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Global Supply Manager - Raw Materials

Base Power · Austin, TX · On-site

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About Base Power

Base brings affordable, reliable energy and whole-home backup to homes across Texas — fixed low rates and battery backup that kicks in automatically. Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.

About the role

Base is looking for a Global Supply Manager to build and own our raw and bulk materials category from the ground up. You’ll start with adhesives, thermal interface materials (TIM), potting compounds, chemicals, and paint across our Base Core BOM, and expand into the raw materials that will underpin Base’s broader battery and structural materials strategy: lithium, carbon/graphite, anode and cathode materials, electrical steel, aluminum, cold-rolled steel, and copper.

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Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

Base is looking for a Global Supply Manager to build and own our raw and bulk materials category from the ground up. You’ll start with adhesives, thermal interface materials (TIM), potting compounds, chemicals, and paint across our Base Core BOM, and expand into the raw materials that will underpin Base’s broader battery and structural materials strategy: lithium, carbon/graphite, anode and cathode materials, electrical steel, aluminum, cold-rolled steel, and copper.

This is a build-from-scratch mandate, not a handoff. You’ll define how Base sources and manages raw materials before we’re locked into supplier relationships reactively, working closely with Base’s Metals and Cells category leads as raw materials strategy intersects both, and partnering with Manufacturing Engineering as Base’s sourcing needs...

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