Growth Lead

Oakland, CA (On-site)

$170K/yr – $190K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end deal lifecycle from first contact to signature, guiding technoeconomic analysis, cross-functional orchestration, and scalable commercial motion.

  • Manage relationships and expectations across customers
  • Build and defend models and deal terms
  • Accelerate repeatable growth across offerings

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • End-to-end customer ownership: Own the relationship and the outcome from first contact to signature. Build and work the target list, get into the right rooms, understand the customer's site, load, schedule, and offtake constraints, and translate them into a configuration and commercial terms that work for both sides. Manage expectations honestly, including when the answer is no or not yet, and keep the relationship intact either way.
  • Technoeconomic case: Develop the models that underwrite each deal: scope splits with partners, capex and opex estimates, value-based pricing, risk-based contingency, and schedule sensitivity. Ground your assumptions in real evidence and hold up when the customer's engineering and finance teams take them apart.
  • Resource orchestration: Every deal raises many questions you will not personally answer: electrical architecture, civil and structural sensitivities, tax credit qualification, contract structure, among many. Identify what the deal needs, pull the right internal expert or outside specialist, get a decision, and keep moving. You need to be the person who never lets an open question sit.
  • Execution handoff: When a deal reaches standard execution, transition it cleanly to the project delivery team with context, commitments, and assumptions intact. Customers should never need to re-send information or re-explain their needs. The internal team should never need to duplicate existing work or re-invent the wheel.
  • Repeatable motion: Turn what you learn into work that scales beyond you: outreach, discovery, proposal structure, contract shape, pricing logic. As the core motion stabilizes, carry Planted's next commercial offerings to this customer set, including our distributed solar and storage product for modular compute, and make those repeatable too.

Requirements

  • Commercial track record. 5+ years in commercial roles at energy, infrastructure, or hard-tech companies, running deals or projects end to end.
  • Infrastructure fluency. Professional experience with physical assets that actually got constructed, and participated in capital-intensive decisions around development, engineering, procurement, or construction.
  • Quantitative rigor. Hands-on experience in technoeconomic modeling, project preconstruction, or infrastructure deal structuring. You build the model, ground your assumptions in real evidence, and defend them under a sophisticated counterparty's diligence.
  • Client-facing presence. Credible in front of technical buyers, finance counterparts, and executive sponsors, and honest with them about what is and is not possible.
  • High agency. You move fast, you do not wait for direction on second-order tasks, and you know when to escalate. You can influence without authority to prioritize tasks. You do not shy away from unfamiliar subjects because you know how to find the person with the answer.

Preferred

  • Direct exposure to hyperscalers, neoclouds, AI factories, or data center developers as customers, partners, or employers.
  • Experience with solar, storage, project finance, or adjacent capital-intensive infrastructure.
  • Founder or first commercial hire experience: hands-on responsibility for building something from nothing.
  • MBA or equivalent strategic finance training.
  • International or emerging-market deal experience.

Benefits

  • 11 paid company holidays and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Company-paid in-office lunches
  • Stock options
  • Medical, vision, dental, and other benefits
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • 401(k)
  • A chance to have an empowered, meaningful, and early role in climate
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Planted

3.5 Glassdoor

Planted combines proprietary structuring and fermentation technologies to produce meat from plant proteins, focusing on delicious taste, meaty and juicy texture, while only using clean ingredients. Planted designs and structures its meat in any size, shape, and fibrous texture and is driven by the conviction that they will outperform animal meat in the future in terms of taste, sustainability, health, efficiency and price. Committed to using only clean ingredients and no additives in all its products, Planted is setting a completely new standard in the plant-based meat category, making it a healthy and sustainable choice for all. Truly better than meat from animals. A growing population along with increasing life expectancy and incomes are major drivers for the rise in global meat demand. However, the current scale of the animal meat industry is beyond unsustainable. Planted wants to change that. The Zurich-based FoodTech spin-off from the Swiss Technical Institute of Technology (ETH) was founded in 2019 and was quick to build intellectual property around their technological approach, currently holding several patents. Planted is a certified B Corporation. Planted’s principal meat production is in a glass-house production facility in Kemptthal (Zurich) Switzerland - the first transparent meat production open to the public. Planted meats are available in over 6100 restaurants and more than 8700 retail outlets across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, UK and BeNeLux as well as over its own Europewide webshop. The Planted meat ranges, each consisting of different protein sources, currently include planted.chicken, planted.pulled, planted.kebab, planted.duck, planted.schnitzel, planted.bratwurst, planted.slices Lyoner and planted.steak. In addition, there are various limited editions in close collaboration with star chefs such as Tim Raue, Damien Germanier, Haya Molcho or Sebastian Copien.

Founded in 2019
Winterthur, Zurich, CHE
215 employees (14 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$170K/yr – $190K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$141.9M
Last Raise
$71.3M
Series Unknown

Funding History

  • Dec 2024
    Series Unknown
  • Apr 2023
    Grant
  • Sep 2022
    Series B • $71.3M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
51.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
74.9%
Direct
12%
Referral
6.7%
Social
6.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~215

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