• Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative discipline
• Minimum 4 years of experience in the energy market industry
• Minimum of 6 years of business development, sales, or marketing experience
• Familiarity with wholesale energy market dynamics
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to interpret complex analytic solutions into value propositions
• Professional attitude and presentation
• Passion for clean energy, renewables, and the clean energy transition

Desirable

• Manage other sales team members that report to you
• Coordinate with other product teams to leverage existing customer bases as well as identify and prospect renewable energy asset owners, developers, operators, and utilities to grow a pipeline of opportunities
• Manage and negotiate close of contract sales for Ascend's ongoing optimization and bidding automation platform SmartBidder
• Effectively communicate relative advantages of Ascend’s forecasting, bid optimization, and trading strategies for storage and renewable energy
• Manage presentations and demos of analytic software solutions to in a highly proficient and professional manner
• Manage sales through forecasting, account resource allocation, account strategy, and planning
• Manage and develop solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the product
• Manage and develop processes for cross selling and upselling
• Manage and lead development of customer/prospecting events such as conferences, seminars, and webinars
• Manage/develop materials for the mass marketing channels and specific events
• Manage and lead timely and relevant data on opportunities and accounts in SalesForce
• Manage and develop key customer relationships
• Manage marketing to run email marketing campaigns