Business Development Manager, Consumer Technology
About the role
About Redwood Materials
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.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.
Business Development Manager – Consumer Technology
We are seeking a Business Development Manager – Consumer Technology, to join the team at Redwood. In this position, you will be responsible for managing relationships with consumer technology and device companies and establishing partnerships to source and recycle lithium-ion batteries. This role is vital to our overall mission and is a key driving force to meeting our company goals in accelerating the production of local, sustainable battery materials and ensuring that end-of-life batteries and materials are collected and processed safely. This position will include strategic account planning, account development, relationship management, and sales management across consumer technology partnerships. You will also serve as the commercial point person for Redwood’s Battery Bin program, a consumer-facing collection initiative that places battery drop-off bins at high-traffic community locations. You’ll work with business and technical teams across Redwood, collaborating to solve business problems with multiple stakeholders. The person who takes on this challenge, if successful, will be instrumental in paving the way for how this industry is shaped and the future of sourcing at Redwood.
Responsibilities will include:
- 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 customer expectations.