About Modo Energy

The energy transition is the biggest infrastructure buildout in human history. Modo Energy is the data platform at the centre of it.

We build the benchmarking, forecasting, and valuation tools that the world's most serious energy investors, developers, and operators depend on to make decisions. If a battery gets financed, built, or traded anywhere in the world, there's a good chance Modo Energy's data was in the room.

Founded in 2019, we're ~100 people across London, New York, Sydney, and Madrid; $30M Series B, AI-native, and moving fast.

This is a rare chance to join a category-defining company at the moment it's scaling globally.

Location: New York. In the office Tuesday–Thursday, with regular customer and industry travel. Relocation support available.

Reports to: CEO

Salary: $300,000-$400,000 per year, paid entirely as base salary. No annual bonus.

Start date: As soon as possible

About the role

We’re hiring a Director, Americas to lead our US research and modeling organization and become a recognized authority for Modo in US power markets.

You will lead a technically strong team, develop its leaders and bring its work closer to customers. You should be comfortable challenging a modeling assumption, handling a difficult people conversation and explaining battery economics to an investment committee.

The research and modeling leaders will report directly to you. You will own regional hiring, performance, research priorities, modeling quality and delivery within agreed budgets and company priorities.

The initial focus is the US. Sales remains with our global revenue team, and the role initially carries no P&L responsibility. There is scope for the remit to expand into professional services over time.

The opportunity

You will have direct access to the CEO, freedom to shape the organization and an established research and modeling team to build on. You will work alongside regional peers across Modo, sharing ideas and expertise while taking responsibility for the US organization.

Our events, Transmission podcast and research platform will help you grow your industry profile and build relationships with the people making decisions across power markets.

Success means stronger regional leaders, work that customers trust and an organization capable of scaling with greater independence.

What you’ll do

Build and develop the team. Recruit strong people, develop the research and modeling leaders, and shape the organization as it grows. Set clear expectations, recognize excellent work and address underperformance directly.
Own the credibility of our work. Understand how our forecasts and benchmarks are produced. Challenge assumptions, recognize limitations and ensure conclusions stand up to scrutiny from customers and lenders.
Turn customer needs into better products. Spend time with the people using our work. Translate their questions into research priorities and product improvements, working closely with technical teams to deliver them.
Represent Modo externally. Build relationships across asset owners, developers, utilities, trading businesses, banks and investors. Speak at conferences, host events and contribute to podcasts and industry discussions.
Support important customer decisions. Lead technical discussions in sales and renewal conversations. Explain market outlooks, defend our approach and help customers understand the implications for their assets.
Lead the organization day to day. Handle difficult conversations with judgement and candor. Make decisions quickly, remove obstacles and keep unnecessary process out of the team’s way.

Expect to spend approximately half your time internally and half with customers and the wider industry. You will help the team build the same habit of regular customer contact.

What you’ll bring

Practical US power-market expertise. You understand market fundamentals and how differences in market design affect asset revenues and risk. Broad knowledge is preferred; exceptional ERCOT or PJM expertise can qualify alongside wider understanding.