US Sales & Business Development Lead — Battery Intelligence

About the role

SimLionics is seeking a hands-on commercial leader to grow its US business, with a primary focus on BESS and data center battery infrastructure. This role combines sales execution, strategic partnerships, and market development, working directly with the founder and technical team to drive customer acquisition, commercial deployments, and long-term business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and execute the US sales strategy, prioritizing customer segments, target accounts, and routes to market
• Activate existing industry relationships and generate a qualified sales pipeline
• Map and engage decision-makers across engineering, operations, procurement, and executive leadership
• Own the full sales cycle, from initial outreach and discovery to proposals, commercial negotiations, and deal closure
• Identify customer battery challenges, purchasing processes, budgets, and deployment requirements
• Collaborate with the technical team to define pilot scope, measurable success criteria, and commercial deployment pathways
• Convert successful pilots into multi-year agreements and expand deployments across sites, fleets, and platforms
• Develop business cases around reliability, safety, usable capacity, battery life, maintenance costs, and warranty exposure
• Communicate SimLionics’ differentiation against existing BMS functions, OEM tools, and internal analytics
• Conduct technical discovery and involve battery specialists when deeper evaluation is required
• Establish OEM, integration, referral, and channel partnerships
• Represent SimLionics at industry events and customer meetings
• Share customer feedback with the technical team to inform product priorities and commercial packaging
• Maintain disciplined CRM records, pipeline forecasts, and account plans

Required Qualifications

• Proven success in technical B2B sales or business development within batteries, BESS, BMS, UPS, power infrastructure, or industrial software
• An active US industry network to support early customer introductions and commercial opportunities
• Demonstrated experience sourcing and closing deals, including complex sales involving multiple stakeholders
• Ability to translate technical capabilities into clear commercial business cases
• Familiarity with battery systems, degradation, warranties, and the role of BMS and cloud analytics
• Confidence engaging with technical teams and senior commercial decision-makers
• Ability to work independently in an early-stage company and build a repeatable sales process
• US-based and willing to travel for customer meetings and industry events
• US work authorization required (US citizen or Green Card holder; temporary work visas are not accepted)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling software licenses or subscriptions
• Experience converting pilots into scaled deployments
• Experience building OEM partnerships
• Experience selling into data center critical power infrastructure

What We Offer

• Commission-led compensation tied to collected revenue from contracts secured
• Equity opportunities linked to commercial milestones
• Flexible engagement, starting on a fractional or full-time basis
• Opportunity to grow into US sales leadership as revenue develops
• Opportunity to build SimLionics’ US presence across BESS and data center battery infrastructure