Mainspring Energy

Data Center Business Development Director

LocationMenlo Park, CA
Job Typefull_time
Salary$190,000-$225,000

About This Job


Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:


Pragmatic Optimism.

Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.


Excellence without Ego.

We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.


Proactive Collaboration.

The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.


More information can be found at

www.mainspringenergy.com


Job Overview

A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of its team to develop and execute on key growth strategies required to substantially grow sales as data center load growth drives the future economy. This includes developing the required strategies and executing high total-contract-value transactions with strategic partners and customers in the data center market. Mainspring seeks Business Development Director to develop and execute these critical customer and partnership opportunities, and bring Mainspring’s unique capabilities in emissions performance, scalability, and fuel flexibility to unlock more compute capacity.

You will be responsible for supporting all aspects of strategy and execution for the data center market. Success in this role requires a high level of competency in the data center space and what drives the developers/owners in the way of design and siting, as well as technical needs for energy and resiliency, to win business in this dynamic market.


Responsibilities

Leverage the proper cross functional teams and perform the necessary research and analysis required to develop engagement strategies and business plans around growth customers and partners in the data center market

Execute these strategies by:
Networking with and engaging the applicable personnel
Qualifying opportunities
Articulating and quantifying the value of the Mainspring product
Fostering and cultivating strong relationships through the full deal cyclecollaboration, term sheet, contract negotiations, and close
Employ lessons learned from research, strategy development, and partner engagement to enhance Mainspring product lines by collaborating with the product and engineering teams


Qualifications

At least 15 years of experience supporting and transacting innovative technical/energy/resilience deals in the data center space
Comprehensive understanding of the data center space. Preference for candidates who possess an understanding of incentives and macroeconomic forces driving resilience and topology decisions at customer-owned data centers
Experience: Bachelor’s degree required (engineering strongly preferred); advanced degrees preferred (e.g., Masters, MBA, PhD, JD, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to develop and execute on strategy by winning customer trust across all stakeholders (procurement, engineering, operations, energy, sustainability), fostering strong relationships and negotiating complex deals to close
Firm command of project finance concepts (IRR, NPV, pre-tax vs. after-tax, etc.)
Driven to understand customer/partner underlying business drivers and capable of translating the same into strategy that informs execution


Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.



This position is  remote

. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.

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