About the Role
We're looking for a Business Operations Associate, Energy Storage to support the commercial growth of our utility-scale battery energy storage business. You'll be the operational backbone of our sales organization, driving data-informed decision-making, optimizing our sales processes, and enabling cross-functional collaboration to accelerate our market penetration.
Responsibilities
- Own and optimize our CRM (Hubspot) to ensure data quality, pipeline visibility, and actionable insights for leadership.
- Develop sales analytics and reporting frameworks to track KPIs, forecast performance, and identify growth opportunities.
- Support market prioritization and segmentation analysis to guide go-to-market strategy and resource allocation.
- Collaborate with Finance and Commercial teams on pricing strategy, competitive analysis, and deal economics.
- Lead cross-functional project initiatives across Engineering, Commercial, Legal, and Operations to ensure seamless execution of customer engagements.
- Support project management of energy storage project development from contract execution through commissioning, coordinating across internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Streamline sales operations processes, including proposal workflows, contract templates, and sales enablement materials.
- Conduct market research and competitive intelligence to inform product positioning and commercial strategy.
- Build financial models to evaluate project economics, incentive eligibility, and commercial terms.
- Support RFP response coordination, ensuring timely and high-quality submissions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, finance, economics, or related field.
- 1-5 years of experience in consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, FP&A, or operations roles, ideally with exposure to energy, infrastructure, or technology sectors.
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel financial modeling and data analysis.
- Experience with CRM platforms or willingness to become a power user quickly.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams and drive cross-functional projects to completion.
- Interest in or experience with project managing the development of energy storage or renewable energy projects is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex data into clear insights for stakeholders.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven mindset.
- Scrappy, hands-on self-starter who is comfortable rolling up sleeves and tackling whatever needs to get done—no task is too small or beneath you.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and building systems from scratch in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Experience in energy storage, renewables, or cleantech is a plus but not required.
- A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!
Skills
- Hubspot CRM
- Sales analytics
- Reporting frameworks
- KPI tracking
- Forecasting
- Market prioritization
- Market segmentation
- Go-to-market strategy
- Resource allocation
- Pricing strategy
- Competitive analysis
- Deal economics
- Cross-functional project management
- Project management
- Sales operations process optimization
- Proposal workflows
- Contract templates
- Sales enablement
- Market research
- Competitive intelligence
- Product positioning
- Commercial strategy
- Financial modeling
- Project economics evaluation
- Incentive eligibility analysis
- Commercial terms evaluation
- RFP response coordination
- Excel financial modeling
- Data analysis
- CRM platforms
- Communication skills
- Data translation
- Organization
- Detail-orientation
- Process-driven mindset
Location
- California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, finance, economics, or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $87,500—$117,500 USD
About the Company
- 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.
