Director, Grid Connections (Energy)

Location: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

Company

hirify.global develops AI and machine-learning-powered, physics-enabled digital twins for electricity grids and infrastructure networks.

What you will do

• Lead the overall success and delivery of the Self-Service Grid Connection Toolkit project, making time, cost and product trade-offs and approving material decisions within delegated authority.
• Manage Customer Success engineers, coordinating customer discovery, requirements, testing, onboarding and deployment work.
• Define product priorities and scalable market-fit improvements with Product and Strategy leadership, translating T/DNSP and external-user workflows into requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead GET partner relationships, customer decisions, testing participation, readiness and acceptance outcomes.
• Champion the product through technical workshops, demonstrations and customer discussions with utilities, governments and government agencies, while providing input to AU Sales and future scaling plans.
• Own evidence of product benefits, including connection-processing time, engineering effort, application quality and customer experience, and approve substantive reporting and case-study content.

Requirements

• Substantial Australian electricity or energy-sector experience, including practical understanding of distribution network connections and relevant customer workflows.
• Proven commercial leadership and experience commercialising and expanding adoption of energy-sector technologies.
• Demonstrated project outcome leadership across customer, engineering and product teams, including time, cost and product trade-offs.
• Ability to turn customer discovery into prioritised requirements, acceptance criteria and timely product decisions, and validate product fit through practical testing.
• Ability to explain technical value to senior stakeholders, influence customer decisions and develop credible evidence and business cases.
• Responsibility for priorities within the Chief Product Officer's platform framework, with changes outside the framework or project mandate escalated.
• Responsibility for overall accountability while the Delivery Lead manages the daily schedule, dependencies, risks, costs and project reporting, and Engineering owns estimates, architecture, implementation and technical quality.

Nice to have

• Experience with DER integration, network planning, technical product commercialisation, government-funded projects, or grid connection policy and reform.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and ESOP.
• Significant career development and global growth opportunities.
• Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern.
• Meritocratic, non-bureaucratic and no-ego work culture.
• Opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems at a high-growth company.
• Commitment to diversity, belonging and equal employment opportunities.