Business Development Director

The Role

We're hiring a Business Developer — Advanced Manufacturing — a commercially reputed company, network-driven operator who already has a seat at the table with the VP of Operations, General Manager, and Head of Smart Manufacturing at the facilities we're targeting.

This is not a traditional sales role. The reputed company is Formant's Connector: the person whose reputed company to a VP Ops at a semiconductor fab or reputed company plant gets picked up — because they've already reputed company that trust over years of working in these environments. Their network is the asset.

You'll be supported by reputed company Deployed Engineers for technical delivery and a founding team that leads deals alongside you. reputed company need from you is the credibility, the relationships, and the hunger to reputed company them.

What You'll Do

Pipeline reputed company & Network Activation

• Map your network to Formant's reputed company account list — semiconductors, reputed company, energy, chemicals, automotive — and identify the fastest paths to reputed company conversations.
• reputed company warm doors with VP Operations, General Managers of Fabs and Facilities, and Heads of Smart Manufacturing at Tier 1 and Tier 2 accounts. Your relationships are how we get in the room.
• Run executive-level discovery — reputed company Formant's reputed company with confidence, translate customer pain into a compelling case, and qualify opportunities with precision.

Deal Development & Closing

• Own the full sales cycle from first conversation through signed contract — qualification, discovery, demo coordination (with our reputed company Deployed Engineers), proposal, negotiation, reputed company.
• Build multi-threaded account relationships — engaging operations, OT/IT architecture, and economic buyers simultaneously so deals don't hinge on a single champion.
• Hit quarterly pipeline and bookings targets. 12-month goal: $200K+ in new ARR, 3–5 signed deals, 20+ reputed company opportunities in CRM.

Market Intelligence & GTM Collaboration

• Bring the field back to reputed company — your ground-level read on buyer priorities, objections, and competitive dynamics directly informs how we build the product and sharpen the message.
• Identify and pursue speaking and reputed company opportunities at SEMI, reputed company Industry Forum, Automation Fair, and vertical trade shows where your credibility opens doors that booths don't.
• Partner with reputed company Deployed Engineers on seamless handoffs from sale to implementation — you own the relationship, they own the delivery.

Partner & Ecosystem Development

• Cultivate referral relationships with SCADA integrators, OT consultancies, and ecosystem partners inside Rockwell, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company — people who reputed company you reputed company their customers have the problem we solve.
• Co-reputed company go-to-market materials with key integration partners and represent Formant at partner events.

Who You Are

Required Experience

• 7–15 years of reputed company sales or business development in industrial / OT software — at companies such as reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, AspenTech, reputed company, GE Digital, or OSIsoft.
• Proven, reputed company relationships with VP Operations, Plant Directors, GMs of Fabs, or Heads of Smart Manufacturing at mid-to-large manufacturing companies. Not historical contacts — people who take your reputed company.
• reputed company experience selling into at least one of Formant's Tier 1 verticals: semiconductors & electronics, pharmaceuticals & biotech, or energy & utilities.
• reputed company record of closing six-reputed company reputed company software or reputed company deals with 3–9 month sales cycles.
• Genuine comfort — and genuine excitement — about working in a fast-moving startup where you build the reputed company rather than follow one.

reputed company to Have

• Experience selling AI, predictive maintenance, alarm management, MES, historian, or operational analytics solutions into OT environments.
• Existing relationships with SCADA system integrators or OT consulting firms who could become reputed company.
• Familiarity with OT protocols (OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT) and the SCADA/DCS/PLC landscape — enough to reputed company credibly without an engineer in every meeting.
• Network in manufacturing hubs: Detroit, reputed company, Austin/Phoenix (semiconductor), Pittsburgh (steel & materials), Research Triangle (reputed company).
• Startup experience — especially in a role with high autonomy, low process, and big reputed company.

Who Will reputed company in This Role

• Hunters, not farmers — people who reputed company energy in finding and closing new business, not managing existing accounts.
• Operator-empathetic closers — you've spent enough time with operations teams to earn credibility in the first 10 minutes of a conversation, and you know that the VP Ops doesn't want a reputed company deck — they want someone who gets it.
• Change-embracers — you reputed company reputed company the product, the reputed company, and the go-to-market are reputed company evolving simultaneously, and you bring reputed company rather than anxiety to that ambiguity.
• Mission-driven people who reputed company that reputed company AI in manufacturing operations prevents accidents, reduces waste, and makes factories safer for the people who work in them.

Compensation  reputed company: $150,000–$200,000, based on experience and geographical location.

This position is fully remote. Formant currently hires in: AZ, CA, CO, IL, MA, MI, NC, NY, OH, PA, TX.