Quality Director

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Vision:
• Define the BESS Business Unit quality strategy in alignment with company-wide objectives, customer requirements, and regulatory landscape; translate it into a multi-year quality roadmap with clear milestones and KPIs.
• Position the Quality function as a strategic enabler of business growth - not a bottleneck - by aligning quality investments with product launches, customer expectations, and market entry priorities.
• Establish and own the BESS quality vision: 'quality is built in, not inspected in,' with measurable cultural and operational targets.
• Represent the Quality function at the executive leadership level, ensuring quality considerations are embedded in strategic decisions on product, customers, suppliers, and partnerships.
• Quality Culture & Organizational Leadership:
• Build a quality culture across every level of the organization, embedding shared ownership of quality outcomes from frontline operators through engineering teams to leadership.
• Develop and execute change management programs that shift the organization from a 'compliance' mindset to a 'care and ownership' culture, where quality is everyone's responsibility.
• Design and lead recurring quality forums (quality councils, lessons-learned reviews, quality town halls) that build cross-functional ownership and celebrate quality wins.
• Personally model and reinforce quality behaviors: visible presence on the shop floor, hands-on engagement with frontline teams, transparent communication of quality status to all levels.
• Coach senior leaders across Operations, R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial on how to build quality into their respective functions - transferring ownership rather than centralizing it.
• Quality Organization Build-Out:
• Build, structure, and scale the BESS Quality organization across the full quality value chain - from supplier quality and incoming control, through process and product quality on the shop floor, to customer quality and quality development functions.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top quality talent; build a high-performance team with deep manufacturing, materials, and customer-facing capabilities.
• Define quality roles, responsibilities, capability frameworks, and career paths; invest in cont

Benefits

Additional Information

Lyten is leading an industrial revolution through Lyten 3D Graphene™, a breakthrough supermaterial unlocking a new generation of products - from lithium-sulfur batteries and energy storage systems to concrete admixtures, lightweight composites, and next-generation sensors that are revolutionizing industries. Together, these innovations are making a massive global improvement and driving real-world impact across energy, mobility, construction, and defense. At Lyten, we believe the most meaningful careers begin with purpose - and with people who want to make a difference. We're not just developing advanced supermaterials - we're about to change the world as we know it, reshaping how energy is stored, how products are built, and how progress is made. We're entering an exciting growth phase, scaling production across the U.S. and Europe and expanding our team of engineers, scientists, and innovators. Apply now to join our team and be part of something bigger than yourself - where collaboration, creativity, and purpose come together to build the technologies that will define the next century. Lyten is the Supermaterial Applications Company, pioneering 3D Graphene™ and Lithium-Sulfur battery technology to power the next industrial revolution. As we scale our Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Business Unit, quality is the gateway to every customer, every certification, and every market we enter. As Quality Director, you are the executive owner of quality across the entire BESS Business Unit. You will build the Quality function from a start-up reality into a world-class organization capable of meeting the expectations of BESS, defense, aerospace, and industrial customers operating in regulated, safety-critical environments. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will define and execute the BESS quality strategy, build and lead the full quality organization (covering process, supplier, incoming/outgoing, engineering, lab, customer quality, and quality development), and act as the primary quality voice to customers, certification bodies, and regulators. You are also accountable for the design, deployment, and continuous evolution of our Integrated Management System (IMS) and Quality Management System (QMS) frameworks. You move quality beyond a 'gatekeeper' function to a strategic capability that accelerates the business - enabling faster product launches, stronger customer trust, and a defensible competitive moat. Above all, you will build a quality culture across every level of the organization - making quality a shared responsibility rather than a function delegated to a single team. You are not the only one responsible for quality; you make everyone responsible for quality.

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