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The Country Lead will drive the expansion of Odyssey’s new aggregated procurement platform to Ethiopia.

About Odyssey

Odyssey is the distributed infrastructure sector’s only end-to-end investment and asset management platform. Our technology suite provides the tools required to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale.

This year we launched our newest platform; an aggregated procurement platform for solar projects. The goal of the platform is to radically drive down the capital costs of solar equipment across Africa and other emerging markets by aggregating equipment orders across project developers, negotiating with suppliers based on higher volumes, and centralizing logistics operations.  After a successful launch in Nigeria, we are now looking to scale the platform globally. We already have the investment required for the scale-up phase; now we need the talent to build the business.

Who you are

You are an ambitious entrepreneur with deep experience in procurement in Ethiopia. You are excited by a fully-funded, start-up business ready to scale, and have the experience in Ethiopia for our successful rollout in the country. You are highly analytical, data-driven and process-oriented. No detail slips by you. You should have significant experience working in hardware procurement and logistics and feel comfortable making decisions independently. 

Duties

• Work closely with project developers to scope equipment needs and manage orders
• Running RFQ processes with suppliers to select products and vendors for procurement
• Identifying key partners on the ground, including third-party logistics providers
• Managing the end-to-end procurement, shipping and logistics processes for equipment orders in Ethiopia
• Identifying all relevant legal considerations to address in launching the platform in a new country; working with legal teams to manage compliance
• Managing the day-to-day interactions across all stakeholders

Skills/Qualifications

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 15+ years experience in sourcing & procurement for infrastructure projects
• Proven experience in procurement in Ethiopia; deep expertise in procurement, shipping, customs clearance, etc.
• Proven ability to lead projects independently

Job Location

Ethiopia

To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About this job

The Vice President will lead business development, customer success, strategy execution and scaling of Odyssey’s offerings for developers.

About Odyssey 

Odyssey is a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers and investors a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us. 

Odyssey’s platform provides an end-to-end solution for the entire lifecycle of project development. Developers can come on the platform to:

• plan their DRE projects using standardized planning tools; 
• seek financing for their projects from different types of capital providers e.g. grants, debt, guarantees
• procure equipment for their projects at lower landed cost using our aggregated procurement platform; and
• remotely and automatically manage their operating projects unlocking efficiencies and enabling scale  

The VP-Project Developers will be responsible for devising strategies to target, onboard, support and grow with developers.  We are looking for an entrepreneurial business leader who is motivated to build this exciting high potential business and establish herself as the trusted partner of developers in the sector.

Who You Are

You are an experienced business development executive from technology sales and service background who excels at sales strategy, stakeholder management, and execution.  You are excited by the entrepreneurial opportunity of shaping and building a business that draws on your functional expertise and where you can build upon an established platform.  You are a natural sale person and relationship-builder. You are a team builder who can inspire a team with your vision and support them to achieve success.  You are a go-getter with an ability to identify opportunities and build effective working relationships with anyone. You are a shaper who can turn ideas into plans and actions.  You are highly analytical, data-driven and process-oriented. No detail slips by you, and you run a tight ship to ensure your teams are executing to a high standard. You love work plans and vision documents. You shine in pitching to potential customers and seeing deals through to close.

Responsibilities

Your ultimate responsibility in this role is to drive rapid growth of new developer customers while ensuring excellent customer support and management of existing customers. 

Strategy

• Research and follow the market context to identify and refresh opportunity for Odyssey across business and geographic segments
• Develop and present GTM strategy, team structure and operating plans to stakeholders for approval
• Assume ownership for growing the franchise and business performance
• Craft and refine a compelling proposition for developers
• Identify tech and data platform features required to support and scale the business

Team Building

• Define roles and respective skills needed to deliver the plans
• Inspire talent to join, and perform to a high standard
• Mobilize and guide the team to focus on productive effort and achieve results
• Create and promote a performance and achievement oriented culture in the team 

Business Development

• Create materials, processes and routines to market our offering through appropriate channels 
• Devise plans and processes to cover developers in our chosen segments and to track ongoing progress 
• Establish the team as a group of trusted advisors and sector colleague, who partner with developers to solve their business needs through Odyssey platform
• Establish internal workflows and develop sales tools to optimise sales cycles and increase conversion in a solutions selling environment

Customer Success and Ongoing Relationship Management

• Configure and staff the customer success function to ensure hassle free implementation and onboarding, regular contact with developer clients for unblocking, relationship building and follow on business;  
• Establish internal workflows and develop support tools to optimise onboarding and follow on sales
• Manage internal interfaces with the Engineering Team

Stakeholder Management

• Ensure financiers have the benefit of ongoing investment monitoring on the platform
• Oversee and improve client (developers and financiers) experience on the platform
• As a trusted advisor to financers, help resolve gaps in monitoring

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher; MBA desirable
• Demonstrable success in scaling technology solutions businesses, experience of DRE desirable
• Demonstrable success in leading customer growth
• Demonstrable success in building an entrepreneurial business and teams
• Experience of working across multiple continents and cultures
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in French/ Spanish preferred, English mandatory

Job Location

Flexible; Europe and Africa preferred 

To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About this job

The Vice President will lead strategy, execution and scaling of Odyssey’s finance offerings for investors.

