Market Development Associate

About the role

Experience working in remote or hybrid environments across time zones, demonstrating the ability to thrive in distributed teams through asynchronous communication, strong time management, independent work, and sustained productivity and engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifying, assessing, and prioritizing the most promising new market and product opportunities for Leap’s virtual power plant (VPP) technology platform.
• Cultivating relationships and expansion opportunities with Utilities, Retailers, and other buyers of energy, capacity, and ancillary services in North American markets.
• Working across internal teams, as well as with clients and partners, to achieve market entry success.
• Tracking market trends to identify future opportunities and expand Leap’s presence in both existing and new markets.
• Organizing market and product information to provide input to our Product, Engineering, and Operational teams to develop our platform.

Requirements

• Must haves:
  • 2+ 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 proficient in policy analysis, market research and assessment, and/or data analysis.
  • Are detail-oriented and can manage multiple tasks and/or projects effectively.
• Nice To Haves:
  • Experience with North American, Japan, the UK, and/or European markets.
  • Are opportunity-focused and enjoy working cross-functionally across an organization, but are also perfectly capable of working autonomously.
  • Experience tracking and advocating in regulatory proceedings in the energy sector.
  • Experience working in remote or hybrid environments across time zones, demonstrating the ability to thrive in distributed teams through asynchronous communication, strong time management, independent work, and sustained productivity and engagement.

Benefits

• 100% Remote Environment
• Medical + Dental + Vision Coverage
• Life, AD&D, and Long-Term & Short Term Disability Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO, Company Holidays, & End-of-Year Employee Appreciation Week

Pay

We use a compensation framework to keep the ranges as equitable as possible, using benchmarks inclusive of experience level and updated annually.

Schedule

Full-time / Remote / and EST, CST, MST preferred, PST candidates considered.