Associate, Clean Molecules

Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is a global investment platform leading the transition to a sustainable energy future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and some of the world’s most forward-looking energy, real estate, and industrial companies to advance clean energy innovation. With over $4 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, and credit.

We’re seeking an Associate to join our Research & Innovation group: the team at EIP responsible for the strategic platform bridging EIP’s investment teams, LPs, and portfolio companies. This position will support our clean molecules, clean fuels, clean chemicals, and carbon management sectors. Within those domains, this role will support in the development of deep market insight and apply that insight to: A) support our investment deal flow; B) help our strategic LPs transform their businesses; and C) accelerate commercialization for our portfolio companies.

This is an opportunity to work on a growing focus area in an established firm driving innovation across the energy ecosystem. We’re looking for an insatiably curious, analytically minded market researcher, who’s able to manage multiple workstreams and draw insights across an ecosystem spanning startup engineers and corporate finance.

Our Research & Innovation team is the reason we’re the climate tech capital of choice for both the startup and incumbent ends of the energy ecosystem. This position will be based in Atlanta, GA but we will consider exceptional candidates based in New York, NY.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Generating sector research & insight

• Support market analysis on a wide variety of topics – synthesizing industry research and data from diverse sources to generate insight that’s simply unavailable anywhere else
• Develop market landscapes for investable target companies
• Identify the transformational impact that emerging technology might have on our strategic partners’ businesses
• Perform fundamental modelling of technology and market pathways to adoption

Engage our strategic partners

• Support and lead working groups events of subject matter experts and operational leaders from our strategic partner consortium
• Work hand in hand with partners on building business cases and deployment pathways for transformational technology

Establish thought leadership

• Share our insight, both internally and externally, to share EIP’s views both within and outside of our immediate ecosystem
• Develop credibility as a trusted internal advisor on key trends and markets.

Create value for EIP investment strategy & portfolio

• Collaborate with our investment teams to source deal opportunities and build conviction in investment decisions
• Share actionable insight with our portfolio on market dynamics & opportunities
• Support portfolio companies by advising on product development roadmaps & go-to-market strategy
• Connect portfolio companies with applicable partners to support commercial pipeline development; track follow ups and feedback to enable positive commercial outcomes and refine go-to-market strategy

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in market analysis; management consulting; corporate strategy; investment banking, or other relevant fields
• Bachelor’s degree in scientific/engineering field (chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, sustainability, mechanical engineering, or similar)
• Prior experience, or demonstrated interest in, the energy or climate tech sector; added benefit is previous exposure and interest in clean molecules topics
• Excellent analytical skills and capability to assess complex business cases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to juggle multiple competing priorities in fast paced environment with limited oversight
• An independent mindset and intellectual curiosity
• A proven track record of working effectively on a team and being a good teammate
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint