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title: 'International Expansion at Axle Energy'
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# International Expansion at Axle Energy

- **Company:** Axle Energy
- **Location:** Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/axle-careers/dc1004b9-ce43-46b1-b281-97a647dc1242

## 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).

We’re looking for a commercially sharp, highly autonomous operator to drive Axle’s commercial success in the German market. Axle has quickly become the leader in our operational markets, and we’re now looking to expand our reach internationally. Our goal is to become the go-to platform for energy flexibility globally, and we’re hiring the person to make that happen. This role will assess Axle’s participation in German markets and business models from first principles: diving deep into regulations, modelling revenue-per-asset, and trialling new propositions at pace. You speak German and fluent English. Other European languages are also an asset.

## What you will be doing

- Owning Axle’s commercial results in the German market: pipeline, revenue and partner success
- Winning new customers end-to-end, from first conversation through to commercial close, and setting partners up to generate meaningful revenue
- Driving go-to-market execution with partners, including value propositions, pricing, customer segmentation and launch strategy
- Building the zero-to-one of the business through partnerships. You’ll be on the phone (and on the ground) with utilities/retailers, potential clients and grid operators, creating and disproving hypotheses as quickly as possible
- Continuing to sharpen our view of where the value is and which markets and business models are accessible to us
- Building lasting relationships with grid operators and the regulator, so that Axle is well positioned as the market evolves
- Acting as the conduit between partners and engineering, creating fast, structured feedback loops that turn field insights into product improvements

As such, we are looking for a “full-stack operator” who can process highly technical information, ramp up commercial value, and accelerate us into new markets. You might have previous experience in one or more of the activities above, but we are more interested in your growth potential than your domain-specific expertise. We are looking for people who have built things, developed new relationships, and helped get big projects over the line in complex environments. This is an opportunity to repeatedly deliver first-of-a-kind projects across the world, become a domain expert, and work at the bleeding edge of global electrification.

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 the Germany. 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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