Director Product

You’ll perform the following tasks:

• Create and lead the product development team responsible for product definitions, customer requirements and testing protocols
• Oversee experiments to improve the product design, analyze the data of the results and validate performance.
• Interface the engineering and operational functions to ensure successful industrialization of Sonder’s products.
• Support customer acquisition workstreams and the company’s overall product and industrialization strategy.

Requirements

• Battery Experience: Extensive hands-on experience with cell development, scale-up, and manufacturing process optimization from lab to gigafactory scale.
• End-to-End Process & Equipment Development: Proven ability to set manufacturing specifications, lead slurry and electrode development, implement pilot-to-production transitions, and procure and commission pilot-scale battery manufacturing equipment.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Strategic Execution: Experience leading critical projects across engineering functions to resolve manufacturing issues and meet aggressive quality and automation goals in high-paced environments.
• Experience Innovation & Intellectual Property Development experience in demonstrating an ability to lead R&D initiatives from ideation to IP commercialization and technical implementation.
• A technical BSc/MSc degree Chemical/Bio Engineering