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# Key Account Director at Neara

- **Company:** Neara
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £100k–£110k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neara/58d62911-7968-49f0-bbf1-8945c9d89870

## Job description

Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara.

We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.

By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.

Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.

## Key Account Director

We're seeking a driven, dynamic, and strategic commercial leader to drive growth across our key accounts in Europe. This is a hands-on, high-impact player-coach role focused predominantly on personal account execution paired with informal team leadership and commercial mentoring.

To succeed in this role, you will need a consultative mindset, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of the utilities industry. You will also need a proven track record of commercial execution across large, multi-year, multi-faceted contracts, and experience leading or mentoring a customer-facing team.

## What You'll Do

- Personally own and grow relationships with a portfolio of our most strategic accounts, serving as the senior commercial relationship owner and executive point of contact.
- Develop and deliver expansion plans across assigned key accounts to execute against business metrics and revenue goals.
- Coach the team on account strategy, executive engagement, and commercial execution on complex, multi-year contracts.
- Identify new workflow improvements and use-case opportunities, helping to upskill the broader customer-facing team in commercial best practices.
- Collaborate with Customer Success Operations, Customer Value Architects, and Product on overall account strategy and execution.
- Develop processes to scale the Key Account Management function as Neara's European business grows.
- Co-present with utilities at key conferences and events across Europe, helping elevate Neara’s market presence.
- Report on account performance, pipeline, and expansion opportunities to senior leadership.

## Who You Are

- Demonstrated history of personally managing and expanding enterprise-level accounts within complex technical or SaaS environments, ideally operating as a Key Account Director, Key Account Manager, Client Partner, or in a similar enterprise role.
- Experience leading, managing, or mentoring Account Managers or Customer Success Managers, ideally in a player-coach capacity.
- Experience in strategic sales, management consulting, or tech-enabled enterprise environments.
- Domain exposure to the utilities sector or a similarly complex, technical, infrastructure-heavy industry is highly desirable.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to navigate executive dynamics and foster a collaborative, customer-centric culture internally.
- Fluent in English (required); additional European languages are a plus.

## What We Are Offering You

- Competitive salary + commission structure.
- Significant development opportunities with scope for lateral and upward movement in a high-growth company.
- Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and low-ego work culture.
- The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in expanding Neara’s footprint across Europe’s largest utilities to solve real-world infrastructure problems.
- Enjoy the opportunity to work across multiple business areas and build relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

## #LI-NT1

## About Neara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neara builds the first physics-enabled digital twin platform that models critical infrastructure networks (power grids, utilities) to simulate real-world conditions, optimize resilience, and accelerate the energy transition.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, raised ~AUD 90M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jack Curtis (Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer) and others (exact list not fully public; co-founder team includes engineering and domain experts)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Software Development for Energy & Infrastructure (power transmission, distribution, renewables, grid resilience)
- **Target customers**: B2B – utilities (electric, gas, water), network operators, renewable energy developers, and infrastructure owners. Works with ~90% of Australian network utilities and international partners like Southern California Edison, CenterPoint Energy, ESB Networks, Scottish Power.
- **Mission statement**: Provide utilities and infrastructure owners with a physics-accurate digital twin that moves them from seeing “what is” to understanding “what if,” enabling safer, more resilient systems and better-informed investment decisions.

## Products & Services
- **Neara Platform (Physics-Enabled Digital Twin)**: SaaS platform that creates a geometrically precise, behaviourally accurate 3D model of entire infrastructure networks (poles, lines, vegetation, terrain). It runs network-wide simulations for severe weather, wildfire, flooding, load growth, and asset failure. Modules include:
  - **Resiliency & Reliability**: Assess and harden networks against storms, heat, and fire.
  - **Wildfire Mitigation**: Identify high-risk assets and prioritise intervention.
  - **Vegetation Management**: Automate clearance compliance.
  - **Design & Construction**: Simulate new feeder builds, pole replacements, and reconfigurations.
  - **Risk & Value Optimization**: Quantify investment trade-offs and regulator-ready reports.
  - **Renewable Energy & Decarbonization**: Analyse capacity for new generation connections and grid interconnection.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: ~AUD 180M (~USD 150.8M) as of Feb 2026, including Series D led by TCV.
  - **Annual Revenue**: ~USD 5.2M (estimated from LinkedIn; likely conservative given headcount and funding stage).
  - **Global Reach**: Modeled over 15 million assets covering more than 3 million km across four continents.
  - **Customers**: Partnerships with global utilities including Southern California Edison, CenterPoint Energy, ESB Networks, Scottish Power, Essential Energy, Ausgrid, Powercor, SA Power Networks.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: TCV (lead, Series D), Partners Group, EQT, Square Peg Capital, Skip Capital, Prosus Ventures, OIF Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 73.4% YoY (176 employees from 85).
  - Active job postings: 44 (up 83.3% YoY).
  - Series D raised AUD 90M in Feb 2026 to accelerate AI/ML talent and global expansion.
  - Claims customers bring new infrastructure online 85% faster and achieve 8-9 figure cost savings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physics-first approach**: Unlike typical AI/ML pattern-matching, Neara’s digital twin is built on real-world physics (structural, thermal, loading, clearance) – grounding every simulation in engineering reality.
- **Single unified model**: One platform replaces fragmented point solutions (vegetation, inspection, storm, load) – all workflows feed from the same geometrically and behaviourally accurate twin.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Years working with large utilities; understands regulatory, safety, and operational constraints.
- **High switching costs**: Once a utility builds its entire operations on Neara’s model, replacing it is extremely difficult.
- **Global references**: Partnerships with marquee utilities in the US, Europe, and Australia provide credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Talent pipeline**: Accelerating hiring of ML and AI engineers to further develop the physics-enabled technology.
- **International expansion**: Growing commercial teams in the US, UK, Europe (Lithuania), India, and Philippines.
- **Addressing infrastructure crisis**: Focusing on data centre load growth, renewable interconnection, and grid hardening under climate stress.
- **Product depth**: Adding more solutions on the same platform (e.g., wildfire, flood, capacity, design).

## Why Work Here
- **High-stakes impact**: Work directly affects how utilities keep the lights on, prevent wildfires, and prepare for storms – real-world consequences for every line of code.
- **Engineering culture**: Deep spatial ML, computational geometry, and physics simulation – not another CRUD app. “We don’t do hypothetical,” says the careers page.
- **Global team**: 176 people across 10+ countries (Australia, US, UK, Lithuania, India, Philippines, etc.). Hybrid/remote-friendly roles observed in open postings.
- **Growth trajectory**: 73% headcount growth in the last year, 44 open roles – opportunity to shape the company as it scales.
- **Values**: “Mission-critical impact,” “engineering-grade reality,” and “high stakes, high support.” They invest in people with talent communities and a structured hiring process.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on autonomy, solving ambiguous problems, and collaborative deep-dive interviews. Roles include Senior ML Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Success, Product Manager.

## Sources
1. [neara.com – Homepage](https://neara.com/)
2. [neara.com – Careers](https://neara.com/company/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com – Neara Company Page](https://au.linkedin.com/company/neara)
4. [neara.com – Press Release: $90M Series D](https://neara.com/resources/press/neara-raises-90-million-to-solve-the-global-infrastructure-crisis-with-ai/)
5. [neara.com – Talent Community](https://neara.com/company/talent-community/)

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