Overview

Lightship is the first American all-electric recreational vehicle manufacturer currently developing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer for the electric age. As the macro transition to an all-electric transportation ecosystem accelerates, Lightship is bringing the increased convenience and superior performance that electrification offers to a pastime enjoyed by over 11 million American families.

Honoring Diverse Perspectives

Lightship is committed to hiring and developing top talent from diverse backgrounds. We believe representing and supporting diverse groups is key to the success of our team members, customers, shareholders and the achievement of our mission and vision. We operate in a collaborative environment with a flat organizational structure and expect a high degree of integrity, autonomy and creativity from all members of the team.

About the Role

Lightship is looking for a well-rounded business operations manager to be a strategic partner to the business and help build the foundation for sustainable long term growth at Lightship. The ideal candidate will be a strategic partner to the business with a strong analytical skill set, organized approach and scrappy mindset. We’re a small, low-ego team looking for a highly effective collaborator equally capable of guiding long term business strategy and pitching in to get a very tactical operational task across the finish line.

Responsibilities
- Provide business support in the product development process: own product pricing and packaging/customer configurability; manage the Lightship bill of materials; provide direction on product decisions based on tradeoffs between design, manufacturing feasibility and cost
- Collaborate with internal leaders to provide strategic direction on our go to market plan
- Support the Lightship manufacturing team to determine strategy for the production of vehicles at each stage of our development and production launch and help to evaluate tradeoffs between in-house developed vs. procured components
- Provide commercial, negotiation and business management support with key strategic suppliers and product development partners
- Organize and support fundraising efforts (primarily venture and growth equity)
- Support board of director meetings and ongoing investor relations initiatives
- Provide exceptional business and analytical support to internal stakeholders to ensure sound decision making on the way to a high-impact, high-growth and highly profitable company

Prior Experience & Professional Qualities
- 4+ years in a business operations, strategy, finance or other business function in a related industry (automotive, climate tech, space launch, consumer hardware) or in management consulting/investment banking
- Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders throughout a business and influencing strategic decision making in domains you are not an expert in
- Experience providing analytical or operational support at a company focused on hardware or complex manufacturing preferred
- Proficiency with basic business tools like Powerpoint and Microsoft Excel
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to act with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating effectively with a team
- Proactive, comfortable with ambiguity and juggling multiple projects

Employee Benefits

Lightship offers all of its employees and their dependents full benefits including health, dental and vision insurance and covers 100% of the insurance premium. We are on a mission to create a more healthful all-electric experience for a pastime that millions of families enjoy and believe strongly that our team should not have to worry about quality healthcare for themselves or their loved ones along the way.