Senior Manager, PLM Engineering Tools & Systems

Company Overview Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless reaction with near-zero NOx emissions. Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Catalyst Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion. Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers. We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values: Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth. Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors. Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com Job Overview At Mainspring, we are driven to create a better, more sustainable future by delivering innovative power generation technology. As our products, fleet, and operational complexity continue to scale, we are seeking a Senior Manager, PLM Engineering Tools & Systems leader to own PLM as a cross-functional business program and ensure it delivers measurable value across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Field Service. You will serve as the strategic business owner for Product Lifecycle Management at Mainspring—defining the roadmap, aligning leadership across functions, driving adoption and process change, helping prioritize work, identifying resource gaps, and ensuring PLM capabilities improve how we design, release, manufacture, trace, and service products across the full lifecycle. This role will partner closely with the PLM technical leader and internal development resources to keep the system running, implement new features, cross-functionally plan platform upgrades, and improve integrations across connected business systems. While the technical team focuses on platform health and implementation, this role will focus on direction, governance, execution, and organizational alignment. This role is a Hybrid role at Mainspring’s Headquarters in Menlo Park, CA.