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title: 'Growth - France (CDD) at Axle Energy'
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# Growth - France (CDD) at Axle Energy

- **Company:** Axle Energy
- **Location:** France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/axle-careers/b71c8d30-6ab5-413f-b241-17873faa6871

## Job description

## About Us

At Axle Energy, we’re building the infrastructure that will underpin the decarbonised energy system. Our software moves energy usage to times when electricity is cheap and green, by controlling vehicle charging, heating systems, inverters and home batteries. We control hundreds of thousands of energy assets. We’re building in a legacy industry and moving gigawatt-hours of electrons in the real world, but we operate at lightning speed, and we’re growing the team to meet customer demand. We’re proud to be supported by world-leading investors, including Energize Capital and Accel. Read more about what we’re building [here](https://www.axle.energy/blog/analysis/power-of-the-home). France is one of the most important flexibility markets in Europe. This role is critical to accelerating Axle’s growth in France.

We’re looking for a commercially sharp, highly autonomous operator to drive Axle’s commercial success in the French market. This is a role that spans both sales and go to market. You’ll be responsible for both winning new partners (OEMs, utilities, platforms, etc.) and making those partnerships succeed over time. This is a multifaceted, client-facing role with a strong technical component. You will own the full commercial lifecycle and should be comfortable moving between strategic conversations, commercial negotiations, onboarding and account growth. You will speak native-level French and fluent English. Other European languages will also be an asset.

This role will own:

- Winning new business
- Go-to-market strategy and execution
- Client onboarding and implementation support
- Account management and expansion

## What you will be doing

- Owning Axle’s commercial results for the French market (pipeline, revenue and partner success)
- Building and managing a strong pipeline of partners across key segments (OEMs, energy retailers, installers, platforms, etc.)
- Owning new customer acquisition end-to-end, from first conversation through to commercial close, setting our partners up to generate meaningful revenue
- Driving go-to-market execution with partners, including value propositions, pricing considerations, customer segmentation and launch strategies
- Managing post-implementation relationships with clients after go-live, driving continuous improvement and opportunity to deepen engagement or grow the account
- Acting as a conduit between partners and engineering teams creating fast, structured feedback loops that help translate field insights into meaningful product enhancements
- Building and refine scalable sales and partner processes that support repeatable growth across different customer segments
- Tracking performance, pipeline, and outcomes, using data to prioritise effort and continuously improve commercial effectiveness
- Operating with low structure and high ownership: remove friction, avoid bureaucracy, move fast

What’s in it for you This is a 12 month fixed-term contract. Compensation is highly competitive and dependent on experience. We operate with a deliberately flat structure and aim to keep pay equitable across the company, with a 1:1 median ratio between founder and team compensation. Bi-annual retreats to strengthen team connection & shared purpose. You’ll be based in France. To maximise collaboration, we ask that you spend ~1 week per month working from our London office. The opportunity to directly shape the future of energy markets and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world. We are extremely keen to build a diverse team, and we’re particularly eager to hear from candidates who don't fit the traditional role stereotypes. If you’re motivated by our mission, please do reach out, even if you feel you might not ‘check all the boxes’.

Interview process

- Initial interview
- Take-home exercise
- Final interview (in-person)
- Offer, references, and welcome to the team!

## About Axle Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Axle Energy connects distributed energy assets like EV chargers, heat pumps, and home batteries to electricity flexibility markets, enabling decarbonization and revenue generation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $10.6M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023 [axle.energy/about](https://www.axle.energy/about)
- **Founders**: Karl Bach (CEO) and Archy de Berker (CTO) [axle.energy/about](https://www.axle.energy/about)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Clean energy / Grid flexibility software
- **Target customers**: B2B – energy companies, utility partners, and asset operators who manage EV chargers, heat pumps, solar panels, and batteries in customers' homes.
- **Mission**: "To decarbonize the grid" by replacing fossil-fuel grid balancing with flexible, distributed energy assets [axle.energy](https://www.axle.energy/).

## Products & Services
- **Axle Energy Platform (SaaS/API)**: A modular platform that connects, forecasts, and optimizes decentralized energy assets to trade in local and national flexibility markets. Key modules include:
  - **Connect**: API integrations with dozens of asset brands, plus pre-built user onboarding flows.
  - **Manage**: Probabilistic forecasting and optimization (ML models) to maximize revenue while respecting user preferences.
  - **Monetize**: Market access (trading licenses across Europe), payment flows to reimburse users, and support for "bring your own strategy" trading. [axle.energy](https://www.axle.energy/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$10.6M** [linkedin.com/company/axle-energy](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/axle-energy)
- **Notable Investors**: Accel (led $8.9M seed round in August 2024), Picus Capital (led $1.6M pre-seed in June 2023) [cbinsights.com/company/axle-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/axle-energy)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Portfolio exceeds **1 GW** – larger than most wind farms [axle.energy](https://www.axle.energy/)
  - Annual value of an EV in UK flexibility markets estimated at **~£400** (2024-2025) [axle.energy](https://www.axle.energy/)
  - Headcount of **25 employees** with **+11.1% monthly growth** [linkedin.com/company/axle-energy](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/axle-energy)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Probabilistic forecasting**: Built from the ground up to handle variable behavior of decentralized assets (uncertain availability of EVs, heat pumps, etc.).
- **Modular architecture**: Customers can use individual modules (API, pre-built UI components, or whitelabel app) – no hardware required.
- **Comprehensive market access**: Trading licenses across European flexibility markets, enabling rapid entry (days, not months).
- **Existing integrations**: Direct API connections with dozens of asset brands, plus fleet-level dispatch API.

## Strategic Focus
- **European expansion**: Already covering key flexibility markets across Europe; aim to scale platform to more countries and asset types.
- **Revenue stacking**: Optimizing assets across multiple value streams (local and national flex markets) to maximize returns for partners.
- **Grid decarbonization**: Replacing fossil fuel peaker plants with software-orchestrated distributed energy.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "scrappy," "bold," and "low structure, high ownership" – small teams of exceptional people empowered to solve problems [axle.energy/careers](https://www.axle.energy/careers).
- **Work style**: Emphasis on shipping fast, iterating, and tolerating uncertainty. "Action produces information."
- **Benefits**: Enhanced parental leave noted on careers page [axle.energy/careers](https://www.axle.energy/careers).
- **Team**: 25 employees (83% in UK), with open roles in Engineering, BizOps, Data Science, People Ops, Partnerships, and International Expansion [linkedin.com/company/axle-energy](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/axle-energy).
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Not explicitly stated, but the London headquarters and "low structure" suggest flexibility; likely hybrid or remote-friendly.

## Sources
1. [axle.energy/about](https://www.axle.energy/about)
2. [axle.energy/careers](https://www.axle.energy/careers)
3. [axle.energy](https://www.axle.energy/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/axle-energy](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/axle-energy)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/axle-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/axle-energy)

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