Application Guide
How to Apply for Senior Staff Technical Program Manager
at Form Energy
🏢 About Form Energy
Form Energy is pioneering affordable, long-duration energy storage solutions that enable a reliable, 100% renewable electric grid. Unlike typical battery companies, they focus on multi-day storage technology that can fundamentally transform grid resilience and decarbonization. Working here means contributing directly to solving one of the most critical challenges in the clean energy transition.
About This Role
As Senior Staff Technical Program Manager at Form Energy, you'll bridge commercial and technical teams to translate customer needs into product roadmap requirements while managing large-scale, cross-functional programs. This role is impactful because you'll directly shape how Form Energy's innovative storage technology meets real-world grid needs and scales from development to deployment.
💡 A Day in the Life
You might start your day reviewing customer feedback with the commercial team, then translate those insights into technical requirements for engineering. Afternoon could involve coordinating with embedded project managers across battery development, systems engineering, and manufacturing teams to track progress against complex schedules, followed by preparing executive updates that synthesize technical milestones into business impacts.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Form Energy Is Looking For
- Has 7+ years specifically leading technical programs where they've translated business/customer requirements into engineering specifications (not just managing timelines)
- Demonstrates applied experience creating and managing complex technical schedules with embedded project managers across multiple teams
- Shows proven ability to synthesize complex technical data for diverse audiences from executives to engineering teams
- Possesses experience in hardware/energy/product development environments where they've implemented tools and processes to improve cross-functional workflow
📝 Tips for Applying to Form Energy
Highlight specific examples where you've 'distilled customer needs into technical requirements' - Form Energy explicitly wants this translation skill
Quantify your experience with 'large-scale, cross-functional technical programs' in the energy/hardware space, not just software projects
Demonstrate your 'applied experience' with technical schedules by describing specific tools/methods you've used (Gantt charts, critical path analysis, dependency mapping)
Show how you've 'defined and implemented effective tools/structures/procedures' - be prepared to discuss specific process improvements you've led
Research Form Energy's iron-air battery technology and mention how your experience aligns with scaling hardware from R&D to commercial deployment
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your experience translating between commercial teams and engineering teams in hardware/energy product development', 'Specific examples of managing technical programs with embedded project managers across multiple functions', "How you've synthesized complex technical data for executive stakeholders in past roles", 'Your approach to implementing tools and processes that improve cross-functional communication in technical organizations']
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Form Energy's iron-air battery technology and how it enables multi-day energy storage
- → The company's partnerships with utilities like Xcel Energy and Great River Energy
- → Challenges in long-duration energy storage and grid decarbonization
- → Form Energy's manufacturing facility in West Virginia and their scaling plans
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on software program management without hardware/energy sector experience
- Vague descriptions of 'managing projects' without specific examples of technical schedule creation and tracking
- Not demonstrating the translation between commercial needs and technical requirements that Form Energy explicitly requires
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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