Product Director (m/f/x)

Skeleton's Advanced Engineering Department is looking for a driven and experienced

Product Director (m/f/x).

As Product Director, you will serve as the CPO’s right-hand and become the driving force behind Skeleton’s product evolution. This is a high-impact, strategic leadership role combining deep technical understanding, customer intimacy, and strong execution. You will own the full product lifecycle for our next-generation energy storage solutions – with a particular focus on winning and delivering in the rapidly growing datacenter market.

Your responsibility areas:

• Serve as the CPO’s trusted deputy and strategic partner.
• Define and maintain the company-wide Product Strategy and multi-year technology and product roadmap.
• Lead cross-functional critical projects from concept to high-volume delivery.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers (especially hyperscale/datacenter customers) and strategic suppliers.
• Drive market intelligence: deep understanding of customer needs, market trends, technology developments, and regulatory landscape.
• Continuously monitor and analyze the competitive landscape (ultracapacitors, lithium-ion, flywheels, alternative technologies).
• Collaborate closely with R&D, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to align roadmap with technical feasibility, manufacturing scale-up, and commercial goals.
• Represent Skeleton Technologies externally at industry conferences, customer meetings, and partner negotiations.

Requirements

• MSc in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Energy Systems, or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in product management/product leadership within energy storage, power electronics, battery systems, or related high-tech hardware industries.
• Proven track record of bringing complex hardware products from concept to high-volume production.
• Deep customer-facing experience, ideally with Tier-1 OEMs or hyperscale/datacenter customers.
• Strong technical foundation combined with commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
• Experience in building and leading high-performing cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (fluent English required; German, Finnish or Estonian is a plus).
• Willingness to travel (20–30%).
  

Preferred Additional Qualifications

• Experience in ultracapacitors, supercapacitors, or hybrid energy storage systems.
• Background in datacenter power infrastructure or high-power applications.
• Previous success in scaling products in fast-growing, capital-intensive industries.

Benefits

• We offer flexible working hours, with the possibility of mobile working without core working hours and sufficient freedom for your own ideas.
• A flat hierarchy culture - fostering our great working atmosphere.
• A motivating opportunity for continuous growth at Skeleton.
• An additional day off every year for your birthday.
  

We're not just about energy storage. We're about redefining energy for a net-zero future, and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

About Skeleton

Skeleton Technologies is a Global Cleantech 100 company and a technology leader in high-power energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive, and industrial applications.

For us, developing and producing the best energy storage solutions is a means to an end: helping companies to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy.

We work with some of the largest companies in the world, from automotive and industrial OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors. Our products decrease CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, improve power quality, and empower wider electrification of the biggest industries globally.

Our supercapacitor and SuperBattery energy storage technologies, based on patented curved graphene, represent the biggest technological advancement in the industry in the last 20 years, and the use of this innovative material provides our products with an unparalleled advantage in power and energy density.

Skeleton Technologies is located in multiple locations: its headquarters in Tallinn (Estonia), manufacturing facilities in Markranstädt (Germany) and Varkaus (Finland), materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, and several additional locations in Finland (Helsinki and Lappeenranta), as well as its first people in Toulouse (France).