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title: 'Advisor — Utility Strategy (part-time) at Comity'
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# Advisor — Utility Strategy (part-time) at Comity

- **Company:** Comity
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** part-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comity/372af4f8-6ca1-42a2-8147-7b825c47de6f

## Job description

🎯 Why we exist We’re on a mission to improve the reliability, transparency, and efficiency of our energy systems, fostering a future with sustainable and abundant energy. To accomplish our aims, we’re leveraging state of the art statistical learning and convex optimization methods (AI) to build the financial trust layer for the electric age. We envision energy systems that are efficient, autonomous, resilient, and electrified.

🧗 Who we are We are an energy-obsessed, talented, and hard working entrepreneurial team. We are rooted in the spirit of the first mass electrification, when substations and transmission lines lit up America's cities fueling an era of unprecedented growth. Today, we are helping power the next wave of American ingenuity through a more resilient and affordable energy system. Our founders (ex-Apple, Bluevine; ex-Affirm, Square, Google) are Stanford alumni who have scaled multi-billion-dollar underwriting platforms from scratch. We bring expertise in energy, complex systems, computational science, and structured finance. Our world-class investors, [Maverick Ventures](https://www.maverickventures.com/) and [Caffeinated Capital](https://caffeinatedcapital.com/), are aligned to our policy objectives and platform vision.

## The Role

Comity is looking for a part-time Advisor for our Utility Strategy to guide the design and positioning of our credit management solutions for maximum adoption by electric utilities. This is an advisory role for a seasoned former executive who has firsthand experience managing credit risk, liquidity, and collateral structures at a utility with significant renewable energy exposure. You’ll help us bridge the gap between product innovation and utility acceptance: bringing insider knowledge of how utilities evaluate counterparties, what matters in collateral instruments, and how credit decisions are actually made. You’ll play a pivotal role in making sure our products and services speak the language of utilities, clear internal hurdles, and are positioned to become a trusted alternative to traditional credit management practices. In this role, you will:

- Advise on design: shape the structure and features of our collateral product so it aligns with utility credit standards and practical requirements.
- Guide utility engagement: identify the right stakeholders and decision-makers within utilities and advise how best to approach them.
- Stress-test acceptance: anticipate potential objections, explain what utilities really care about, and help us refine messaging to maximize credibility.
- Leverage your network: open doors to relevant contacts across utilities and industry associations to accelerate education and adoption.
- Be a sounding board: provide ongoing perspective on how utilities perceive credit risk, collateral, and counterparties in today’s power markets.

We’re excited about you because

- You’ve been in the seat: you were a treasurer, CFO, or senior credit/risk executive at a major electric utility, with direct responsibility for managing credit exposure to counterparties and overseeing collateral instruments.
- Deep network: you maintain strong relationships across the utility sector, including with credit, treasury, and risk decision-makers.
- Utility mindset: you know how utilities think about credit risk, liquidity, and collateral — both formally (policies, rating agency perspectives) and informally (what actually sways internal committees).
- Renewable exposure: bonus if you managed or oversaw a portfolio of renewable PPAs and/or owned renewable generation assets, giving you firsthand perspective on clean energy credit dynamics.
- Practical and strategic: you can translate your experience into concrete recommendations that make our product not just conceptually sound, but operationally adoptable by utilities.
- Trusted presence: you bring the credibility of a career in utility leadership and can help us navigate conversations at the highest levels.

Location This role is fully remote.

At Comity, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Our priority is to ensure that all applicants are provided with fair and equal access to employment opportunities. Recruiting and hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other class protected by law.

## About Comity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Comity uses computational science and AI to redefine counterparty credit risk management for energy forward contracts, reducing grid volatility and lowering energy costs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage/startup, backed by institutional investors)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Gerad Hanono (CEO, Co-founder), Alex Favaro (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Energy Financial Services, Commodity Finance, Power Markets, AI-driven Risk Management
- Target customers: Energy producers (generators) and energy users (utilities, industrial consumers) who transact in wholesale electricity forward contracts.
- Mission or purpose statement: “Improve the reliability, transparency, and efficiency of our energy systems, fostering a future with sustainable and abundant energy” — they aim to create “more energy from every invested dollar.”

## Products & Services
- **Comity Clearing Platform**: A technology-driven clearing and counterparty risk management solution for forward contracts in electricity and power-derived commodities. Uses AI and computational science to price and manage credit risk, replacing inefficient traditional collateral requirements. This unlocks capital that is currently tied up as risk buffers, making energy transactions cheaper and more capital-efficient for both producers and consumers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding (private, not disclosed). The company is backed by an undisclosed set of institutional investors cited as “leading institutions” where the team previously worked (e.g., names of top banks and energy firms implied in their talent pool).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by institutional investors (specific names not publicly disclosed on website or LinkedIn). Talent sources include Equilibrium Energy, Pagaya, Bluevine, TotalEnergies, Wayfair, and major financial institutions.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 27.6% YoY to 16 employees (as of mid-2025). LinkedIn followers grew 47.9% annually. Active job postings increased 225% year-over-year (13 open roles). The company has expanded beyond its New York HQ to include offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Kingdom.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Team brings combined experience from power markets, commodity finance, AI, credit, and capital markets — a rare blend of domain and technical talent.
- **State-of-the-art technology**: Uses advanced computational science and artificial intelligence to solve a very specific, high-value problem in the energy market that traditional financial infrastructure hasn’t modernized.
- **Clear problem-solution fit**: Targets the inefficiency of counterparty risk constraints in electricity markets (a huge and costly problem due to limited storage and volatile spot prices). By reducing this friction, they directly lower system-wide energy costs.
- **Mission-driven focus**: Ties its product to enabling the energy transition and scaling technological breakthroughs by making energy more affordable.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the clearing network**: Growing the number of energy producers and users on the platform to increase liquidity and network effects.
- **Product expansion**: Developing new risk products — implied by job postings for roles like “Quantitative Researcher for Congestion Revenue Rights” (a specific energy derivatives product) and “Surety Director” (insurance/bond expertise).
- **Geographic and talent expansion**: Actively hiring across New York, Chicago, Bay Area, and multiple other US locations, while maintaining a presence in Europe (UK, Bosnia).
- **Building for the energy transition**: Positioning itself as the financial infrastructure to support the growth of renewable energy and grid modernization.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact mission**: Directly contribute to making energy more affordable and reliable, enabling the electrification of the economy and the renewable energy transition.
- **Cutting-edge technical work**: Work at the intersection of AI, computational science, and energy finance — solving uniquely hard problems with modern tools (industry stack: Python, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Tableau, Python).
- **Talent density and background**: The team is small (<20 people) and highly experienced, coming from top institutions in energy, finance, and tech. Strong culture of expertise and drive.
- **Growth trajectory**: Headcount is doubling, job postings are surging, and the company is expanding internationally — early-stage fast growth with tangible career acceleration for employees.
- **Hybrid/remote flexibility**: Offers remote or hybrid working arrangements depending on role and location. New York HQ has office space for in-person collaboration.
- **Autonomy and ownership**: As a small, growing startup, employees (especially in technical and business roles) will have significant ownership over projects and can shape the company’s direction early.

## Sources
1. [comity.ai](https://www.comity.ai/)
2. [comity.ai - About](https://www.comity.ai/about.html)
3. [LinkedIn - Comity](https://www.linkedin.com/company/comityinc)
4. [Built In - Comity Careers](https://builtin.com/company/comity)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Comity](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comity)

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