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About Joulen Joulen is the software layer for GB energy flexibility, built in Belfast, built to matter globally. Our platform forecasts energy needs and market value, decides the optimal path, and controls assets to deliver it, maximising returns for residential, commercial and grid-scale customers. We are early-stage, ambitious, and intentional about how we build, not just the product, but the company itself. Joulen runs on six operating principles, Customer Centricity, Talent Density, Move with Urgency, Radical Candour, Disagree & Commit, and Owner-Operators, set out in our internal Culture Deck. This is a company that designs its culture as deliberately as it designs its product, and this role exists to make sure the people function lives up to that standard. The Role This is Joulen's first dedicated Talent & Reward hire. You will build the function from the ground up, designing how we attract, hire, pay and retain talent dense enough to outperform companies many times our size. You'll report to the COO, work closely with the CEO and leadership team, and have direct influence over the people decisions that determine whether Joulen scales the way we intend it to. You will own two connected disciplines: Talent (how we find, assess and hire owner-operators who raise the bar) and Reward (how we pay top-of-market, and keep compensation honest as we scale). At this stage, you will be hands-on, there is no team yet to delegate to, while also setting the systems, policy and partner relationships that a function will eventually grow around. Key Responsibilities Talent Build and run end-to-end hiring for Joulen, from role definition through to offer, applying the Keeper Test to every hire so each one genuinely raises the bar, not just fills a seat. Design a hiring process that screens for both capability and cultural fit against the six operating principles, working closely with hiring managers across product, engineering and commercial teams. Own the candidate experience and employer brand, including how Joulen's culture and ambition come across to people outside the company. Design and continuously improve onboarding, working with the COO and leadership to ensure every new joiner gets full context from week one, including ownership of how new hires are prepared for and integrated with The Joulen Bootcamp. Build workforce planning into the company's growth trajectory, advising leadership on org design, hiring sequencing and capacity ahead of need. Reward Design and own Joulen's compensation philosophy and structure. Design and manage the benefits offering, balancing cost discipline with a genuinely competitive package for an early-stage company. Run pay review and promotion cycles with rigour and consistency, and ensure decisions are defensible, fair and well documented. Keep Joulen's reward practices compliant with UK/NI employment law and good practice as the company scales toward IPO. Building the Function Establish the policies, systems (ATS, HRIS) and processes a Talent & Reward function needs, choosing tools that fit a fast-moving company of our size today, with room to scale. Act as a trusted adviser to the COO and leadership team on people strategy, organisational design and culture, including stewardship of the Culture Deck itself as the company grows. Build the business case and, over time, the team, this role is expected to grow into a small Talent & Reward function as headcount scales. What We're Looking For Proven experience owning talent acquisition and/or reward, ideally both, in a high-growth or scale-up environment, you've built something like this before or built significant parts of it. Direct experience designing compensation and equity frameworks from scratch, including comfort with share option schemes (e.g. EMI) in a UK context. A track record of hiring high-performing teams, not just filling roles, but genuinely raising the bar with every hire. Comfortable operating without a playbook: this is a build-it-yourself role in a company that designs its own systems rather than copying templates off the shelf. Someone who reads our six operating principles and recognises themselves in them, in particular Talent Density and Radical Candour, since you will be both the architect and the protector of the bar. Strong knowledge of UK employment law; Northern Ireland-specific experience is an advantage but not essential. Comfortable with ambiguity and speed, you'll be designing process while also running it, often in parallel. What Joulen Gives You Joulen's culture is built on a two-way bargain, the Charter. In return for the bar we set, you can expect: Context, not control, the full picture and the freedom to act on it. Top-of-market pay, and a direct hand in making sure that's true for everyone else too. Candour both ways, direct feedback, and leaders who take challenge as well as they give it. Air cover for speed, when you execute and it's imperfect, we protect the bias for action. Real recovery, flexibility and protected downtime in return for the big pushes. A genuine seat at the table: you will help author the people side of a company built to scale from Belfast to a global IPO. Location & Logistics Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, hybrid working, with regular in-person time expected given the foundational, relationship-heavy nature of this role. Full-time, reporting to the COO, with close working relationships across the leadership team. TLNT1_NI

