Product Leadership in Climate Tech: Building Impact in Regulated, Capital-Intensive Systems
Early in my product career, I worked on a tool used by market participants to make daily operational decisions in U.S. electricity markets. One afternoon, a customer called - not because something had crashed, but because the product was behaving slightly differently than expected during a rare market condition. The numbers were technically correct. The logic was sound. But the customer hesitated to act.
That moment stuck with me. In energy systems, correctness is necessary, but it isn’t sufficient. If users don’t trust a product enough to rely on it when stakes are high, the product has failed its most important job.
That lesson matters even more today. Climate tech is no longer a niche category. It is becoming core infrastructure. Electricity demand is rising again in the United States after years of relative stagnation, with the IEA now forecasting US power demand to grow at roughly 2% annually from...
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