Senior VPP Operations Lead – Battery Storage SaaS

enspired; Wien; On-site; EUR 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

60 days of work from anywhere

Referral bonus

Regular social events in Austria

Offsetting your private CO2 emissions

Free lunch & fruits and fair-trade COF

Sustainable enspired merch

Job summary

enspired is seeking a Senior VPP Operations Expert to own and optimize our Virtual Power Plant SaaS platform, ensuring BESS assets are configured and dispatched to meet commercial goals.

You will bridge energy market strategies with asset performance, manage vendor relationships, onboard new assets, and support trading and dispatch teams with on-call rotations. Based in Austria, relocation possible.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of power markets (Day-Ahead, Intraday, Balancing).
• Experience with German Balancing Markets (FCR and aFRR prequalification) and settlement.
• Proven asset dispatch experience for battery storage systems (SoC management, cycling constraints).
• Ability to manage complex B2B SaaS tools and admin interfaces.
• Attention to detail in a high-stakes grid environment; quality over speed.

Responsibilities

• Own VPP software configuration and platform optimization to translate market signals into asset behaviour.
• Coordinate with external software provider; translate requirements into feature requests; monitor SLAs.
• Monitor asset portfolio in real time; troubleshoot issues to minimize revenue loss and grid penalties.
• Onboard new assets: telemetry, communication protocols, control tests.
• Participate in rotating on-call to support trading and dispatch teams.

Skills

Energy markets

VPP operations

BESS dispatch

SoC management

SaaS administration

Stakeholder management

On-call support

Tools

SaaS platform

Job description

enspired is seeking a Senior VPP Operations Expert to own and optimize our Virtual Power Plant SaaS platform, ensuring BESS assets are configured and dispatched to meet commercial goals.

You will bridge energy market strategies with asset performance, manage vendor relationships, onboard new assets, and support trading and dispatch teams with on-call rotations. Based in Austria, relocation possible.