Business Development Manager, Consumer Technology (Battery Recycling)

Location: USA - Remote. Travel up to 25% may be required for meetings, tours, site visits, and program launches.

Company

hirify.global is localizing the battery supply chain through battery recovery, reuse, recycling, and production of battery materials in the United States.

What you will do

• Build and manage partnerships with consumer technology companies and device manufacturers for lithium-ion battery collection and recycling.
• Own end-to-end account relationships, including strategic planning, product qualification, customer expectations, contracts, pricing, volumes, and other commercial terms.
• Develop and oversee the Battery Bin program, including partner pipeline development, proposals, contracting, deployment planning, launches, and ongoing account management.
• Identify and develop Battery Bin host partnerships with retailers, municipalities, universities, nonprofits, and public agencies.
• Create partnership models and partner-facing materials for grant-funded, leased, sponsored, and paid service structures.
• Track partnership and site performance, improve targeting and operational efficiency, and coordinate with engineering, operations, logistics, legal, policy, communications, and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, sustainability, engineering, or a related field.
• More than 10 years of sales, business development, or technical sales experience.
• Experience in consumer electronics or the lithium-ion battery industry is strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of consumer technology product lifecycles, sustainability initiatives, and circular economy programs.
• Experience building and scaling partner, channel, distributed collection, or deployment programs.
• Fluent English required for global communication and account leadership.
• Strong leadership, communication, relationship-building, data analysis, and KPI management skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with compensation commensurate with experience.
• Mission focused on sustainable battery materials, resource recovery, and the energy transition.
• Work involves entrepreneurial problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and complex industry-building initiatives.