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About the Role
Modo Energy is seeking a Director, Americas to lead its US research and modeling organization. This role involves becoming a recognized authority in US power markets, leading a technically strong team, developing its leaders, and bringing its work closer to customers. The position requires comfort with challenging assumptions, handling people conversations, and explaining battery economics.
Responsibilities
- Build and develop the team, including recruiting strong people and developing research and modeling leaders.
- Own the credibility of the organization's work by understanding forecast and benchmark production, challenging assumptions, and ensuring conclusions withstand scrutiny.
- Translate customer needs into research priorities and product improvements by collaborating with technical teams.
- Represent Modo externally by building relationships with industry stakeholders and contributing to industry discussions.
- Support important customer decisions by leading technical discussions in sales and renewal conversations.
- Lead the organization day-to-day, handling difficult conversations, making decisions quickly, and removing obstacles.
- Spend approximately half the time internally and half with customers and the wider industry.
Requirements
- Practical US power-market expertise, understanding market fundamentals and how market design affects asset revenues and risk.
- Industry experience working inside an energy business, close to commercial or operating decisions.
- Forecasting judgment, including experience producing, commissioning, or evaluating long-term market outlooks.
- Technical and product understanding, with the ability to follow and challenge modeling approaches and work with technical specialists.
- Proven people leadership experience, ideally with teams of ten or more.
- Customer credibility and industry presence, with established relationships and the ability to lead discussions.
- Independence and urgency, delivering with limited support and taking initiative.
- Ambition, honesty, and low ego, with the ability to challenge ideas constructively and seek feedback.
- Leaders are expected to raise standards, hire people who take ownership, and make good decisions at speed.
- Leaders develop their teams, give others visibility, and create an environment for open challenge.
- This is a hands-on role requiring hard work and visible leadership.
- Take responsibility when something goes wrong, share bad news quickly, and act.
Skills
- US power market expertise
- ERCOT expertise
- PJM expertise
- Energy industry experience
- Forecasting
- Market outlook evaluation
- Technical understanding
- Product understanding
- People leadership
- Customer relationship management
- Public speaking
- Communication
- Independence
- Urgency
- Ambition
- Honesty
- Low ego
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Office (Tuesday-Thursday)
- Flexible (Monday, Friday)
Experience Level
- Director
Salary/Compensations
- $300,000-$400,000 per year
Benefits
- Equity
- 25 days PTO + 10 paid holidays
- 401K with matching
- 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision plan coverage for you + dependents
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation Assistance
About the Company
- Modo Energy is the data platform at the center of the energy transition, providing benchmarking, forecasting, and valuation tools for energy investors, developers, and operators.
- Founded in 2019, the company has over 90 employees across London, New York, Sydney, and Madrid.
- Modo Energy has raised $30M in Series B funding and is described as AI-native and fast-moving.
- This is an opportunity to join a category-defining company during its global scaling phase.
- The company believes exceptional work deserves exceptional reward and fosters a high-performance, ambitious, and collaborative team environment.
- Modo Energy offers real ownership from day one, work with industry leaders, and is defining a new category in the global energy market.
Equal Opportunity
- Modo Energy is an equal opportunity employer, making employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
- The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, New York State, or New York City law.
- Assistance or reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process is available by contacting careers@modoenergy.com.