Director, Grid Connections

The role

You will lead the delivery of the Self-Service Grid Connection Toolkit project. You will provide commercial, product, delivery, and customer leadership to create Neara's Grid Connections solution.

What you will do

• Own overall project outcomes and make time, cost and product trade-offs
• Manage Customer Success engineers assigned to the Project
• Define efficient, scalable product expansion in collaboration with product leadership
• Lead GET partner relationships to secure data and customer decisions
• Own GET customer readiness and acceptance outcomes
• Explain product capabilities through technical workshops and demonstrations
• Build interest with T/DNSPs and external users
• Own the evidence of product benefits and supply verified findings for reporting

Required qualifications

• Substantial Australian electricity or energy-sector experience
• Practical understanding of distribution network connections and relevant customer workflows
• Proven commercial leader with ability to commercialise and expand energy-sector technologies
• Demonstrated project outcome leadership across customer, engineering and product teams
• Ability to turn customer discovery into prioritised requirements and acceptance criteria
• Ability to explain technical value to senior stakeholders and develop business cases

Nice to have

• Experience with DER integration
• Network planning
• Technical product commercialisation
• Government-funded projects
• Grid connection policy and reform

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• ESOP
• Significant career development and global growth opportunities
• Fully flexible working arrangements
• Well-stocked office in Redfern

About the company

Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids. They acquired Zepben to create an integrated digital twin for assessing physical and electrical constraints.