[Hiring] Sales Executive @EnergyHub

Role Description

Are you an enterprise sales professional with experience selling complex technology to utilities and passion for the clean energy field? EnergyHub has an opportunity available for you to join our expanding Sales team, with a focus on the highly strategic California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas markets. You will play a critical role in growing our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) business by initiating, developing, and building lasting relationships with utility customers.

This role will engage a broad set of utility stakeholders, including:

• Demand Response
• Transportation Electrification
• Distribution Planning/Operations
• IT
• Procurement teams

Our Sales Executives succeed by bringing deep domain expertise and thought leadership to utility conversations, building trusted relationships with decision-makers, and turning those relationships into a strong pipeline and consistent attainment of sales targets.

Main Responsibilities: What you’ll do

• Sell the company’s DERMS, VPP, and flexibility solutions to utilities, including targeting new clients and expanding scope with existing clients.
• Develop trusting relationships with clients and prospects, across multiple utility teams and spanning multiple levels (program level to executive level).
• Build and manage a robust sales pipeline, communicating progress and results while moving opportunities forward.
• Lead RFP responses and pursuit strategy, including early positioning with utility stakeholders ahead of RFP release, coordinating across internal teams such as Solutions Engineering, Regulatory, Proposal Development, Pricing, and Product.
• Develop compelling proposals (with support from internal teams), including narratives and pricing, that position EnergyHub for success in utility RFP processes.
• Provide utility prospects with business cases that support the value of EnergyHub’s offerings and address multiple value streams.
• Build and maintain account and renewal plans for key utilities.
• Work closely with utilities to understand current and future market needs and identify new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Sales, Product and Marketing teams to ensure that EnergyHub is building the right products and delivering the right messages to the market.
• Represent EnergyHub at conferences, trade shows, and industry events.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of SaaS or enterprise software sales experience.
• Demonstrated track record managing high-revenue business opportunities with long sales cycles and complex procurement processes, including navigating budgeting, approval, and contracting processes.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including fluency in pricing and business case models.
• Excellent written communication, verbal communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong desire to learn about the DERMS/VPP market and ability to work up the learning curve quickly.
• Flexibility for significant amount of travel (20-40%).

Requirements

• 5+ years of SaaS or enterprise software sales experience in the utility industry, with dedicated experience in the California, Arizona, Nevada, or Texas markets.
• Familiarity with how utilities budget for and approve technology investments.
• Experience designing or delivering utility demand side management (DR/DER/EE) programs.
• Deep industry network and an ability to generate leads independently.

Benefits

• Collaborate with outstanding people.
• Make an immediate impact.
• Gain well-rounded experience.
• Work with the latest technologies.
• Be part of something important.

Company Description

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

To learn more, visit energyhub.com.

Company Benefits

• EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match.
• We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.

EnergyHub is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process.