Quick overview
Job description
Key Responsibility Areas
- Draft, negotiate, and execute significant technical subcontracts for custom-built fusion components (e.g., cryogenic systems, vacuum vessels).
- Manage supplier performance against complex statements of work, tracking milestone completions, cost, and technical quality.
- Formulate negotiation strategies including intellectual property terms that protect Thea Energy’s core technology, confidentiality obligations, liability, risk distribution, and long-term pricing.
- Partner with leadership, finance and legal team to ensure all vendor agreements and terms and conditions manage financial, operational and legal risk appropriately.
- Bridge engineering needs with business agreements, translating technical requirements and program milestones into contractual agreements, including statements of work, acceptance criteria, and payment schedules.
- Source and evaluate vendor capabilities globally to build an active pipeline of advanced manufacturing partners.
- Own non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements supporting supplier and partner engagement.
Ideal Experience & Skillsets
- 6+ years of experience managing subcontracts, complex supplier agreements, or commercial procurement contracts.
- Background in hard-tech, aerospace, defense, or heavy industrial energy projects.
- Deep knowledge of contract law concepts, including warranties, intellectual property protections, termination, and liability limitations.
- Strong attention to detail in contract drafting and document control, including the ability to track and explain changes through a negotiation process.
- Negotiation and relationship skills, with a track record of handling high-stakes business agreements.
- Cross-functional leadership ability to coordinate inputs from engineering, finance, and legal teams seamlessly.
Company Benefits
- Salary Range $115,000- $140,000
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
- 20 days PTO
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