Strategy & Growth Associate – Renewable Energy

Octopus Energy; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Options Scheme

Fully paid medical, dental and vision

Paid time off - 20 days vacation, 8.h

401(k) plan with employer match

Parental leave

Flexible working environment

Job summary

Octopus Energy is seeking a Strategy Associate to join the US strategy team in San Francisco, driving end-to-end strategic initiatives from opportunity sizing to building operating capabilities. You’ll work across the US energy landscape, pursuing M&A synergies and repeatable playbooks to scale impact in a fast-moving market.

You’ll partner with senior finance leaders, shape commercial and analytical foundations, and operate with autonomy in a role that combines corporate development with

Qualifications

• Real fluency in a spreadsheet; understand budgets, forecasts and business cases.
• Comfort owning outcomes with limited oversight.
• Commercial instinct for deals, integrations, and partnerships; track a synergy case from thesis through to the P&L.
• Enough technical curiosity to learn fast about state energy retail regulations and markets.
• Values-led: passionate about decarbonization and the US energy transition.
• A bias for action and high tolerance for ambiguity.
• Non-traditional backgrounds encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Own discrete strategic projects end to end: sizing the opportunity, building the case, getting the decision made, and then actually standing the thing up.
• Work across the US energy landscape as opportunities emerge (battery deployment, retail energy, utility programs) rather than in a single fixed lane.
• Realize value in M&A activity: integrating acquired businesses and building the synergies that unlock the next stage.
• Turn early-stage bets into repeatable operations: first deal, first site, first market, first customer cohort, then the playbook for scale.
• Partner with the OE US CFO on strategic finance and budgeting; build the plan, test numbers, align budgets with priorities.
• Build the commercial and analytical foundations; unit economics, market structure, counterparty landscape.
• Operate on intent: you’ll get the destination and the constraints, not a project plan.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Excel fluency

Deal intuition

Ambiguity tolerance

Decarbonization focus

Action-oriented

Non-traditional backgrounds encouraged

Tools

Excel

Job description

Octopus Energy is seeking a Strategy Associate to join the US strategy team in San Francisco, driving end-to-end strategic initiatives from opportunity sizing to building operating capabilities. You’ll work across the US energy landscape, pursuing M&A synergies and repeatable playbooks to scale impact in a fast-moving market.

You’ll partner with senior finance leaders, shape commercial and analytical foundations, and operate with autonomy in a role that combines corporate development with