Senior Deployment Strategist - Heavy Industries

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Roster: 5 Days on / 2 days off 

Role overview

We’re looking for commercially astute and technically fluent Senior Deployment Strategist. You’ll be the bridge between battery insight and business impact, responsible for ensuring customers achieve rapid time-to-value and long-term success with our battery intelligence products, driving real value into their business, and championing the customer within Elysia.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we deliver our products, onboard, support, and grow our enterprise customers.

You will support technical discovery, scoping, and sales calls, and own the post-sales journey (end to end), from technical deployment to strategic adoption and long-term value realization, acting as the trusted advisor to our customers.

Working closely with some of the most innovative names in energy and mobility, you will help them unlock the full potential of their batteries, presenting, consulting, advising and driving value for senior stakeholders in our customers’ business.

Key Responsibilities

•    Develop trusted relationships with key stakeholders across deployment, onboarding, adoption, expansion, and renewal, acting as a trusted advisor to clients, offering insights, best practices, and thought leadership to drive value and foster long-term partnerships.
•    Be the first point of contact and trusted advisor for your customers, acting as an extension of their internal teams to drive their business success using Elysia’s products.
•    Lead complex, multi-phase deployments, partnering with Application Engineering and Product Teams to meet technical and operational requirements, ensuring success criteria are well defined and achieved.
•    Work as a partner to your lead application engineer and sales counterparts, taking responsibility for the product implementation, including all scoping and timing plans, presenting the realised value back to the customer, aligned to their needs. 
•    Develop and own accountability for tailored plans for enterprise customers with defined milestones, KPIs, and value objectives.
•    Drive deep engagement and product adoption, delivering proactive training, reporting, and success reviews to align customer outcomes with product capabilities, demonstrating value and ROI.
•    Influence product strategy by representing the voice of the customer in roadmap conversations with Product and Engineering, informing product-market fit and roadmap priorities.
•    Define and optimise success frameworks, processes, playbooks, and metrics that support scalable, high-impact engagement across a growing portfolio. Support early-stage accounts with direct, high-touch engagement while building for repeatability at scale.
•    Identify and win new business opportunities within existing accounts and collaborate with internal teams to develop tailored solutions that address client requirements. Understand client needs, objectives, and challenges to effectively position our software solutions and services.

Qualifications and Experience

About You
You are a leader, both technically and commercially aware, fluent in the language of engineering and business logic.

You think in terms of customer impact, outcomes and value. You thrive in ambiguity, operate with autonomy, and are excited to build what doesn’t yet exist.

You want to help shape the future of battery intelligence and be part of a team that’s building frontier models to help the global automotive industry produce the safest, most advanced and sustainable electric vehicles on the planet. If the above is true, then Elysia is the place for you.

Key Qualifications & Experience:
•    5+ years' experience in consultancy, technical account management, customer facing engineering, solution deployment in a B2B software or energy/industrial technology environment.
•    Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, science, or a related technical field.
•    Delivery of complex hardware or software into safety-critical heavy-industry environments.
•    Strong understanding of battery technology, performance, software or data analytics, ideally in the field of automotive, energy or heavy industry applications. 
•    Exceptional communication and presentation skills; capable of interfacing with both technical and executive stakeholders, with the ability to influence at all levels - from engineers to C-suite.
•    Experience with tools like CRM (Salesforce), project management software (Asana, Jira).
•    Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complexity, ambiguity and large-scale challenges into clear, implementable solutions.
•    You have a bias to action, focussed on outcomes, getting your hands dirty to drive results. 
•    Highly organized, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects and customer relationships simultaneously.
•    Willingness to travel globally as required to meet with clients. Purpose-driven, proactive, and keen to make a positive global impact through the products we develop and deliver to customers. Self-starter, with ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and know how to scale what works.
•    Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Sales to deliver customer value and improve product fit.

About Us

At Elysia, we are at the forefront of revolutionizing the life, safety, and performance of battery systems, across markets and industries. As a pioneering technology company, we specialize in the development of cutting-edge software solutions that supports, optimises and de-risks the deployment of batteries, from cradle to grave, starting with design and manufacture, through to first-life monitoring and the transition to second-life or recycling.

Our team of brilliant minds and passionate experts are dedicated to pushing the boundaries in software-derived performance, both within embedded BMS and cloud-based domains. We believe in the combination of expertise in electrochemistry, battery systems and data science to build products that empower our customers to unlock the full potential of their battery assets.

Elysia is wholly owned business of Fortescue, a top 10 ASX listed company. Fortescue is a world leading mining and energy company, who has committed to reach net zero by 2030.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.