Market Development Specialist

About Us

Leap’s mission is to combat climate change by enabling a reliable electric grid that runs on clean energy. The electric grid is transforming from dirty (but predictable) fossil fuels to clean (but less predictable) renewable energy. To do so, the grid needs more flexible demand and supply to help maintain stability and reliability.

Leap plays a crucial role in opening up wholesale energy markets to all distributed energy resources, enabling our partners to get paid for providing flexibility to the grid.

Leap is a privately-held tech company with funding from top VCs and well-known energy entrepreneurs. We are a remote distributed workplace with teammates based across the globe, in Europe and North America.

Overview

We’re seeking an individual with expertise in wholesale electricity markets ,and demand response, and cross-functional project management. This role will help Leap evaluate future markets and programs to enter, and then coordinate lead the cross-functional launch process for new chosen markets/programs.

Requirements

- 3-5 years of experience in wholesale electricity markets, policy, utility demand response programs, and/or new market entry, or working with Distributed Energy Resources.

- Can investigate and synthesize complicated policies and market rules, and effectively communicate key concepts to a variety of stakeholders

- Are detail-oriented and can manage multiple tasks and/or projects effectively

- Experience with North American, Japan, the UK, and/or European electricity markets.

- Experience managing cross-functional projects with a diverse group of stakeholders

- Are opportunity-focused and enjoy working cross-functionally across an organization to achieve consensus and jointly launch new markets, but are also perfectly capable of working autonomously.

- Experience working in a remote or hybrid environment or demonstrating the ability to be productive and engaged, manage time effectively, work independently and succeed in a fully remote environment.

- Experience working in a distributed teams environment or demonstrating the ability to virtually communicate and collaborate effectively with team members across multiple time zones, using remote communication tools such as Slack, Zoom and ClickUp (or other project management platforms)