Strategy and Operations Associate (Remote / San Diego)

About the Team The VECKTA Marketplace connects buyers with providers of capital, equipment, and services to deploy renewable-led onsite energy systems to commercial and industrial sites across North America and Australia. As the market scales, we are building our strategy and operations team to coordinate growth, and to deliver great outcomes for all participants in our ecosystem. About the role: On a typical day, you will be guiding new demand into the market and working closely with supplier partners to get great proposals for energy projects. You will help guide our product strategy, build tools and refine processes to help our users and the VECKTA team 10x their impact, analyze data to understand and improve performance, and ensure we never stop growing and performing. If you have a bias toward action, enjoy moving fast, and have demonstrated success in using operational excellence to drive business impact, we want to hear from you! What you’ll do The primary responsibility of Strategy and Operations is to ensure participants in VECKTA’s ecosystem build great relationships, enjoy a positive experience, and get the value they desire from VECKTA. Responsibilities include: Connecting commercial and industrial energy users to the capital, equipment and services they need to build onsite energy systems Helping suppliers profitably grow their businesses with access to proven opportunities Contributing to VECKTA’s product strategy, bringing validated learnings from the market into our technology roadmap Success in this role means accelerating the deployment of distributed energy systems, and the transition to a more resilient, lower carbon future. You will use your relationship building and facilitation skills to help VECKTA users get the absolute most out of our platform, and you will be an empowered decision maker to act on your penchant for data and analytics in managing market dynamics, spotting opportunities, and capturing them to grow the market. This role will work closely with our: Sales team, who source onsite energy opportunities and help move the project development forward; Capital Markets team, who ensure efficient funding of projects; Modeling team, who complete technical and economic optimization of on-site energy projects; Product team, who plan and manage the development of our technology platform. You’re excited about this opportunity because... You are excited about getting your hands dirty as an operator, while making the connection between business strategy, product strategy, and customer outcomes. You love to push yourself to achieve extraordinary results, and through that will push VECKTA to be the best we can be. We love team members who are: Enthusiastically engaging and committed to building great relationships with VECKTA users across the demand and supply sides of the market; Curious about what makes markets work, with a burning desire to make the VECKTA marketplace an amazing place to do business; Determined to make a positive impact on the world. The energy transition could not be more critical to humanity right now, and we play an essential role in accelerating change. A background in either or both of the following is a bonus: Renewable energy project development or energy procurement Strategy & operations in either B2B or B2C marketplaces Qualifications and experience: 1+ years of experience post-graduation in a related field A bachelor’s degree VECKTA is a remote-first company, with team members based across North America and Australia. To give you an idea of time-zones and your typical work day, our home base is in San Diego, and our market operations leader is based in Melbourne, Australia. We get the team together in San Diego on a regular basis. Please include in your application a brief cover letter, letting us know (1) what excites you about this opportunity and (2) how you believe your skills, knowledge and experience will help to accelerate growth in the VECKTA Marketplace.