About this role
Role: Asset Manager
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 asset and spare-parts lifecycle for the E-Pump network, ensuring timely asset deployment for new pumps and reliable spare-part availability for existing pumps. The role will focus on improving asset readiness, reducing downtime, and eliminating recurring spare availability issues through strong program management.
Key Responsibilities
- New Pump Asset Readiness: Ensure timely availability, installation, and connection of all required assets for new E-Pumps to support on-time commissioning.
- Spare Parts Management: Own spare-part planning, inventory, availability, and replenishment for existing E-Pumps.
- OTIF Availability: Ensure critical spares are available On Time, In Full (OTIF) at the required locations.Balance availability and inventory levels while minimizing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving spares.
- Program Management: Identify recurring spare availability issues and drive structured programs to eliminate root causes and improve availability.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Vendors, and Expansion teams to ensure asset and spare readiness.
- Cost Management: track and optimize cost of spares and provide input to the engineering team for reducing spare failures.
Key Success Metrics
New pump asset readiness | Spare OTIF | Stock-out reduction | Asset availability | Spare inventory efficiency | Resolution TAT | Downtime reduction
Ideal Candidate
- 5–10 years of experience in asset management, spare-parts management, supply chain, maintenance, or operations.
- Strong experience in spare planning, inventory management, and vendor coordination.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional programs and resolve recurring availability issues.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and execution skills.
- Experience in EV charging, automotive, infrastructure, logistics, or other asset-intensive businesses is preferred.
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.