Job Summary Cutting edge clean technology company is seeking an India Program Manager to head up the company’s sales, marketing, and commercial research operations in India for the revolutionary HomeStove™ - the world’s first self-powered, ultra-clean, and highly efficient biomass cookstove.

About BioLite BioLite is a dynamic, rapidly growing, and profitable social enterprise that develops, manufactures, and markets consumer energy products for off-grid communities around the world. Our business serves two distinct markets: 1) developing world families living in energy poverty, and 2) outdoor enthusiasts seeking fuel-independent cooking and off-grid power. We address these markets simultaneously through parallel innovation: by incubating core technologies that can serve users in both markets, we are able to invest near-term revenue to solve long-term, high-impact problems. Over the last four years, our team has quadrupled, and sales have doubled each year. Dedicated to constant innovation, we have launched 6 products, with further launches scheduled every year. TITLE: India Program Manager LOCATION: Odisha or Assam, India HOURS: Full-time REPORTS TO: Director of Sales and Operations, Emerging Markets START DATE: Immediately

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Navigator: As India Program Manager, you will serve as BioLite's eyes and ears on the ground, reporting regularly to senior management and our product design teams in Brooklyn. Your daily insight and experience will help chart the course for our pilot program in India, and you will play an integral role in laying the foundation for achieving scale for the HomeStove. Manager: Working directly with BioLite’s distribution partners you will manage the overall business strategy to sustainably grow sales of the BioLite HomeStove and other energy products. You will strategize, plan, and drive commercial and research projects to meet project milestones and timelines, as well as lead and motivate a team of dedicated sales agents and other staff on best practices on marketing, sales, product service and maintenance. Ambassador: As the in-country representative for BioLite, you will represent us at every level of the business – working with diverse partners ranging from our customers in the field to private-sector partners, NGOs, government, and research entities. Designer: Working for a company focused on continual design improvement, you will be expected to gather and test product feedback for the BioLite engineers and design team to help inform product development. You will also play a direct role working with

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our graphic designers to create and/or guide the development of the program’s visual collateral (presentations, marketing, training, sales, & service material) (Novice) Engineer: BioLite is a company that prides itself on getting its hands dirty! You’ll need to rise to the challenge of fully understanding (and explaining) the technologies behind our products, including (but not limited to) materials and manufacturing process, concepts of basic combustion & thermodynamics, digital electronics, and simple circuitry. Researcher: Procure data and analyze a wide variety of subjects, such as market research and government policies.

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Bachelor’s degree; Preferably a Master’s in Business, Public Policy, Engineering or related field Relevant field experience; 2+ years of experience working in bottom of the pyramid (BoP) markets in rural & peri-urban areas Project management and sales; experience meeting timelines, budgets, and successfully managing large teams Leadership experience; proven ability to motivate and inspire Team player and self-starter; ability to work collaboratively, but also self-managing and work well independently Flexibility; able to transition from a variety of roles - seamlessly transitioning from a remote village to negotiating shipping logistics, to delivering a presentation at a business conference Strong analytical and communication skills; experience to effectively synthesize data and prepare clear, compelling and high-quality reports and presentations via Excel, PowerPoint, Word and other analytical and visual communication tools (and corresponding Google equivalents: Sheets, Slides, and Docs) Strong work ethic, with a willingness to work a nontraditional work schedule Balance; combining patience, empathy, and honesty with the assertiveness, clout and drive to see any job through to the end Familiarity living and working in remote areas of India for significant periods of time, balanced with the opportunity for significant regional travel as BioLite scales operations in 2015

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India (strongly preferred at least traveled to, if not lived/worked in India) Supply chain and logistics experience, preferably in an emerging market context Experience in the renewable energy sector Experience with start-ups Raising capital, including the procurement of grant funding Basic engineering skills and hands-on shop experience, specifically with metal fabrication, digital electronics and circuitry

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Hindi and other Indian languages Accounting and finance Sales and account management

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Photography and videography

BioLite’s Technologies and Markets Developing World: Half the planet still cooks on indoor open wood fires and the toxic smoke they emit kills nearly 4 million people every year, twice as many as malaria. BioLite has developed an advanced, affordable, clean- burning stove that combines unprecedented emissions reductions with economically valuable electricity generation. The HomeStove is capable of reducing indoor smoke by more than 90% while cutting fuel use in half. By providing our largely off-grid customers with the ability to charge cell phones and LED lights, our stoves create economic incentive for purchase and continued use, ensuring sustainable delivery of our health and environmental benefits. Funded by the company’s profits and the generous support of USAID, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and the National Institutes of Health, BioLite is currently conducting large-scale HomeStove pilot programs in India, Uganda, and Ghana. With your help, we will be scaling the product commercially in 2016.

Outdoor and Emergency: BioLite has quickly emerged as a leading innovator in the personal energy space. Whether camping in the backcountry or toughing it out during a power outage in the backyard, our core technologies allow people cook meals, boil water, and charge their electronic devices using nothing but sticks and twigs collected around them. Our current product portfolio offers people a green alternative to petroleum cooking, combining the speed and reliability of an advanced stove with the appeal of a traditional campfire all with the added benefit of on-demand electricity, keeping users connected when it matters most. Our product roadmap has exciting new innovations which will continue our expansion in the Outdoor and Emergency markets, allowing people to create, store and share energy in any situation they find themselves. Our products are now in over 70 countries worldwide and are found in all major outdoor retailers, including REI, EMS, and Bass Pro Shops.

To Apply Please submit your resume, cover letter, and a professional writing sample to [email protected] and include “India Program Manager” in the subject line. *Deadline Extended* Please submit your application no later than close of business on February 20th, 2015.