Who are we?

We’re Axle. You’d be working with our founders, Karl and Archy, and our small but mighty team. We like food, books, and being outdoors in a climate that’s not too different to what we have today. Feel free to say hello on LinkedIn or drop us an email.

What do we do?

Axle is a venture-backed energy flexibility startup. Axle connects EVs, batteries, and electric heating to flex markets.

Flex markets are how electricity system operators procure the various services they need to keep the grid humming. These include:

• the wholesale energy market: buying and selling energy
• frequency & balancing: adjusting supply and demand in real time to correct imbalances
• demand-response: reducing energy use when the grid is at it’s most strained
• local (DNO) flexibility: managing localised constraints on the grid

These markets are rapidly changing: they were designed for an era before renewables, with large thermal power plants in mind, and grid operators frequently adjust these markets to meet changing needs.

What does “Market Expansion” mean?

This role is responsible for all things market-related. This includes:

• figuring out which flexibility markets we should be participating in, and staying up-to-date on changes in the market
• entering new flexibility markets in the UK and globally
• defining the product requirements for market participation

What are we looking for?

This is a technical and domain-heavy role, but the relevant domain knowledge can be learned. To succeed in this role you’ll need the interest & ability to absorb & process highly-technical information, the foresight to design & execute long-term projects (and course-correct when necessary), and a ‘run through walls’ attitude to overcome the barriers to get us into markets at a startup-urgent pace.

You can expect:

• insane amounts of ownership
• hard technical challenges