Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy. The Manager, Commercial Program Management supports the execution of strategic commercial and partnership initiatives, collaborating closely with various teams to drive business-critical partnerships and ensure alignment across functions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end commercial program execution lifecycle for assigned initiatives, including supporting commercial leadership in defining objectives, establishing timelines, allocating resources, and establishing program management frameworks
- Clearly understand assigned programs’ objectives, commitments and timelines and facilitate the company’s management and timely completion of milestones
- Collaborate with leadership to set priorities, monitor key performance indicators, and prepare regular reports on initiative status and impact
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks, and appropriately escalating to leadership as needed, to ensure commercial program success
- Foster effective communication and alignment across internal teams and external stakeholders
- Coordinate cross-functional meetings and deliver clear, actionable program updates to leadership and executives
- Anticipate and resolve conflicts or barriers to program success through timely issue escalation and resolution
- Lead the proposal development process from opportunity identification through submission, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop compelling, data-driven proposals that strengthen Kairos Power’s market position
- Support the creation, implementation, and optimization of partnership programs aligned with Kairos Power’s business goals and mission
- Maintain and strengthen relationships with customers and partners through data-driven insights and proactive engagement
- Evaluate customer and partner feedback to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for improvement
- Partner with Commercial and Strategy teams to ensure initiatives are structured effectively to achieve intended outcomes
- Provide input on strategic planning and prioritization to align initiatives with organizational goals
- Partner with internal stakeholders to enhance CRM functionality, ensuring data quality, user adoption, and system effectiveness
- Develop and implement CRM-related processes to support customer engagement, business development, and partnership management
- Perform other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering related field of study
- 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, customer/partner management or a related field
- Demonstrated success in building strong cross-functional relationships and influencing outcomes through collaboration and effective communication
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a knack for creative solutions
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks effectively and prioritize workload
- Strong candidates will have experience in (i) partner/customer management/success roles; (ii) roles managing initiatives/collaborations, which impact technology development/supply chain/cost
- Attentive to detail with a demonstrated commitment to delivering high quality work products
- Versatility, flexibility, and willingness to adapt job responsibilities as required to meet the demands and opportunities of a rapidly growing company
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team members
- Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
- Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges, and issues
- Strong business acumen and the demonstrated ability to manage work based on company and partnership business priorities
- Ability to interpret commercial contracts and agreements to extract commercial milestones, requirements and timelines
- Master's in Business related field of study
- Experience in the energy sector
- Relevant experience from directly within the nuclear energy industry
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
Company Overview
Kairos Power is an ancient Greek word that relates the importance of timeliness and a call to action. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Alameda, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://kairospower.com/.