Associate, Energy Demand - Research & Innovation

Energy Impact Partners; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Annual bonus

Potential equity participation

Job summary

Energy Impact Partners based in Atlanta is seeking an Associate for its Research & Innovation group. The successful candidate will work on energy demand topics like AI infrastructure and utility operations, supporting corporate partners and portfolio companies.

Key responsibilities involve conducting market analysis, developing insights, and engaging with strategic partners. Ideal applicants will have a degree, two years of relevant experience, and strong analytical skills.

This role offers a comprehensive benefits package including salary, bonus, and equity potential.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in market analysis, management consulting, corporate strategy, or investment banking.
• Proficient understanding of the utility industry and its challenges.
• Prior experience in energy or climate tech sector is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support market analysis and synthesize diverse industry research.
• Develop market landscapes for target companies.
• Collaborate with investment teams on deal opportunities.

Skills

Market analysis

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Detail orientation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

CoPilot/AI tools

Job description

Founded in 2015, EIP is a global investment firm with more than $4.5 billion in assets under management. Since its founding, EIP has focused on leading the transition to a sustainable future by bringing together the world's most forward‑looking energy, critical infrastructure, technology and industrial companies and the best‑of‑breed businesses that serve them. Our team has built deep domain experience investing globally in over 100 companies across venture, growth, private equity and credit.

We’re seeking an Associate to join our Research & Innovation group: the team at EIP responsible for the strategic platform bridging EIP’s investment teams, corporate partners, and portfolio companies. This position will focus on energy demand, covering topics such as: AI infrastructure and data centers, real estate decarbonization, and utility customer solutions and operations. Within those domains, this role will support in the development of deep market insight and apply that insight to: A) help our corporate partners drive meaningful innovation in their business; B) accelerate commercialization for our portfolio companies, and C) support our investment deal flow.

This is an opportunity to work at the nexus of technology innovators and established energy incumbents to accelerate change in our industry. We’re looking for an insatiably curious, analytically minded market researcher, who’s able to manage multiple workstreams and draw insights across an ecosystem spanning technical founders, startup commercial leaders, corporate innovation leads, and corporate finance professionals.

This position will be based in person at our Atlanta office.

Key Areas Of Responsibility

• Support market analysis on a wide variety of topics – synthesizing industry research and data from diverse sources to generate insight that’s simply unavailable anywhere else
• Develop market landscapes for investable target companies
• Identify the transformational impact that emerging technology might have on our strategic partners’ businesses
• Perform fundamental modelling of technology and market pathways to adoption

Engage our strategic partners

• Support and lead working groups of subject matter experts and operational leaders from our strategic partner consortium
• Work hand in hand with partners on building business cases and deployment pathways for transformational technology
• Support corporate venture capital teams on investment opportunities in EIP portfolio companies and deal flow

Establish thought leadership

• Present and publish unique insights to share EIP’s views both within and outside of our immediate ecosystem
• Develop credibility as a trusted internal advisor on key trends and markets.

Create value for EIP investment strategy & portfolio

• Collaborate with our investment teams to source deal opportunities and build conviction in investment decisions
• Share actionable insight with our portfolio on market dynamics & opportunities
• Support portfolio companies by advising on product development roadmaps & go‑to‑market strategy

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in market analysis; management consulting; corporate strategy; investment banking, or other relevant fields
• Proficient level of understanding of the utility industry and challenges facing both energy suppliers and customers, such as power capacity bottlenecks, lengthy timelines to power for large loads, and rising electricity rates for residential and commercial customers
• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering field preferred (finance, electrical engineering, management, economics, mechanical engineering)
• Prior experience, or demonstrated interest in, the energy or climate tech sector
• Excellent analytical skills and capability to assess complex business cases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to juggle multiple competing priorities in fast paced environment with limited oversight
• Strong detail orientation and commitment to accuracy
• An independent mindset and intellectual curiosity
• A proven track record of working effectively on a team and being a good teammate
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, CoPilot/AI tools, and PowerPoint

Benefits

This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and compelling compensation including base salary, annual bonus and potential participation in equity programs.