Director of Energy and Flexibility Trading

Are you passionate about accelerating the transition towards zero carbon energy systems and do you thrive in a fast-paced scale-up environment? At Gridle, your work helps industries and households unlock the full potential of energy storage while ensuring a more balanced, resilient and economic electricity grid. 

About us 

At Elisa Industriq, we drive operational intelligence innovations across multiple industries with over 1,500 experts worldwide. Gridle is at the heart of this mission for energy sector, using AI and automation to make renewable energy work seamlessly as wind and solar take center stage in power generation. Intelligent control of energy storage assets can provide increased flexibility that the energy system increasingly requires.

Gridle manages and optimizes energy storage assets of all sizes, from the world’s largest sand-based thermal storage unit and more traditional grid-scale batteries all the way to thousands of distributed batteries in national critical telecom infrastructure and residential households.

We are growing rapidly and are looking for passionate individuals who want to create tangible impact, work with cutting-edge technology, and bring new innovations to the world. Our multidisciplinary team of more than 50 experts brings together deep knowledge in energy markets, data science, commercialization, and software development. We operate like a scale-up within Elisa, combining the agility of a lean business with the resources and stability of a corporation.

The role

As a Director of Energy and Flexibility Trading, you will be an integral part of our multidisciplinary team, utilizing data and AI to tackle flexibility challenges associated with the increasing prominence of wind and solar energy. Your main focus will be on identifying and prioritizing energy flexibility trading opportunities across energy and ancillary services markets. You work closely together with AI developers and energy market experts to design and implement multi-market algorithmic trading solutions and improve their performance over time. In addition, you will take responsibility over relevant energy market regulatory compliance and risk management.   

Key responsibilities & requirements: 

• In-depth knowledge and experience of the energy sector: Demonstrated expertise in navigating and addressing challenges within the evolving European energy and ancillary services landscape, with a nuanced perspective from trading optimization and regulatory compliance. 
• Trading performance development: You can set direction and lead new initiatives that improve multimarket optimization and short-term energy trading capabilities. You can translate market opportunities into algorithmic trading capabilities, and you can identify where new AI and optimization techniques best improve commercial performance of assets under our management.
• Process and compliance development: You are familiar with European REMIT regulations governing energy and ancillary services markets and can put effective compliance and risk management processes in place in rapidly developing environment.

Your background: 

• Minimum 5 years experience and proven results in developing energy and ancillary services trading practices. Hands-on experience of physical day-ahead and intraday energy trading, as well as wide European experience, are considered as pluses. 
• Know-how and in-depth knowledge of energy markets, ancillary services, and related regulatory issues.
• Proven track record of collaboration with AI developers and mathematical optimization specialists to design and implement projects that deliver results. You have experience of working with state-of-the-art algo-trading platforms.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to bring together technical specialists, energy domain experts and business people into development projects.
• Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to conduct business in additional European languages, such as German, is considered a plus.
• Enthusiasm for innovation within the zero-carbon energy ecosystem, coupled with solid business acumen. We would be thrilled if you would have experience of structuring different revenue stream models (including off-taking and Flexibility Purchasing Agreements) for flexibility asset owners.
• While the primary location for this role is in Helsinki, we are open to discussing alternative locations within the EU. Join us in shaping the future of sustainable energy for the C&I segment. 

Why join us? 

• As you can see, you will be given a large portion of responsibility, but equal amounts of freedom and trust. You are surrounded by over 6000 friendly Elisians, who never hesitate to come to your assistance. At Elisa, curiosity and the drive to develop are part of our culture, along with a genuine invitation to come as you are. We truly understand and value the fact that each elisian comes with families, hobbies, problems, backgrounds and lives of their own, and that work should be adjusted according to your life and not the other way around. Read more about Elisa and the elisians here Read more about Elisa and the elisians here.  
• We can't wait to get to know you a bit better! We will start the interviews with promising candidates immediately, so submit your application through the link below as soon as possible! 
• If you have any questions about the role or Gridle | Elisa Industriq, please turn to Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita at jukka-pekka.salmenkaita(a)elisa.com. Welcome to our team!