Key Accounts Manager

Lithos Energy designs and builds advanced lithium-ion battery packs from the ground up for use in high-performance automotive, marine and aerospace applications. We build the things we design and manufacture in-house, in California. We are a growing team of experienced engineers and pride ourselves in our ability to deliver reliable, high quality and safe products to our customers.

We are seeking doers, highly skilled and self-motivated individuals who are able to thrive in rapidly changing, entrepreneurial environments. If you are genuinely passionate about electric vehicles, power systems and in building real products, you will be enabled, and expected, to innovate, create and have a substantial impact on the company. We have built a team of accomplished engineers working on perhaps the most important technologies being developed today.

Overview

As a Key Account Manager, you will be supporting a wide range of customer leadership and management tasks in our Sales and Marketing team. We are launching multiple new products for a key customer, and need a motivated, experienced, commercial leader and problem solver to manage rapid customer growth across a range of battery systems and products. This is a great opportunity to make an impact as we launch these products by leading our customer interaction on this growing book of business. We highly value strong, positive, and long-term customer relationships, based on product excellence and customer leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Be primary and lead point of communication for a key customer, both to the customer and internally.
• Oversight of customer deliverables, pricing, and timing.
• Work closely with our engineering and program management team as the main voice to the customer.
• Support profit margin goals, and manage a significant number of tooling, NRE, prototype, and production PO’s and associated changes and updates.
• Lead and maximize customer satisfaction for tangible deliverables and strong 2-way external an internal communication. This on-site position will be located in our main office and manufacturing facility in Hayward, California.

Qualifications

• Engineering or business degree
• 5-10 years customer-facing experience.
• Demonstrated excellence in customer service excellence.
• Ability to lead both Product and Finance focused internal and external meetings.
• Hands on, action oriented, and customer focused.
• Up to 25% domestic US travel.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in batteries or clean energy is a plus.
• Experience in automotive, EV, or other mobility products is a plus.
• Experience in off-road machines or industry is a plus.

Salary - 150-200K + Equity - DEO

Lithos Energy, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.