Market & Business Development Leader - Energy Storage

Location: North Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Up to approximately 25% travel to customers, plants, or labs. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment sponsorship is not available.

Company

hirify.global develops materials and chemical innovations that purify, protect, and enhance products and infrastructure, including solutions for energy storage markets.

What you will do

• Lead commercial strategy and portfolio prioritization for emerging battery materials and energy storage technologies.
• Assess competitive landscapes, adjacent technologies, customer requirements, market segments, and applications.
• Conduct customer discovery with users, buyers, engineers, and product specifiers to validate needs and adoption criteria.
• Translate customer insights into value propositions, technical development priorities, and Stage Gate decisions.
• Define early commercialization strategies, including positioning, pricing logic, market messaging, trials, specifications, and qualifications.
• Collaborate with Research & Technology, Operations, Supply Chain, and commercial teams to prepare promising opportunities for sales.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of commercial leadership experience in the battery or energy storage industry, with knowledge of suppliers, competitors, and the value chain.
• Broad techno-economic understanding of battery technologies and applications, plus experience moving concepts toward customer testing or trials.
• Experience with technically differentiated or IP-protected products and specification-driven markets such as automotive, electronics, or industrial materials.
• Experience prioritizing emerging technology portfolios, influencing investment decisions, and working with R&D, engineering, or technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry, materials, business, or a similar field.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and able to work without employment sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience coaching or leading business development, product, or commercial team members.
• Experience managing multi-year platform strategy or multi-function commercial and technical teams.
• MBA or technical graduate degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within the Performance Materials team.
• Hands-on customer testing, trials, and collaboration with technical teams.
• Regular customer, plant, and laboratory travel of up to approximately 25%.
• Work focused on developing sustainable solutions and commercializing innovations for energy storage.