Role: Head Electricity & Power Liaison

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 power strategy and liaison for the E-Pump network, ensuring reliable, uninterrupted, and cost-effective electricity. The role will drive faster power connections, load enhancements, transformer installations, and alternative power programs while building strong relationships with DISCOMs and electricity authorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Power Cost Optimization: Source the most cost-effective power for E-Pumps and continuously identify opportunities to reduce electricity costs.
• Alternative Energy Programs: Develop and drive programs such as solar, open access, green power, and other viable channels to optimize the overall power cost.
• DISCOM & Government Liaison: Build and maintain strong relationships with electricity boards, DISCOMs, and relevant authorities to enable faster approvals and execution.
• Power Infrastructure: Drive timely installation of new transformers, meters, connections, and infrastructure required for new E-Pumps.
• Load Enhancement: Own and accelerate additional load requirements for existing and upcoming E-Pumps.
• Power Reliability: Ensure uninterrupted and quality power supply by proactively resolving power-related issues and working closely with DISCOMs.
• Power Playbook: Develop a standardized Power Charter covering power requirements, load, transformer sizing, connection process, timelines, costs, and approvals for all new sites.
• Installation Cost Optimization: Identify opportunities to reduce the cost and turnaround time of new power installations and additional load enhancements.
• Program & Performance Management: Track power connections, load enhancements, transformer installations, costs, timelines, and outages across the network.

Key Success Metrics

Power cost per unit | Power connection TAT | Load enhancement TAT | Transformer installation TAT | Power availability & reliability | Installation cost | Renewable/alternative power contribution

Ideal Candidate

• 10–20 years of experience in electricity/power liaison, DISCOMs, power infrastructure, or utility management.
• Strong relationships and proven liaisoning experience with DISCOMs, electricity boards, and government authorities.
• Candidates with backgrounds as Assistant Engineers / Engineers in DISCOMs or electricity boards, including retired engineers working on a consulting/freelance basis, would be ideal.
• Strong understanding of power connections, load enhancement, transformers, metering, approvals, and electricity regulations.
• Highly execution-oriented with the ability to drive approvals and installations at speed.

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.