Business Development Manager, Consumer TechnologyActive

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.

What you'll do

• Build, foster and maintain relationships with consumer technology companies: and device manufacturers to coordinate multi-level partnerships for the collection and recycling of lithium-ion battery materials. Align multiple locations and global stakeholders when necessary.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for consumer technology partnership,: managing end-to-end account relationships from initial engagement through long-term partnership execution. Understand each partner’s product lifecycle, sustainability commitments, and battery disposal needs to position Redwood as their preferred recycling partner.

• Manage the product qualification process with customers, understanding the: technical requirements for consumer device battery recycling, and communicate with key stakeholders internally and externally to manage qualification timelines and customers’ expectations.

• Accountable for making sure the business is on track: ensuring a strong mix of consumer technology partnerships, that we’re exceeding customer expectations, and that battery material is procured profitably considering sourcing cost, operating costs, and logistics cost to feed the machine that is producing the most sustainable battery materials in the world.

• Recognize customers’ product roadmaps and sustainability programs in detail,: aligning our resources to the right programs and priorities, as well as identifying future growth opportunities in the consumer electronics battery sourcing space.

• Understand customers’ value chain and the influences of each player in the: ecosystem. Direct global resources to manage the value chain appropriately as well as negotiate the various contracts (volume, prices, all other T&Cs) with customers.

What they're looking for

• Own business development and operational oversight for Redwood’s Battery Bin: program, including partner pipeline development, outreach, proposals, contracting, and expansion planning.
• Identify, prioritize, and develop relationships with Battery Bin host: partners, including retailers, municipalities, universities, nonprofits, and public agencies. Evaluate deployment opportunities and lead the end-to-end launch process from partner qualification through go-live and ongoing account management.
• Develop partnership models and partner-facing materials for Battery Bin: deployments, including grant-funded, leased, sponsored, or paid service structures, as well as pitch decks, implementation guides, FAQs, and related collateral.
• Track and report performance across consumer device partnerships and Battery: Bin sites, using data to improve partner targeting, operational efficiency, cost-to-serve, and overall program economics.