About Electra

Air travel is about to become something more: more direct, more accessible, and more connected to the places where people live, work and want to be. Every day in the U.S., people make 35 million trips of 50–500 miles, stuck in traffic or routed through crowded hubs. Chances are, you've been one of them. At Electra, we're changing that with the EL9, a nine-passenger, hybrid-electric aircraft that takes off and lands in just 150 feet. Our Ultra Short technology opens up thousands of new places to fly, beyond conventional runways, congested airports and long drives. We're backed by Lockheed Martin, Honeywell and Safran. Operators worldwide have signed intent-to-purchase agreements for the first 2,200 aircraft we produce, and we're moving toward first test flights in 2027.

Getting a new kind of aircraft airborne takes more than ambition. It takes our kind of bold: people who think big while working in the real world. Who move ideas into action and collaborate without silos. Who put people first and make room at the table for everyone. Who challenge one another without diminishing one another.

Sound like you? Then look beyond what you thought were your own limits, and help us take flight beyond runways.

The Role

Electra seeks a highly effective, strategic, well-networked, and collaborative Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) to lead Electra's engagement with the commercial market and, importantly, to bring together the necessary ecosystem to launch the entirely new category of Direct Aviation.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the CCO will lead a team that consists of professionals that hold three core accountabilities: Selling, Marketing, and Market Development.

Selling: The CCO and team are responsible, globally, for converting Electra's 2,000+ backlog of EL9 commercial market LOIs and its non-LOI'd commercial sales pipeline into firm, fixed price Deposit Agreements, featuring significant, non-refundable Pre-Delivery Payment (PDP) deposits. The team will also be responsible for ensuring airline customers have access to finance and lease solutions for EL9 aircraft procurement.

Marketing: The CCO and team build, maintain and deploy the suite of operational modeling tools and marketing collateral that support customer evaluation of the EL9 from the multiple perspectives of Fleet, Network and Operations. In addition, the CCO develops and delivers Electra's customer partnership for commercial market demos.

Market Development: Market Development has three intersecting components: delivery of commercial market demos, access point development and associated operational regulatory enablement. Access point development encompasses creation of Electra's partnerships with the third parties who develop and operate Ultra Short access points to accommodate EL9 operations. In addition, this work will include further strategic assessment of in-house access point development. Operational regulatory enablement encompasses working directly with the FAA and State and Local authorities to establish approvals, policy, and guidance to support Ultra Short operations at novel access points on- and off-airports, including managing Electra's eIPP commitments with DOT.

This is a high-impact executive role requiring significant experience in global aviation, rigorous commercial negotiation, aviation finance, market development efforts, regulatory and government engagement, and proven success in building a revenue engine in an analogous environment. Prior start-up experience is a significant plus.

What You'll Do

Executive & Strategic Leadership

Serve as a strategic advisor and business partner to the CEO, Board of Advisors, and executive leadership team
Partner cross-functionally with product development, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations, test and certification, and in-service operations leadership to align commercial customer strategy with product and operational readiness
Partner with Electra Defense leadership to align overlapping engagements between the Commercial and Defense businesses