Market Development Lead, Asia

🔥 21 hours ago

⛩ Asia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Open Energy Transition

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Logistics • Non-profit

Open Energy Transition is a non-profit environmental consultancy, think tank, and open-source software development organization focused on transforming energy planning for the global transition to sustainable energy. It develops, co-maintains, and applies open-source energy system modelling tools (including PyPSA, PyPSA-Eur/Earth, Linopy, and atlite), builds secure applications that integrate proprietary data, and provides customized modelling, software development, support, and training to enable reproducible, accessible, and locally maintainable energy planning.

📋 Description

• Accelerate adoption of open-source energy modelling across selected priority markets in Asia • Build relationships with system operators, ministries, regulators, consultants, research institutions and other energy-planning organizations • Grow awareness of open-source energy modelling through engagement, conferences, seminars, workshops and regional networks • Identify opportunities where open approaches can make a meaningful difference and turn conversations into project concepts • Help identify potential funders and develop funding routes when funding is needed • Respond to tenders and procurement processes, including opportunities from the Asian Development Bank and other international institutions • Monitor emerging priorities, institutional developments, funding opportunities, competing approaches and changes in Asia’s energy-modelling landscape • Feed regional insights to senior leadership, Marketing, and Communications to improve strategy, positioning and outreach • Advise technical project teams on the context of Asian energy-system modelling • Own opportunities from initial engagement through contracting, collaborating with OET colleagues and the Head of Research & Market Development on large or strategic opportunities • Report to the Head of Research & Market Development • Work closely with Marketing and Project Leads • Undertake regular regional travel, with at least monthly travel expected

🎯 Requirements

• English proficiency is mandatory • Significant relevant experience, typically 8+ years • Relevant experience in market development, consulting, a system operator, ministry, regulator, university or research organization • Ability to work autonomously in a fully remote, geographically distributed team • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and adapt in an evolving environment • Strong communication, tactfulness and asynchronous cross-functional collaboration skills • Meaningful relationships with energy sector institutions in at least some priority Asian markets • Understanding of energy planning decisions, influential stakeholders and institutional interactions • Hands-on experience with power or energy system modelling • Understanding of energy modelling approaches, capabilities and limitations • Ability to build trust, lead conversations with senior decision makers, deliver presentations and seminars, facilitate workshops, and explain complex technical subjects • Strong judgment and ability to turn relationships into funded projects or contracts • Genuine commitment to open-source approaches • Entrepreneurial, culturally aware and highly autonomous working style • German and other language proficiency is a bonus • Experience with PyPSA or other open-source projects is a bonus • Experience at a startup, nonprofit and/or in the energy sector is a bonus • Experience on a fully remote, distributed team is a bonus • Experience with xxxxxx TOOLS or similar platforms is a bonus • Experience responding to tenders or developing projects with multilateral or bilateral development institutions is a bonus • Experience with development finance, philanthropic funding or donor-funded energy programs is a bonus • A university degree is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• A flexible, fully remote work environment with autonomous working and zero micro-management • Competitive salary • Guaranteed annual reviews • Growth potential • Relevant benefits depending on country of residence • Supportive onboarding and tailored training • Learning and development support from the company • Ability to request expensing for home office items • Opportunity to contribute meaningfully to company culture and processes