About Odyssey 

Odyssey is a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers and investors a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us.

As private capital into the distributed renewable energy sector grows, Odyssey is expanding its investor solutions to leverage its technology and traction to become THE platform for deploying capital into the sector. Odyssey offers solutions for the full lifecycle of investments, from origination to due diligence to portfolio management/monitoring. We will be expanding these offerings and setting up our investor platform as a new, separate business line. 

The VP – Investor Solutions role is the first and most senior person we are recruiting in this part of our business to expand Odyssey’s coverage of investors and delivery of solutions to them.  We are looking for an entrepreneurial finance expert who is motivated to build this exciting high potential business alongside the company’s Executive team. 

Who You Are

You are an experienced finance expert with a deep understanding of project finance (energy finance preferred). You are a business builder who excels at strategy, stakeholder management, and execution.  You are excited by the entrepreneurial opportunity of shaping and building a business that draws on your functional expertise and where you can build upon an established platform.  You are a team builder who can inspire a team with your vision and support them to achieve success.  You are a go-getter with an ability to identify opportunities and build effective working relationships with anyone. You are a hustler who closes deals. You are a shaper who can turn ideas into plans and actions.  You are highly analytical, data-driven and process-oriented. No detail slips by you, and you run a tight ship to ensure your teams are executing to a high standard. You love work plans and vision documents. You shine in running  meetings with key stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

Most importantly, this role will lead investor engagement to increase the funds flowing through the platform by engaging new investors, driving transactions via the platform, and developing new strategies to adapt the product to investors’ needs. 

Strategy and Planning

• Research and follow the market context to identify and refresh opportunity for Odyssey
• Develop and present strategy, team structure and operating plans to stakeholders for approval
• Assume ownership for growing the franchise and business performance
• Craft and refine a compelling proposition for investors (and reciprocally developers)
• Identify tech and data platform features required to support and scale the business

Team Building

• Define roles and respective skills needed to deliver the plans
• Inspire talent to join, and perform to a high standard
• Mobilize and guide the team to focus on productive effort and achieve results

Origination

• Refine and market our offering through appropriate channels 
• Target investors and sell them the opportunity to access hard-to-find off-market investment opportunity in the sector through Odyssey
• As a trusted advisor sector colleague, collaborate with developers to solve their financing needs through Odyssey platform

Execution and Transaction Support

• Understand specific needs of each financier and guide the team to construct portfolios accordingly;  
• Lead or facilitate pitches, beauty parades of portfolios to investors;
• Facilitate investors’ due diligence through the platform;
• Working through developers and investors’ own advisers, unblock any show stoppers in the transaction process, providing inputs along the way on structuring and terms as appropriate
• Conclude financing transactions between investors and developers

Ongoing relationship management

• Ensure investors have the benefit of ongoing investment monitoring on the platform
• Oversee and improve client experience on the platform
• As a trusted advisor to financers, help resolve gaps in monitoring

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance; MBA desirable
• Demonstrable success in facilitating financing transactions, particularly energy/infrastructure finance;
• Experience of working with a wide variety of investors, ready network of contacts desirable;
• Demonstrable success in building an entrepreneurial business and teams
• Proven ability to lead projects independently; have had full P&L management of business units 
• Experience of working across multiple continents and cultures
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in French/ Spanish preferred, English mandatory

Job Location

Flexible, but London or New York preferred due to proximity to customers

To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About this job

Odyssey is a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers and investors a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us.

We are looking for a senior, innovative UI/UX designer to lead the design of the next generation of our Product! We run a multi-stakeholder platform that requires critical thinking about how different users interact via our platform. We’re looking at someone who excels in thinking through complex user experience workflows, and is great with data visualization as well. 

This is likely a 3-4 month contract engagement to re-design a big chunk of our UI. Opportunity to stay on if needed!

To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About this job

We are looking for an MBA intern to support strategic projects related to new markets assessment and product development. 

Odyssey a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us. 

We are looking for an MBA intern this summer to support the company on strategic projects that will directly inform our growth strategy. This teammate will assess opportunities to expand our business in Latin America, SE Asia and other new markets. In addition, this role would help identify and prioritize new product features required for our market expansion. 

Having been MBA interns ourselves, we can guarantee that this is a truly awesome opportunity for actual hands-on work at an exciting, well-funded and impactful start up. 

Location: Flexible 

To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About this job

Odyssey is a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers and investors a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us.

