ENERGY STORAGE ANALYST

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I. MISSION & FOUNDER THESIS

II. HOW YOU GET US THERE

III. A SHAKESPEARE QUOTE 

MISSION

BECOME THE COMPANY THAT WINS THE ENERGY TRANSITION. WHERE IT STARTS:

Powertown is deploying commercial and Industrial battery storage faster than ever before. Our goal is to stitch resilience into our electric grid by delivering easy, tangible value to a paying customer. The grid needs us: there’s a reason everyone is talking about energy / battery storage. This is the time to create value and shape markets.

What the product actually is: Powertown is not a hardware company; it is an engine for rapidly deployable distributed power. The physical battery is the medium, but the product is the platform that allows energy assets to be moved, integrated, and monetized at the speed of logistics rather than construction.

We are seeing long into the future of market shaping. We are very clear on where we start, and where we end. Thus, we are all about quality of execution. Here’s why we want to build this for the next 30 years:

  1. “Climate tech” will soon be called resilience tech/bad infra tech. Our built environment is in deep trouble. Decarbonizing takes on new value starting now.

  2. We believe that if you give a human a clear, rooted mission, they will chase it at full capacity. And they will win. America deserves mission-driven companies that are engines for good.

  3. Our market opportunity, the battery storage space, is worth trillions. We are early.

FOUNDER THESIS

WE ARE ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY-OBSESSED PEOPLE. EVERYTHING WE DO IS ROOTED IN MISSION, OUTCOME, AND LONGEVITY

We are two Harvard students deep in the energy and electricity world. From research,  jobs, and American expeditions, we derived a patriotic (resilience), value-based perspective on the energy transition. 

We went full-time this summer to build the foundation. We’ve hit milestones, received top incubator offers, built a network of world-class advisors, and gained enough demand to bring the right people on board. Our first battery deploys this winter. The next year will be our most intense yet. We have architected the company so that with the right team, we’ll win.

WHAT YOU SOLVE TO GET US THERE

BE THE SUBJECT-EXPERT RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING AND OWNING A TRILLION DOLLAR MARKET

It’s hard to accurately predict and deliver the value of a BESS across many types of buildings/regions. You’ll solve this problem by pioneering the world’s most accurate and standardized value prediction to value delivery method.

You’ll validate the site-level savings engine that underpins Powertown’s business. You’ll work across building type (ie, ski resorts, warehouses, office parks, industrials) to design charge/discharge logic, prove savings, and generate bankable subscription prices. Most likely, you’ve taken a C&I battery from model to field and made it work. That practical edge is what will make Powertown’s modeling engine best-in-class.

This role is not just forecasting. You will also be the in-house expert for C&I EMS and dispatch design. You’ll know how to run a standalone battery at a building, charge/discharge in response to tariffs, and maximize value streams like peak shaving, arbitrage, and value of resilience. You’ll design site-specific dispatch logic in your sleep and then work with the Founding Engineer to productize it into Powertown’s platform. This role is about raw modeling and practical dispatch prowess: you are the brain of the operation. This is a high-ownership role. You will need to be aggressively inventive to achieve precise outcomes. If you are looking for simple instructions and a paved road, you should not build Powertown with us. 

QUALIFICATIONS THAT WILL HELP GET TO THESE OUTCOMES FASTER

  • You are craving a career-defining challenge: If you are looking for something comfortable, do not build Powertown with us. 

  • Experience seeing a C&I battery project through end-to-end (permitting, modeling, dispatch, and financial performance validation)

  • Proven experience designing dispatch logic / EMS for behind the meter batteries at the top of the industry standard.

  • Rich financial modeling and data analysis skills.

  • Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, Pyomo/PULP or equivalent optimization libs).

  • Understanding of tariffs, demand charges, and BTM savings mechanisms.

  • Experience integrating models with APIs, telemetry, or EMS platforms.

  • Comfort validating models against both bills and real operational data.

  • Ability to collaborate tightly with software engineers to productionize modeling logic.

  • You have integrity and are mission-aligned: If you are driven by your ego and have a hard time working with others, you should not build Powertown with us. 

  • You want to build a generational company with young people: If you feel uninspired or reduced by working with young people who have less career experience than you, don’t work here. 

III. A SHAKESPEARE QUOTE

As the confidently non-CS half of this company:

“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.”

― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar