmental impact assessment)
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or environmental-related field (graduate degree preferred)

Form Energy is committed to equitable compensation and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. We offer a 401k and all employees are granted stock options. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page. At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.