gridX connects and controls energy generation and storage systems to form a decentral, virtual power plant. gridX is revolutionizing traditional energy supply with a fully integrated and vendor-neutral solution, bringing millions of small producers and consumers together on the gridX platform. With the gridBox, generation plants can be intelligently controlled, all energy flows in the household can be displayed and existing Smart Home solutions can be integrated on their platform.  gridX was founded in May 2016 by David Balensiefen and Andreas Booke. The team around gridX consists of talents and experienced specialists from leading companies such as Google, McKinsey and universities such as MIT, Harvard and RWTH Aachen University.


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gridX connects and controls energy generation and storage systems to form a decentral, virtual power plant. gridX is revolutionizing traditional energy supply with a fully integrated and vendor-neutral solution, bringing millions of small producers and consumers together on the gridX platform. With the gridBox, generation plants can be intelligently controlled, all energy flows in the household can be displayed and existing Smart Home solutions can be integrated on their platform.  gridX was founded in May 2016 by David Balensiefen and Andreas Booke. The team around gridX consists of talents and experienced specialists from leading companies such as Google, McKinsey and universities such as MIT, Harvard and RWTH Aachen University.

Procurement Manager:in (all genders)

How you can contribute to gridX Be a Market Pioneer: You take ownership of a new customer segment, including market analysis, value proposition development and sales execution based on gridX's product portfolio; and use your learnings to build a scalable sales process for the specific segmentsFull Sales Cycle Ownership: You develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy for your assigned customer segment, covering all stages from lead generation and qualification to successful deal closureNavigate Complex Sales: You excel at identifying key decision-makers within complex organizations and guiding them through the sales process, even in uncharted territoryAchieve Tangible Results: You are a trailblazer, generating tangible results and establishing a strong foundation for success within a new market verticalCollaboration &amp; Knowledge Sharing: You contribute to the ongoing refinement of gridX's sales processes and methodologies, sharing best practices and insights with the Growth teamIndustry Expertise: You stay up to date of industry trends and competitive dynamics, proactively adapting your strategies to maintain a competitive edge This is how you and your application stand out <ul><li>You have at least 3-5 years of experience in the energy or green tech sector with a proven track record in business development, venture building or a similar role requiring a strong analytical &amp; commercial skillset and strategic execution</li><li>You have an exploratory mindset and can manage internal expectations &amp; goals at the same time</li><li>You're a results-oriented executor who thrives on testing ideas in the market quickly and adapting strategies to meet specific customer needs</li><li>You are able to perform in a new environment without predefined end2end processes and structures </li><li>You navigate complex situations with ease, effectively managing internal and external dependencies through exceptional organizational skills and a solution-oriented mindset</li><li>You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in German and English</li><li>You have a deep understanding of the renewable energy landscape, including current technologies, market trends, and challenges</li></ul> Why gridX <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Flexible &amp; mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU and other selected countries such as Indonesia, Canada, Brazil and many more</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Health: Make use of our (mental) health management offers such as Nilo.health (e.g. 1:1 coaching sessions, daily meditation offers, Self-reflection options) for your mental-wellbeing</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Personal development: Annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Set up a pension plan and receive a fair monthly contribution</li><li style="text-align:justify;">City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice (Apple or Lenovo)</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable off-site, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories!</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event</li><li style="text-align:justify;">We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Sabbatical option: Take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education (depends on length of employment)</li></ul>

Senior Account Executive (all genders)

