Expansion Manager

Role: Senior Manager Expansion

Department: Operations Location: Bengaluru, India     Experience: 8-12 Years

Your Team:

You’ll be working with the Network Operations Team.

Our philosophy:

Break. Believe. Build. 

Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule.

Believe in the team, the process, and through failures.

Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify.

Own it like you mean it.

What you’ll do:

Role Overview

Own the end-to-end expansion and optimization of the E-Pump network, ensuring the right locations are developed at the right cost, speed, and quality. The role will work closely with Business, Operations, Real Estate, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to drive network growth and asset optimization.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Network Expansion

• Partner with the Business team to identify demand, network gaps, and expansion requirements.
• Own the expansion pipeline and roadmap aligned with the overall hub and network strategy.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop new E-Pump locations.

End-to-End Project Ownership

• Own the complete expansion lifecycle from demand identification → site identification → feasibility → approvals → development → commissioning → E-Pump opening.
• Drive projects to meet agreed timelines, quality standards, and launch targets.
• Identify and resolve execution bottlenecks proactively.

Cost & Commercial Management

• Own the overall cost of expansion and ensure delivery within approved budgets.
• Drive cost optimization across real estate, infrastructure, civil, electrical, and other site-development activities.
• Establish cost benchmarks and track project-level spends and deviations.

Network & Asset Optimization

• Lead relocations, consolidations, and site changes based on the hub and network strategy.
• Manage the real-estate lifecycle for new and existing E-Pumps.
• Drive effective utilization, refurbishment, replacement, and redeployment of assets.

Stakeholder & Governance Management

• Work closely with Business, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and other teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Manage landlords, contractors, consultants, and other external partners.
• Maintain centralized tracking of expansion pipeline, costs, timelines, risks, and launches.

Key Success Metrics

• E-Pumps launched vs. plan
• Time-to-launch
• Expansion cost per E-Pump
• Budget adherence & cost savings
• Site pipeline and conversion
• On-time project completion
• Asset utilization and productivity
• Successful relocations/consolidations

Ideal Candidate

• 8–12 years of experience in network expansion, real estate, infrastructure, retail expansion, EV charging, logistics, or similar asset-heavy businesses.
• Strong track record of managing multi-location, end-to-end expansion projects.
• Strong commercial, project management, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly execution-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with significant ownership.

About Us:

Exponent is building the energy stack powering commercial EVs in India. Our proprietary battery and charging technology enables safe, reliable 15-minute rapid charging while delivering a 3,000-cycle battery life warranty using standard lithium-ion cells. Today, our platform powers high-utilisation commercial vehicles - from three-wheelers to intercity buses, making electric mobility rapid, more reliable and more affordable than petroleum.

Founded by Arun Vinayak (Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer, Ather Energy), Exponent is a 250+ member team of passionate builders solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in energy.

If solving hard engineering problems across mechanics, thermal systems, power electronics, manufacturing, and the charging network, while staying obsessed with customer experience excites you, we'd love to build with you.