Olefins Product Manager
Full Time Position Posting
Why CMS?
- Growth and opportunity
- Innovation and performance culture
- Positive impact on the world
- Ownership and access
The Position
Compact Membrane Systems (CMS) is on a mission to save the planet. We create technology to capture and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, avert global warming, and transform industry into a long-term sustainable enterprise. One membrane system at a time.
We are expanding our team with ambitious, driven, creative problem solvers and doers who are excited about tackling a challenge and delivering a new product to market.
We are looking for someone to take ownership of the OptipermTM Olefins product as it scales to commercial launch. The ideal candidate will have a high degree of ownership, creativity, bias for action, enthusiasm for tech innovations, comfort with ambiguity, quick to learn, technically strong, able to make data-driven decisions quickly, and excels at project management. Not afraid of challenges. Always buttoned up. Manages timeline and budget. Able to upwardly manage, collaborate, and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500 companies.
What you will be doing
- Create, own and drive commercialization strategy of the OptipermTMOlefins product. Plan and execute product launch.
- Use internal information and external insights to help shape the internal financial, commercial, technical and R&D work.
- Drive internal work required to deliver the OptipermTMOlefins
- Coordinate and determine product decisions.
- Effectively outreach to and communicate with customers, technology partners, suppliers, and other stakeholders in the space.
- Set the bar for quality and excellence in the product that CMS delivers to customers.
- Upward manage, collaborate, and coordinate across a start-up organization as well as with Fortune 500 companies.
- Mentor and develop colleagues, supporting CMS’ talent development mission.
- Work in a team environment which requires clear communication and listening skills.
- Self-management of daily, weekly, and more long-term tasks and goals.
Position Benefits
- Salary range is $150-170k annually based on experience and includes participation in the CMS Stock Option Plan
- Paid time off with up to 6 weeks of optional flex time
- Paid Holidays
- Flexible work schedule
- Remote Optional
- Comprehensive benefit offering that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, & 401k
Who we are at CMS
CMS is a high-growth, advanced materials company based in Wilmington, Delaware that offers its employees personal growth, autonomy, and the opportunity to work on award-winning disruptive technology that is bringing 21st century innovation to the industrial economy.
We are a small but mighty group of inquisitive self-starters who are passionate about learning and making a positive impact on our team-mates, colleagues, customers, and the world every day. Our individual missions and work are varied, our work culture is collaborative, and our organization is flat. You will become the CMS expert in your role.
What you bring to the table
- 5-8 years of practical workplace experience.
- Experience in scale-up and launch of industrial systems in a B2B environment.
- History of pioneering work and/or developing business for a new product in a start-up environment.
- Creative and self-motivated, comfortable with non-routine tasks and engineering changes, and working on multiple projects as a member of several teams.
- Ability to effectively communicate ideas to all members of the organization, at all levels and from different backgrounds and functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (membranes a bonus), Chemistry, Biochemistry, Mechanical Engineering, or Industrial Engineering. MBA a bonus.