How you can contribute to gridX Strategic Growth Driver: You're responsible for fostering and expanding relationships with our most strategic accounts, identifying and pursuing opportunities for significant revenue growth and deepening engagementRelationship Maestro: You cultivate and manage relationships with key stakeholders at all levels within strategic accounts, ensuring alignment and a shared vision for the futureAccount Strategist: You develop and execute comprehensive account strategies that maximize the value of these key relationships, outlining a clear roadmap for growth and mutual successOpportunity Hunter: You proactively identify and pursue new business opportunities within existing strategic accounts, expanding gridX's footprint and impactValue Creator: You champion the value of gridX's solutions, ensuring that strategic accounts fully leverage our offerings to achieve their business objectivesTrusted Advisor: You act as a trusted advisor to strategic accounts, providing expert guidance and support to navigate complex challenges and capitalize on emerging opportunitiesCollaboration Catalyst: You work closely with internal teams (e.g., product, engineering, customer success) to ensure seamless execution of account strategies and deliver exceptional customer experiences This is how you and your application stand out <ul><li>You have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a dynamic, customer-facing role with a proven track record where you were directly responsible for driving revenue within the energy industry or at a high-growth SaaS company</li><li>You have a strong strategic mindset and in combination with your deep knowledge of energy market trends you are able to steer the business relation towards new directions</li><li>You effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams (eg Product, Solution Engineering, Customer Success or Growth Services) to ensure seamless execution of the account plans</li><li>You can evaluate and (de-)prioritize opportunities based on key performance indicators of a successful partnership</li><li>You possess a strategic mindset and the ability to translate business objectives into actionable plans, making sound decisions to drive our customers success and desired outcomes</li><li>You are experienced in solution-selling methodologies, with a focus on understanding customer needs and aligning gridX's solutions to achieve their business objectives</li><li>You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences as well as strong presentation skills for conveying account strategies and value propositions</li></ul> Why gridX <ul><li>Flexible &amp; mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU and other selected countries such as Indonesia, Canada, Brazil and many more</li><li>Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation</li><li>Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass</li><li>Health: Make use of our (mental) health management offers such as Nilo.health (e.g. 1:1 coaching sessions, daily meditation offers, Self-reflection options) for your mental-wellbeing</li><li>Personal development: Annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee</li><li>Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits</li><li>Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer</li><li>Set up a pension plan and receive a fair monthly contribution</li><li>City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket</li><li>Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice (Apple or Lenovo)</li><li>Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable off-site, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories!</li><li>Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event</li><li>We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday</li><li>Sabbatical option: Take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education (depends on length of employment)</li></ul>

Strategic Account Manager (all genders)

How you can contribute to gridX Do stuff that matters - Become a part of gridX and contribute your own part to digitalise the energy industry with us and thus make renewable energies accessible and affordable everywhere  #getshitdoneAs a cloud infrastructure team, we create the basis for success and ensure scalability - from its production to our own deployment system, which enables us to develop new applications in the shortest possible time and roll them out to our customers. Our tools, most of which were developed in Go, make everyday life easier for other internal teams working with gridBox. <ul><li>You are responsible for our critical cloud infrastructure and manage it as code</li><li>You want to take responsibility and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure of gridX</li><li>You identify potential problems or bottlenecks in advance and contribute your own ideas to make our service platform more resilient and reliable</li><li>You understand the value of a "service ownership" culture</li><li>You will support or mentor our developers in reliably running their services in production by helping them deploy their applications and interact with various cloud services</li><li>You take care of our internal monitoring for our applications and infrastructure and guide our developers in setting up their own dashboards and alerts</li><li>You manage core tools to support and accelerate our development, e.g. CI/CD, Docker Base Images</li><li>You enforce Cloud Native best practices across the company</li><li>You document everything and maintain our runbooks</li></ul> This is how you and your application stand out <ul><li>You have a strong awareness and experience of working with the principles of site reliability engineering</li><li>You know how to achieve high availability, scalability and fault tolerance for distributed software in production</li><li>You have experience with Kubernetes and know how to reliably run even larger clusters</li><li>You are experienced on a senior level in using IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, CDKs; we mainly use Terraform</li><li>You have a deep understanding of cloud offerings like AWS. Specifically AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, SNS, IAM, RDS</li><li>You have proactive security in mind and follow best practices and official benchmarks</li><li>You know what Scratch or Distroless containers are about and why they should be used in production</li><li style="font-weight:bold;">You have at least 5+ years of experience in at least one modern programming language like (e.g. Go, Python, Java; we mainly use Go)</li><li>You know how to increase transparency, optimize dashboards and define alerts by using monitoring solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana</li></ul> Why gridX <ul><li>Flexible &amp; mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU</li><li>Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation + 0.5 days Special Leave at the end of the year for the 24th and 31st of December each</li><li>Health &amp; Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass as well as offers for company health management &amp; (Mental) Health Care</li><li>Personal development: cross-functional coaching, access to e-learning platforms &amp; an annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee</li><li>Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits</li><li>Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer</li><li>Receive a fair monthly contribution to your company pension plan</li><li>City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket</li><li>Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice</li><li>Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable teamweek, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories!</li><li>Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event</li><li style="font-weight:bold;">We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday</li><li>Sabbatical option: take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education</li></ul>*Our benefits differ for 100% remote employment!

