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**Brand Description for Daylight Climate**

Daylight Climate is dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to confront the challenges of climate change through education, engagement, and action. This innovative platform connects passionate changemakers who are focused on discovering and implementing impactful, evidence-based solutions to the climate crisis. Daylight Climate offers a wide array of resources, including insights on climate change solutions, nature-based initiatives, and the latest developments in climatetech startups. 

By bridging the gap between climatetech startups and corporations, Daylight Climate plays a crucial role in facilitating agreements for low-carbon industrial products, paving the way for a sustainable future. Their commitment to clear communication about decarbonization makes complex topics accessible to everyone. Join the movement today to explore actionable steps that can make a difference in your community and beyond. Whether you're a business or an individual, Daylight Climate invites you to be part of the journey toward a more sustainable world. Connect with their network of changemakers and take meaningful action against climate change.

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Daylight is a market infrastructure company accelerating the commercialization of clean energy and industrial technologies. We help scale solutions in clean firm power, fuels, industrial heat, cement, and steel — sectors responsible for over one-third of global emissions.

We're building an AI-native platform that connects energy suppliers with hyperscalers and data center developers. Our tools automate diligence, structure deals, and help both sides move from evaluation to signed agreements faster.

Our first vertical and product, Daylight Power, focuses on clean, reliable power for data centers — the binding constraint today. The same platform will expand to other critical industrial inputs over time.

We believe the bottleneck in scaling energy infrastructure isn't the tech — it's capital flow, coordination, and contracting.

### **Build Energy Infrastructure Faster**

**Location:** San Francisco Bay Area

**Role Type**: Full-Time, Contract-to-Hire

**Compensation:** Meaningful equity, market-rate salary as funding progresses

**Sector:** Energy Infrastructure / ClimateTech / Enterprise Software / Artificial Intelligence / Industrials / Finance

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### What You’ll Do

- **Lead Offtake & Power Purchase Agreement Strategy**  
Own strategy and execution for corporate offtake agreements, fuel contracts, and innovative procurement structures—bridging the gap between early buyer conversations and contract-ready deal terms, timelines, and requirements.

- **Shape GTM Strategy, Originate & Close Deals**  
Build relationships with sustainability teams, project developers, and investors. Bring deals from sourcing to signature.

- **Standardize Project Diligence**  
Help define the templates, data rooms, and commercial terms that unlock bankability for new tech.

- **Bridge Commercial Background and Product Management**  
Translate buyer pain points into product requirements that streamline contracting and de-risk transactions. Stay plugged into product management and operations work so we ship what customers need and execute reliably.

- **Be a Founding Operator**  
Exhibit an 'owner's mindset', ready to pivot quickly from executive-level strategy to granular operational tasks or customer-facing support in a fast-paced environment.

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### Who You Are

- Have led or supported **PPA, offtake, or long-term fuel contract negotiations** (corporate or developer side)

- Bring **commercial structuring experience**, including shaping terms, risk allocation, and bankability for complex deals

- Understand the building blocks of **project finance** and how investors evaluate risk

- Have worked at the intersection of **commercial strategy and energy project development**

- Have an **investment and/or operations background** (e.g., infra investing, project development ops, strategy & ops) that helps you execute end-to-end

- Thrive in **ambiguous, early-stage environments** and want to build something from scratch

- Excited to be a **founding member** or very early team member at a mission-driven startup

- Maintain a ‘player-coach’ mindset, balancing high-level strategic leadership with a willingness to execute day-to-day operations and resolve customer escalations as needed to ensure team and customer success.

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### Bonus Points

- Strong network in the decarbonization ecosystem (corporate buyers, project developers, infrastructure funds)

- Experience on the **legal or commercial side** of large, complex transactions; if legal, experience working with or across from top-tier firms (ie. Orrick) and/or hyperscaler counterparties

- Strong **product instincts**

- Understanding of marketplace infrastructure and business models

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### What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is deeply motivated by climate impact and energized by the challenge of building from zero to one. You might be a fit if you are:

- **Wildly driven and curious**, and excited to throw yourself into the fire of an early-stage startup.

- The kind of person who **keeps building and learning** outside of work because you genuinely cannot help it.

- Someone with **deep, niche intellectual obsessions**. You love going down rabbit holes until you understand the thing better than almost anyone else.

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### Daylight Values

You will thrive at Daylight if you:

- Exhibit **high agency** and take ownership end-to-end.

- Are **highly collaborative** and bring a low-ego, team-first approach.

- Bring **compassion and deep care** for the people you work with, and help create a supportive, high-trust community.

- Have real **comfort with ambiguity**, and can create structure where none exists.

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