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# Vice President, Accouting at Antora Energy

- **Company:** Antora Energy
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/antora/jobs/6238567004

## Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

Antora Energy is hiring a Vice President of Accounting to lead technical accounting, accounting operations, and US GAAP financial reporting across Antora and its growing portfolio of manufacturing entities and project companies. You will own the company's accounting positions from initial research through audit sign-off, serve as the primary partner to external auditors, and ensure a fast, disciplined multi-entity monthly close that supports reporting to corporate and project-level investors.

You will build on a strong accounting foundation by thoughtfully bringing AI into recurring work, reviews, and reporting. You will develop automated processes to reduce manual effort and enhance the scalability of accounting operations, while setting the standards that keep reporting reliable, auditable, and compliant.  To do this well at Antora, you must be curious, open-minded, and hands-on.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Technical accounting: Serve as the company's subject matter expert on technical accounting across Antora and its project companies, owning accounting positions end to end, from research and memo through audit sign-off.
- Financial reporting: Own the preparation of US GAAP financial statements and footnote disclosures for Antora and each project company.
- Audit management: Act as the primary relationship owner with external auditors across corporate and project entities, managing audit timelines, deliverables, and outcomes.
- Close and investor reporting: Support a fast, disciplined multi-entity monthly close that feeds recurring financial reporting to corporate and project-level investors.
- AI integration: Identify, pilot, and embed AI tools and workflows in the accounting function, supporting monthly processes as well as audit and reporting reviews.
- Cross-functional partnership: Work with manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams to improve upstream data collection and component tracking, from purchase order through receipt, manufacturing, and sale.
- Team leadership: Lead, mentor, and scale the accounting team, fostering a culture of ownership, rigor, and continuous improvement.

## Key Qualifications

- CPA required; Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including tenure at a leading accounting firm.
- Hands-on experience in an operating accounting role, with deep command of US GAAP and technical accounting research.
- Experience with multi-entity project accounting, including consolidations, intercompany activity, and project-level financial reporting.
- Proven track record managing external audits and producing audited US GAAP financial statements.
- Prior leadership experience building and developing high-performing accounting teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex accounting conclusions for executives, investors, and non-accounting stakeholders.

Additional Qualifications Desired

- Operating experience at a hardware manufacturing or energy company.
- Experience with inventory and cost accounting in a manufacturing environment, including tracking components from purchase order through receipt, production, and sale.
- Familiarity with project finance and investor reporting for project-level entities.
- Demonstrated experience adopting AI or automation tools in an accounting or finance function.
- Experience working in a high-growth or early-stage company, scaling processes and systems as the business grows.

Work Location:  Onsite - San Jose, CA

Salary Range:  $242,000 USD - $290,000 USD

Salary Basis:  Annual

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

#LI-Onsite https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&utm_medium=badge  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.

## About Antora Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Antora Energy manufactures and deploys modular thermal batteries that convert low-cost, intermittent clean electricity into reliable, always-on heat and power for global industrial facilities and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Justin Briggs, Andrew Ponec, David Bierman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy Power Generation, Thermal Energy Storage, Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial energy users (biofuels, refining, pulp & paper, steel & iron, chemicals, mining, concrete & lime, food & beverage) and data center operators (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We are here to power global industry with clean energy.” The company aims to make cheap, clean energy the standard that powers global industry.

## Products & Services
- **Thermal Battery System**: A modular, factory-built energy storage system that uses solid carbon (one of the safest, most stable materials on earth) to store surplus clean electricity as heat. It delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations, scales from megawatts to gigawatts, and is designed for low cost, rapid deployment, and massive scale.
- **Project Big Stone**: One of the largest battery storage systems in the world, deployed in under 12 months for POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer. It delivers affordable, reliable energy and serves as a proof-of-concept for the company’s giga-scale deployment model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$220.0M** across 10 rounds, including a $150M Series B led by Decarbonization Partners (Feb 2024). Annual revenue estimated at **$7.7M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Decarbonization Partners, National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission. Key partner: POET (biofuels).
- **Growth Signals**: 197 employees (+36.6% YoY), 31,700 LinkedIn followers (+42.9% YoY), active job postings up 140% YoY. The company is building gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries annually at its U.S. factory and has a presence in Spain.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Uses solid carbon thermal storage—a simple, safe, and low-cost material—to provide both heat and power, differentiating from chemical battery or molten salt solutions.
- **Modular & Factory-Built**: Modules are manufactured in a U.S. factory, enabling rapid deployment, seamless integration, and operational redundancy at any scale.
- **Speed to Market**: Project Big Stone advanced from an empty lot to energy delivery in under 12 months, demonstrating a fast deployment model that can be replicated globally.
- **Multi-day Storage**: Provides reliable energy for industrial operations where downtime is not an option, solving the intermittency problem of renewables.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and Replicate**: Replicating the Project Big Stone model at factories and data centers across the U.S. and globally.
- **Giga-scale Manufacturing**: Expanding factory capacity to produce gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries each year, with a focus on American manufacturing.
- **Market Expansion**: Targeting hard-to-abate industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemicals) and data centers, while expanding internationally (e.g., Spain).
- **Cost Leadership**: Driving down costs to make cheap, clean energy the standard for global industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s north star is to power global industry with clean energy, offering employees a chance to work on one of the most urgent climate challenges.
- **Culture**: Values include “Build with Humility & Openness,” “Team & Mission First,” and “Joy & Laughter Connect Us.” The company emphasizes kindness, collaboration, and learning from setbacks.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with “Home Week” each quarter to bring in-person and remote team members together. Offices in San Jose, CA; Big Stone City, SD; and remote roles in the U.S.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, 16 weeks paid parental leave, comprehensive medical/vision/dental, HSA with employer contribution, subsidized backup childcare/senior care/petcare, mental health support, on-site gym, healthy snacks, and volunteer time off.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Teams work on cutting-edge thermal storage, manufacturing, and field engineering. The company is growing fast (36% headcount growth) and offers the chance to shape a new industry.

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

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