We are looking for a full-stack (preferable) or front-end software engineer to join our team. We’re launching a version 2.0 of our platform with lots of exciting work to be done on the front-end to level up our user exerience and user interface. Must be comfortable with Angular. 

To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About this job

The Data Science Lead will be responsible for developing and delivering cutting edge data products  to our clients.

About Odyssey 

Odyssey is a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers and investors a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us.

The Data Science Lead will be responsible for our Data team, delivering cutting-edge energy analytics and technologies for the distributed renewable energy sector – including live monitoring of distributed energy system, advanced analytics for optimal project performance, insightful analyses for investment decisions, etc. This role will work closely with the company’s Chief Technology Officer. 

Who You Are

You are a data science whiz who loves getting your hands dirty in data analysis while building out effective teams to level up data capabilities within an organization. You are creative, versatile in data technologies, and a quick learner. You love collaborating with other data analysts to get the job done. You are excited by the opportunity to play a role in making important data decisions within our product. You are obsessed with delivering high quality work and 100% reliable data. You are a self-starter and a hustler – you get the job done.

Responsibilities

• Developing new data solutions to meet the needs of our clients, who are relying on real-time, high-frequency data to make key business decisions;
• Building up our data science team and coaching data team members to level up;
• Ensuring reliable, timely, and intuitive data products to our customers;
• Working and advancing our proprietary big data analytics platform to generate analyses from live data feeds across disparate sources;
• Supporting the ingestion and transformation of data to generate clean, workable data sets for our customers;
• Develop scripts to process data as required for analyses;
• Developing and implementing best practice systems for maintaining the integrity and quality of the data in our platform.

 Skills/Qualifications

• Masters degree preferred in data science or similar
• 5+ years in a professional role in data science/analytics
• 3+ years in team management
• Significant experience with data analysis frameworks and analytics tools such as Python, R or Matlab
• Ability to manage and query large datasets using SQL; significant experience with non-relational (NoSQL) databases
• Attention to detail, and an ability to adapt to new approaches
• Experience with machine learning a plus
• Coursework in energy/electrical engineering a plus
• Excellent communication skills in English

Job Location

Flexible, but US East Coast or European time zones preferred

To Apply 

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].

About Odyssey 

Odyssey is a venture-backed climate tech company transforming distributed energy globally. We are the only end-to-end investment and asset management platform for distributed energy, offering project developers and investors a business-in-a-box solution to finance, build and operate distributed energy projects at scale across the globe. We’re facilitating more than $1B of finance into the sector, have unparalleled market traction, and blue chip investors behind us.

As private capital into the distributed renewable energy sector grows, Odyssey is expanding its investor solutions to leverage its technology and traction to become THE platform for deploying capital into the sector. Odyssey offers solutions for the full lifecycle of investments, from origination to due diligence to portfolio management/monitoring. We will be expanding these offerings and setting up our investor platform as a new, separate business line. 

The Investment Associate will help expand Odyssey’s base of investor clients and assist those clients through the entire transaction lifecycle (i.e. pipeline management, due diligence and investment monitoring) through the Odyssey platform.  The role will report to VP, Investor Solutions but will coordinate closely with Data and Operations teams to ensure high quality service delivery to the clients. 

Who You Are

You are a finance professional with experience of having facilitated transactions as a corporate finance/ transaction services adviser.  You are a self-starter who enjoys collaborating with clients in transaction settings.  You have a knack of identifying opportunities and build effective working relationships with clients. You are a hustler who closes deals. You are highly analytical, data-driven and process-oriented. You bring strong presentation skills and can run meetings independently and effectively with key stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

Most importantly, this role will lead investor engagement to increase the funds flowing through the platform by engaging new investors, driving transactions via the platform. 

Origination and Business Development

• Assist VP Investor Solutions in targeting investors and sell them the opportunity to access hard-to-find off-market investment opportunity in the sector through Odyssey
• Prepare and present high quality pitch documents 

Execution and Transaction Support

• Understand specific needs of each financier and identify portfolios for their pipeline accordingly;  
• Lead or facilitate pitches, beauty parades of portfolios to investor clients;
• Facilitate investors’ screening and due diligence through the platform;
• Provide inputs to developers to make their investment proposals compelling and fitting with investors’ critieria;
• Provide inputs to investor and developer clients on structuring and terms as appropriate
• Conclude financing transactions between investors and developers

Ongoing relationship management

• Act as a first point of contact for a portfolio of investor clients
• Ensure investors have the benefit of ongoing investment monitoring on the platform
• Oversee and improve client experience on the platform
• As a trusted advisor to financers, help resolve gaps in monitoring

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance; 
• 3-5 years’ experience in Transaction Services/ Investment Banking
• Experience of facilitating financing transactions, particularly energy/infrastructure finance;
• Proven ability to lead projects independently; 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in French/ Spanish preferred, English mandatory

Job Location

Flexible, but London or New York preferred due to proximity to investor clients

 To Apply

Please send your one-page resume to [email protected].