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (all genders)

How you can contribute to gridX <div style="text-align:justify;">Join our dynamic Finance team as we embark on a mission to revolutionize the energy market!  We’re looking for a highly motivated working student to join our Financial Steering team. This position offers an exceptional opportunity to gain a holistic overview of finance operations and sharpen your expertise in the professional world alongside very skilled and passionate team. You’ll be part of a highly motivated, supportive, and fun team where collaboration and creativity thrive. If you're eager to contribute and grow in a vibrant atmosphere, then apply now!  Join us, and let’s get shit done! #MakeYourMark</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><div style="text-align:justify;">The position is available from January 2025.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><ul><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Comprehensive overview of finance: You’ll get hands-on experience across the entire finance spectrum, from accounting to controlling and budgeting, ensuring you learn every aspect of the department.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Collaboration with key stakeholders: Work closely with our accounting and finance management teams, to support the preparation of monthly financial statements and management reports.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Contribution to controlling development: Assist in the development of sales, production, and human resources controlling in close cooperation with the respective teams.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Supporting financial forecasting: Take on a supportive role in preparing long-term budgets, as well as medium- and short-term operational forecasts.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Assisting with stakeholder inquiries: Help address regular and ad-hoc inquiries from both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring smooth communication and support.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Driving process optimization: Help improve our finance, planning, and controlling processes while contributing to the automation and optimization of these workflows. #YouDriveAutomation</div></li></ul> This is how you and your application stand out <ul><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Academic background: Basic finance and accounting knowledge, currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's study such as in finance, accounting, financial engineering, business analytics, or a related field. You are still enrolled as a student for at least one year.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Practical experience: You have some initial experience in financial accounting (HGB/IFRS) or management accounting (reporting and budgeting), either through studies, projects or work experience. While not a requirement, experience from a Big Four is valued.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Data analysis skills: Familiarity with Big Data analysis tools (e.g. Power BI) is a plus but not mandatory.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Tech proficiency: You are comfortable using the MS Office suite (particularly Excel and PowerPoint) such as Google products.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Key strengths: You’re an absolute team player with a GetShitDone mentality, enjoying cross-team collaboration. Furthermore you stand out for your analytical thinking, strong communication skills, and keen attention to detail.</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Language skills: Fluency in English is essential, while German is a plus.</div></li></ul> Why gridX <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Personal development: Annual development budget of 300 Euros per employee</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich </li><li style="text-align:justify;">Experience the gridX culture at the annual team week, regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event</li><li style="text-align:justify;">We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday</li></ul><div style="text-align:justify;">If you want to take up the challenge, please send us your complete and detailed application and accompany us on our mission to disrupt the energy sector!</div>

Working Student Financial Steering (all genders)

How you can contribute to gridX <div style="text-align:justify;">Do stuff that matters - Become part of our product team and shape the digital future of the energy sector together with our app developers! You will develop the interface for end customers in our app and ensure that commissioning and use is child's play. Contribute your ideas and share your experience with the team!</div> <div style="text-align:justify;">Full-time or part-time? The choice is yours! </div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><ul><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You take responsibility for the vision, roadmap and success of our end-customer app</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You develop a long-term strategy for the app and translate features into product development</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You work closely with the development and UX team and decide on prioritisation in the context of product development</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You analyse the success of the app for gridX and its user groups with the support of internal teams</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You discuss recommendations with the Head of Product and the C-Level</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You support the sales and marketing teams with all relevant content to ensure a smooth launch of new products</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You pass on your knowledge and experience in product management in various formats (e.g. workshops or 1on1s)</div></li></ul> This is how you and your application stand out <ul><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You have already gained several years of extensive experience as a product manager in the fields of energy, app development or IoT in an agile environment</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You have a keen interest and strong ambition to drive the energy transition forward and are enthusiastic about innovative solutions and topics</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You are goal-oriented and can empathise well with the challenges and wishes of customers</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">You have strong communication, organisational and interpersonal skills</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">An independent, analytical and pragmatic way of working without losing sight of the big picture is a matter of course for you</div></li><li><div style="text-align:justify;">Very good English skills round off your profile</div></li></ul> Why gridX <ul><li>Flexible &amp; mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU and other selected countries such as Indonesia, Canada, Brazil and many more</li><li>Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation</li><li>Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass</li><li>Health: Make use of our (mental) health management offers such as Nilo.health (e.g. 1:1 coaching sessions, daily meditation offers, Self-reflection options) for your mental-wellbeing</li><li>Personal development: Annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee</li><li>Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits</li><li>Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer</li><li>Set up a pension plan and receive a fair monthly contribution</li><li>City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket</li><li>Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice (Apple or Lenovo)</li><li>Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable off-site, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories!</li><li>Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event</li><li>We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Sabbatical option: Take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education (depends on length of employment)</li></ul>

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