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About the Role
We are looking for a Strategy Associate with a passion for renewable energy and the decarbonization mission, who wants to join the US strategy team of a rapidly growing global energy tech business. This role focuses on corporate development and transformative commercial opportunities, from origination through execution, aiming to drive step changes in growth, valuation, and impact.
Responsibilities
- Own discrete strategic projects end to end, including sizing opportunities, building cases, securing decisions, and implementation.
- Work across the US energy landscape on emerging opportunities such as battery deployment, powered land, retail supply, and utility programs.
- Realize value in M&A activity by integrating businesses, pursuing synergies, and building proof points for future strategy.
- Turn early-stage initiatives into repeatable operations, developing playbooks for scaling.
- Partner with the OE US CFO on strategic finance and budgeting, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
- Build commercial and analytical foundations, including unit economics, market structure, and counterparty landscape.
- Operate with a clear understanding of the destination and constraints, rather than relying on detailed project plans.
Requirements
- Strong analytical foundation from strategy consultancy, investment bank, PE/VC, corp dev, high-growth operating role, or service background.
- Proven track record of execution, not just recommendations.
- Fluency in spreadsheets and understanding of how budgets, forecasts, and business cases connect to strategic projects.
- Comfort owning outcomes with limited oversight.
- Commercial instinct for deals, integrations, and partnerships, with discipline to track synergy cases.
- Sufficient technical curiosity to quickly learn unfamiliar areas of the energy sector.
- Values-led with a passion for decarbonization and the US energy transition.
- A bias for action and a high tolerance for ambiguity.
- Non-traditional backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Spreadsheet proficiency
- Commercial acumen
- Deal structuring
- Partnership development
- Synergy tracking
- Technical curiosity
- Strategic thinking
- Project management
- Financial modeling
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
- Flexible working environment
Experience Level
- Associate
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000-$130,000 annually
Benefits
- Equity Options Scheme
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 days of paid vacation annually
- 8 paid sick days annually
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Parental leave (biological, adoptive, and foster parents)
- Genuine work-life balance
About the Company
- Octopus is a tech-powered energy company focused on addressing climate change through technology.
- We are changing the energy industry by making it approachable, low cost, easy-to-understand, and 100% renewable.
- Octopus is a rapidly growing global energy tech business.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute.
- Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.