Grid Connections Director — Energy Grid Digital Twin Leader

Neara; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + ESOP

Career development and global growth

Fully flexible working arrangements; a

Well‑stocked Redfern office

Meritocratic, no‑ego culture

Impactful, complex real‑world problems

Job summary

Neara is building digital twins for electricity grids using machine learning to stress‑test infrastructure and accelerate energy transition. The Director, Grid Connections will lead integration and development of the Grid Connections capability, coordinating product, delivery and customer success teams across GET projects with Australian utilities and government engagement.

You will manage a Delivery Lead, drive data readiness, and champion a new software category that expands Neara and Zepben

Qualifications

• Substantial Australian electricity or energy‑sector experience, with practical understanding of distribution network connections and relevant customer workflows.
• Proven commercial leader, with demonstrated ability to commercialise and expand the adoption of energy‑sector technologies.
• Demonstrated project outcome leadership across customer, engineering and product teams, including making time, cost and product trade‑offs.
• Ability to turn customer discovery into prioritised requirements, acceptance criteria and timely product decisions, and validate product fit through practical testing.
• Ability to explain technical value to senior stakeholders, influence customer decisions and develop credible evidence and business cases.

Responsibilities

• Own project outcomes and manage time, cost and product trade‑offs using forecasts and risk assessments.
• Manage the Customer Success engineers; coordinate workload and ensure detailed customer discovery, requirements, testing and deployment outputs.
• Define scalable product expansion to capture value for global utilities; align workflows with external users and acceptance criteria.
• Lead GET partner relationships to secure data, workflow input, customer decisions and testing participation.
• Own GET customer readiness and acceptance outcomes; coordinate onboarding, integration and testing with Engineering and Delivery Lead.

Skills

Energy sector experience

Commercial leadership

Project leadership

Customer discovery

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Neara is building digital twins for electricity grids using machine learning to stress‑test infrastructure and accelerate energy transition. The Director, Grid Connections will lead integration and development of the Grid Connections capability, coordinating product, delivery and customer success teams across GET projects with Australian utilities and government engagement.

You will manage a Delivery Lead, drive data readiness, and champion a new software category that expands Neara and Zepben