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# Analyst, Energy Storage Optimization & Analytics at Daylight

- **Company:** Daylight
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-03-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/daylight/jobs/4574423008

## Job description

## About Daylight

Daylight is building a decentralized electric utility. We're building technology that enables homes to generate, store, and share energy with their neighbors, turning passive consumers into active participants in a smarter, more sustainable grid.

Our team brings together energy and crypto veterans who believe in a future where communities power themselves. Backed by a16z, Framework, and other industry-leading investors, we're building the infrastructure to make that vision a reality. Learn more at [www.godaylight.com](http://www.godaylight.com)

## The Role

In this role at Daylight, you’ll play a critical role in executing our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and demand response program participation across the country. You’ll develop strategies to drive revenue growth, optimize asset performance, and collaborate with the development team to build an internal platform that integrates revenue stacking, analytics, and operational efficiencies.

We're an early-stage startup, so this role goes beyond traditional asset optimization. You’ll support functions related to energy trading, pricing strategies, and risk management while ensuring compliance with program requirements and internal risk metrics. You’ll also develop partnerships and build operational capabilities to enhance commercial performance.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about energy markets and technology who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You’ll shape our analytics platform, integrate key data sources, and develop risk management frameworks—all while having opportunities to grow into a leadership position as we scale.

This role is remote with the New York City metro area preferred. Travel to New York City is required for meetings and team building events.

## Responsibilities

- Strategic Leadership
- Assist in the execution of VPP and demand response program participation across the country.
- Develop strategies aligned with the company’s business goals and revenue objectives.
- Assist the development team in building an internal VPP scheduling platform that integrates revenue stacking, operational constraints, and analytics to maximize asset value.
- Monitor market trends, regulatory developments, and competitive dynamics to identify business opportunities.
- Asset Optimization
- Oversee market activities, including scheduling and dispatch, pricing strategies, and risk management, to optimize asset performance.
- Build operational capabilities to manage obligations while ensuring BESS warranties, degradation targets, and market participation requirements are met.
- Develop partnerships with optimization and scheduling platforms to enhance commercial operations.
- Market Analytics & Strategy
- Identify and integrate data sources for energy market forecasting, congestion analysis, and revenue modeling.
- Maintain expertise in ISO/RTO market structures, energy trading strategies, and risk-adjusted returns for contracted and merchant revenue scenarios.
- Assess the asset pipeline by market, development timeline, and commercial readiness, developing a roadmap for revenue optimization.

## What we’re looking for

| Must Haves

- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
- 2+ years of experience in energy market analytics, trading, commercial operations, or asset optimization.
- Expertise in power markets, risk management, and regulatory requirements (experience with CAISO, NYISO, PJM, and ERCOT is a plus).
- Understanding of state-level programs (e.g., CA DSGS, MA Connected Solutions, MA Clean Peak Standard, etc.).
- Self-motivated with strong leadership skills and the ability to manage cross-functional teams.
- A results-oriented individual with a proven ability to prioritize tasks, manage their workload effectively, and deliver high-quality work with minimal supervision.
- Deep knowledge of energy storage optimization, power marketing, revenue forecasting, and market participation strategies.
- Strong data analytics and modeling experience to support decision-making and risk analysis.

## What we offer

- Competitive salary and equity package
- Opportunity to shape a category-defining product from the ground up
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Wellhub membership
- Monthly wellness stipend

Daylight values diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We're building technology that serves everyone, and we believe diverse perspectives make our team and our product stronger.

## About Daylight

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Daylight provides a personalized "onchain for you" API that powers recommendation feeds in major crypto wallets, telling users what mints, claims, quests, and other transactions they can perform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $9M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (169 Madison Avenue, Suite 2726)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Kyle McCollom (CEO) and Morley Zhi (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Web3 / Crypto Infrastructure; Internet Publishing
- **Target customers**: B2B — crypto wallets (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Zerion, OKX Web3 Wallet, etc.), creator tools (PartyDAO, Highlight, Zora), and other "address-aware" applications.
- **Mission statement**: To drive 5% of all onchain GDP by powering the front doors of the onchain world with personalized discovery.

## Products & Services
- **Daylight API**: A REST API that serves tens of thousands of requests per second, summarizing millions of rows of offchain data and terabytes of onchain data in under 750ms. It provides personalized transaction recommendations (mints, claims, quests, dapps, swaps) to wallet apps, driving 5% of their transacting users. It functions as a "home tab" or "explore tab" for wallets, akin to Netflix or Spotify recommendations but for onchain actions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $9M (as of September 2024)
- **Annual Revenue**: $750,000 (estimated private data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Union Square Ventures (USV, lead in latest round), 1kx (co-lead), Framework Ventures, Chapter One, Eniac, 6th Man Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, OpenSea, Spice Capital, Uncommon Projects, and angels including evgeny.eth (Zerion co-founder), vadim.eth (Zerion co-founder), corbin.eth (early Consensys), idobn.eth (Blockaid co-founder), razniv.eth (Blockaid co-founder), nir.eth (Yup co-founder), and Shreyas Hariharan (Llama co-founder).
- **Growth Signals**: Reaches over 6 million active addresses monthly; powers the home/discover tabs of major wallets (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Zerion, OKX Web3 Wallet); recently raised a $6M seed round led by USV (Sep 2024); hiring staff-level backend engineers to scale from 6M to tens of millions of monthly addresses.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: As the most widely integrated recommendation engine for crypto wallets, every new wallet partner increases Daylight's user reach and data, improving recommendation quality.
- **First-mover in "ability feeds"**: Building the infrastructure layer for personalized onchain discovery, a category that is new and sticky.
- **Open, composable value chain**: Crypto's permissionless referral flows allow Daylight to earn protocol rewards (e.g., from Zora mints) and share them with distribution partners without needing contractual agreements, creating a more efficient value chain than web2 equivalents.
- **Deep wallet integrations**: Already embedded in the majority of wallet apps, creating a high switching cost for partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale infrastructure**: Expand from 6M monthly addresses to tens of millions by hiring staff-level backend engineers.
- **Expand recommendation categories**: Move beyond mints, quests, and claims into new transaction types (e.g., swaps, voting, token-gated experiences).
- **Leverage offchain data**: Use offchain data to improve the recommendation algorithm and personalization.
- **Expand to more surfaces**: Power discovery in any "address-aware" application beyond wallets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Team believes in prioritizing problems that most impact the goal, minimizing distractions, writing good tests, communicating openly and directly, and having everyone (especially engineers) think about product and API design from the customer's perspective.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: NYC and Remote — offers flexibility.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Small, highly focused team (3 employees currently); you'll work on "meat-and-potatoes" software engineering problems (scaling REST APIs, optimizing PostgreSQL, tracing code paths on AWS); directly impact the core product and mission; backed by top-tier VCs (USV, 1kx) and industry angels; the founders have deep crypto and web2 experience (Stellar, OkCupid).

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn - Daylight](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daylightxyz)
2. [CB Insights - Daylight](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/daylight-1)
3. [Kyle McCollom blog - Daylight Raises $6M](https://www.kylemccollom.com/p/daylight-raises-6m-from-usv-1kx)
4. [Hello We3 - Daylight Profile](https://companies.hello-we3.com/company/daylight)
5. [Union Square Ventures - Daylight](https://blog.usv.com/daylight)

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