GM, Palmetto Accelerator
Palmetto Clean TechCharlotte, North Carolina
Full Time
Posted December 22, 2025
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Job Description
The General Manager, Palmetto Accelerator, leads strategic investments in new growth areas, oversees pilot programs, evaluates market opportunities, and manages cross-functional teams to drive long-term organizational growth and innovation in the clean energy sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic investment in new growth areas and oversee their development towards profitability or deprioritization.
- Source, evaluate, and test high-potential concepts through investment mechanisms and pilot programs.
- Perform cost-benefit analyses to assess capital allocation and potential returns on investment.
- Develop and monitor metrics frameworks to evaluate product-market fit and pilot success.
- Manage the end-to-end investment budget, adjusting priorities based on performance metrics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to structure, launch, and adapt pilot programs based on early results.
- Identify and manage strategic partnerships from initiation to implementation.
- Contribute to long-term strategic planning, balancing short-term wins with future growth opportunities.
- Lead multiple teams working on different strategies, ensuring alignment with company goals.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders through concise reports and presentations.
Requirements
- Proven ability to analyze complex data, set KPIs, and structure the testing needed to evaluate investment areas and pilot programs.
- Strong cross-functional collaborator, able to build trust, alignment, and support from cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communicator able to convey a vision and progress to that vision to both internal vs. external audiences, and senior leaders vs. company-wide.
- Must have a phenomenal understanding of capital allocation.
- Self-starter and structured thinker experienced at breaking down complex challenges and opportunities with clear frameworks and processes.
- Highly adaptable to changing situations and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Experience owning both strategic direction and operational execution in either GM, Product, or GTM positions for at least 12 years.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a zero-to-one mentality.
- Experience working in early-stage startups or on emerging products within later-stage companies, working with limited resources, team, capital, time, aggressive goals, and compounded urgency.
- Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
Benefits & Perks
Unlimited PTO
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid parental leave
Retirement plans
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