Chief Commercial Officer

About the role:

Noon Energy, a leader in advanced Long Duration Energy Storage solutions, is a Series A startup looking for a Chief Commercial Officer, reporting directly to the CEO. This person will be responsible for establishing and leading the execution of Noon’s commercial strategy to support its rapid growth. This role will require a deep level of understanding of existing energy storage technologies such that you will be able to explain in depth the financial and product benefits and advantages of deploying this technology compared to competitive solutions. You will be responsible for Noon's commercialization strategy and business model refinement along with proactively originating new business, managing Noon's sales pipeline, and delivering great service to our customers.

What You’ll Do:

Core responsibilities:

Commercialization strategy: Lead commercialization strategy, collaborating with the product team. Develop innovative business models to help determine economics and future profitability.

Partnerships: Explore various partnership structures across end-user and manufacturing for the diverse applications of the company’s technology. Negotiate and execute project deployment, partnership, and potentially licensing agreements. Work with the R&D, Finance & Product teams to determine the feasibility and timeline to deliver potential projects/partnerships.

Business development: Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers and influencers within target client organizations to achieve business objectives. Understand their needs, challenges, and objectives to effectively position our energy storage solutions. Leverage existing contacts within the renewables and stationary energy storage space to identify future prospects.

Sales and Marketing: Develop and manage the sales and marketing teams and partners, setting performance targets and providing guidance. Develop and execute marketing and branding strategies to enhance the company's visibility and reputation in the industry.

Represent Noon with customer executives in private and on stages at conferences worldwide. Deliver compelling presentations to showcase the features, functionality, and ROI of Noon’s energy storage solutions. 

Secondary responsibilities:

Market intelligence: Work with the product team to shape go-to-market plans & own commercial operating strategies to execute. Stay informed about industry trends, competitive landscapes, and regulatory developments related to energy storage and renewable energy. Use market insights to refine commercial strategies and identify new business opportunities.

Government and external affairs:  Build and maintain strong relationships with key policy decision-makers. Provide strategy on long duration storage market design and regulatory issues, monitor key developments in these areas, and provide recommendations.

Corporate and project finance: Support efforts to expand knowledge of and interaction with lenders and financial institutions investing in stationary storage projects, including raising equity, debt, tax equity, and structured products. Future capital raising will likely extend to government, strategic, and catalytic capital sources.

What You’ll Bring:

• Technology and industrial sector experiences with technical, deeply integrated products in the renewable energy sector (e.g., energy storage systems, hydrogen production, fuel cells).
• Deep understanding of stationary storage, current macro and microeconomic trends, industry trends and potential new business opportunities.
• Deep understanding of energy storage technologies and their applications in utilities, commercial and industrial, community solar, microgrid, data centers, and remote community settings.
• Prior commercial leadership experience in enterprise sales with complex technology products.
• Prior commercial leadership experience in rapidly growing start-up environments.
• Strong analytical/financial knowledge for modeling storage revenues.
• Strong understanding of financial analysis, investment principles, and experience with tax equity and debt financing is preferred.
• Bachelor degree required; technical degree recommended; advanced degree preferred.

Location

This role requires 4-5 days per week on-site presence at our office in Mountain View, CA.

Compensation & Benefits

Total compensation: $200,000 - $280,000
Performance-based bonuses
Equity options
Comprehensive benefits package

Noon Energy is committed to equitable compensation and a comprehensive benefits package to cover the short and long term needs of our team. We offer a full range of benefits including health and wellness benefits with medical, vision, dental and disability coverage, covering 90% of premiums for employees and 70% for dependents. We also offer financial security benefits including tax advantaged accounts with matching, including 401k, FSA and dependent care. We also offer time off benefits including PTO and a generous parental leave plan that is available to every employee regardless of gender identity or expression. These benefits are in addition to others, like paid team lunch. Noon offers a benefits package aligned with our company culture and values in addition to a full compensation package with competitive salaries and a company equity incentive plan. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Noon Energy, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

About Us

Noon Energy’s vision is a fully-renewable future with energy storage inspired by nature. We’re on a mission to allow the world to run on renewables with low-cost compact long-duration energy storage. Our compact stationary battery uses the same chemistry that plants use in photosynthesis, eliminating the need for mining precious metals for energy storage. Noon Energy batteries deliver 200+ hours of storage capacity, enabling 5-6 ¢/kWh on-demand renewable electricity when paired with wind and solar. The Noon Energy technology is robust, safe, and the core electrochemical component of the technology is currently operating on Mars. Initially, we are developing products for the $1T stationary energy storage market with future applications in long-haul shipping and trucking.

“Our battery stores energy by splitting CO2, similar to how nature stores energy by photosynthesis. Storage in air-abundant molecules, rather than rare metals, is key to our fundamental advantages in cost, sustainability, and energy density.” - Chris Graves, CEO. 

We are building a company rooted in our desire for everyone to have access to abundant low-cost energy. Our core values are woven into everything we do, from what we ask in interviews, how we run our meetings, and how we make the highest-level company decisions. We believe that alignment with our core ideology is essential for building a lasting company with massive positive impact on the world.

Application Process

Interested candidates should apply at https://www.noon.energy/careers or via LinkedIn.com. The hiring process will include an application review, vision and values screening call, skills and expertise interview, technical interview, on-site interview, benefits review, and offer negotiation. Reference checks will be conducted before finalizing the offer.