VP Brand & Communications
📈 Who We Are:
We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair.
Our goal is to put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers and to take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity.
tem exists to fix a broken global energy market that’s long favoured legacy operators, intermediaries, and opaque pricing. Today’s electricity system was not designed for rapid decarbonisation, AI-driven efficiency or fair access for the actual users - businesses and generators.
We’ve built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced. Our technology is designed to cut out the inefficient fees, automate complex market flows, and bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale.
In late 2025, after extraordinary growth, we closed a $75 million Series B - led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Atomico, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital and others - positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership.
We’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide.
Since launch, our modern utility product, known as RED, has already facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value, proving that modern software and AI can transform an industry built on legacy systems.
At tem, we’re not just building another energy company, we’re rearchitecting market infrastructure so that transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception.
🏅 The Role
We’re hiring a VP Brand & Communications (E3 level).
Your job is to define how tem is understood and ensure our brand becomes an active force in shaping the energy transition conversation. This is not a campaign role. It is not a performance marketing role. It is a category-defining, reputation-shaping leadership role reporting directly into the Chief Growth Officer.
You will:
Be the CGO’s thought partner on category, positioning and narrative
Define tem’s long-term brand strategy and evolution
Build and articulate our technology story with clarity and ambition
Lead PR, Communications, Brand Partnerships and Brand strategy
Run the Content & Credibility Service across tem
You will sit at the intersection of growth, product, policy and leadership, ensuring tem is not just participating in the market, but shaping it.
🚀 Responsibilities
Define and shape the category
Clarify the space tem is building and how we frame it publicly.
Develop a distinctive point of view on markets, decentralisation, pricing and technology.
Ensure tem’s narrative compounds over time rather than reacting to news cycles.
Partner with leadership to shape the story, not just communicate it.
Build and evolve the brand
Own tem’s brand strategy and long-term identity evolution.
Elevate the visual and verbal system alongside tem’s VP/Creative Director.
Ensure the brand reflects our technological depth, ambition and edge we need to win.
Build a brand that feels native to technology.
Lead PR & external communications
Inform on proactive and reactive corporate communications.
Develop executive visibility strategy and positioning.
Operate confidently in politicised and regulatory environments.
Set brand intent for PR and advisory partners, making clear trade-offs and posture decisions.
Run the Content & Credibility Service
Act as Service Lead for Content & Credibility.
Set the strategy and operating model for how tem builds authority, across thought leadership, partnerships, PR and long-form storytelling.
Ensure content reflects real product capability and market understanding.
Build an always-on narrative engine that mirrors and elevates the wider energy conversation.
Lead brand partnerships
Identify and build partnerships that reinforce tem’s position in the ecosystem.
Ensure partnerships strengthen credibility and category leadership.
Mentor a high-performance team
This role has no direct reports. Your work will elevate a small but high-calibre team.
Set a high bar for writing, judgement and taste.
Create a culture of intelligent risk-taking and disciplined execution.
📊 Success Measures
A clear and distinctive category narrative that external stakeholders repeat back to us
tem is understood as a technology company shaping energy markets, not just another supplier
Strong executive presence and credibility across media, policy and industry forums
A brand that feels distinctive and culturally relevant in a traditionally conservative industry
Content & Credibility operating as a strategic service, not a reactive function
Leadership confidence in brand and comms judgement during complex or high-stakes moments
🎯 Requirements
Must haves
Significant experience (10yrs+) leading global brand and communications in a high-growth technology company
Experience navigating complex, visible or politically sensitive environments
Track record of shaping category narratives or repositioning companies through transition
Deep expertise of technology storytelling and product narrative
Experience running PR and corporate communications at scale
Comfort operating close to senior leadership and challenging constructively
High writing bar, across long-form narrative, executive comms and public statements
Commercial awareness and ability to tie brand strategy to growth and market leverage
Bonus points
Experience building brand in fintech, infrastructure, AI or regulated categories.
Experience working in highly scrutinised environments with regulatory complexity.
Track record of building comms systems that scale.
Obsessed with intersect of brand and AI
👤 Profile
We’re looking for someone who is: Visionary but commercially grounded. Comfortable taking smart risks. Opinionated with judgement. Intellectually rigorous. Comfortable in ambiguity. Able to operate at both strategic altitude and execution depth as an individual contributor/expert. You should be comfortable saying: “This is the wrong frame. This is the story we should be telling instead.” And backing it up.
🌍 Why This Role Matters
Energy is undergoing a structural shift.
Markets are decentralising.
Trust is fragile.
Technology is rewriting the rules.
Brand in this category cannot be passive.
It must be credible.
Distinctive.
Technologically literate.
Culturally aware.
And brave.
If you’ve built brands in complex, high-trust categories before and want to define one in energy, this is that opportunity.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.