📈 Who We Are: We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. Our goal is to put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers and to take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity. tem exists to fix a broken global energy market that’s long favoured legacy operators, intermediaries, and opaque pricing. Today’s electricity system was not designed for rapid decarbonisation, AI-driven efficiency or fair access for the actual users - businesses and generators. We’ve built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced. Our technology is designed to cut out the inefficient fees, automate complex market flows, and bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale. In late 2025, after extraordinary growth, we closed a $75 million Series B - led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Albion, Atomico, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital and others - positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership. We’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide. Since launch, our modern utility product, known as RED, has already facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value, proving that modern software and AI can transform an industry built on legacy systems. At tem, we’re not just building another energy company, we’re rearchitecting market infrastructure so that transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception. 🏅 The Role We're hiring a Baseload Originator. Your job is to deliver consistent, high-quality generator deals that expand baseload-shaped supply, deepen liquidity and pricing, and strengthen tem's credibility with asset owners and developers. You'll grow our generator base across core tech types (anaerobic digestion, landfill gas, and energy from waste), owning relationships end-to-end to improve deal velocity and reduce friction across commercials and onboarding. You'll act as a trusted commercial counterpart to developers and asset owners, feed structured sell-side insight back into pricing and product, and represent tem credibly in the broader generator ecosystem. 🚀 Responsibilities Run and close generator deals from first signal to signature, shaping commercials, negotiating Heads of Terms, and landing contracts at pace. Grow tem’s presence with developers, IPPs and aggregators through targeted outreach and disciplined, data-led pipeline management. Build a diversified portfolio across core tech types, regions, counterparties and tenors to increase liquidity, resilience and pricing depth. Track asset changes, deal activity and generator preferences; turn insight into clear offers and next actions. Own commercial diligence and deal hygiene so handoffs are clean, including key asset data, route-to-market inputs, and internal alignment/ Work with Legal, Ops and Product to remove onboarding friction and ensure clean handoffs to delivery. Feed structured sell-side signals into pricing, product and strategy to sharpen our proposition and stay ahead of competitors. 🎯 Requirements Experience in energy, climate tech or B2B sales in complex, multi-stakeholder deals with renewable generators, developers or asset managers. Proven ability to source, structure and close new generator deals. Strong grasp of generator commercial drivers (price, risk, term, route-to-market) with credible value positioning. Experience with PPAs, flexible products or structured energy deals; able to coordinate with Trading and Legal. Excellent communicator who collaborates across teams to smooth generator onboarding. Proactive, collaborative problem-solver with a bias to action and results. Comfortable using data tooling and automation to manage pipeline, pricing inputs and outreach at scale. Passion for sustainability and clean energy. ✅ Success measures 50+ generator opportunities originated and qualified, with 10–15 contracts signed or near-term closing. ≥ 1 TWh of generation under management or in late-stage pipeline across one or more asset classes. Visible, well-documented network of developer and asset-owner relationships with active comms and deal calendars. Structured feedback that shortens onboarding timelines and sharpens the generator proposition. ✨ Benefits & Perks Salary aligned to internal benchmarks and reviewed twice a year. Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission. 25 days holiday plus public holidays. Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you, and enjoy your birthday off. Remote first and flexible working, with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons. Home working and wellbeing budgets: Up to £1,200 or €1,200 per year for your remote setup. Up to £150 or €150 per month for wellbeing. 🗣️ Interview Process We move fast. Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer. If you need us to adapt anything, let us know. Intro call with Talent, 30 minutes. Hiring Manager interview, 45 minutes. Skills interview with Commercial and cross-functional leaders, 60 to 90 minutes, including a practical exercise. Culture Add interview with leadership stakeholders, 45 minutes. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.