Head of Business Development

Responsibilities / What You'll Do

• Lead and grow Seabound's commercial function, owning customer and key partner relationships
• Drive near-term commercial execution and build foundations for long-term sales, business development, and partnerships capabilities
• Secure commercial deals for demonstrations, early deployments, and longer-term agreements
• Develop pricing strategy, build customer pipeline, and convert traction into contracted revenue

This role helps materially reduce emissions from the global shipping industry - one of the world's hardest-to-abate sectors - by commercializing a world-first climate technology that captures CO₂ emissions directly onboard ships.

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in commercial, business development, or sales roles
• Experience in complex, B2B, long-sales-cycle environments (industrial, energy, infrastructure, maritime, climate tech, or similar)
• Demonstrated history of originating, negotiating, and closing material commercial agreements
• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders including shipowners, C-suite executives, technical teams, and regulators

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Significant scope to shape how Seabound's entire commercial function is built and operates
• Outsized scope and responsibility as one of Seabound's earliest and most critical commercial hires
• Work closely with a strong, highly technical team
• Play a central role in taking Seabound from first commercial deployments to scaled adoption across the global shipping industry

Seabound is an award-winning startup decarbonizing global shipping by capturing CO₂ emissions directly onboard ships. The company has completed two world-first pilots, raised over $10M in funding, and is now entering its commercialization and scale-up phase.