Job description
About the role
This role is for someone who can drive growth, generate demand, and build a repeatable marketing engine as Axle scales. You'll be our first Growth Marketing hire and be responsible for shaping our growth marketing strategy from the ground up, experimenting with channels, campaigns and messaging to find what works and scale it.
You'll help Axle reach the right customers, bring our technology to market, and turn awareness into measurable commercial growth for our direct to consumer business.
We're looking for someone who combines commercial instinct with analytical rigour and creative thinking. You'll move quickly, take ownership, and work closely with our commercial, product and leadership teams to turn ambitious growth targets into results.
What you will be doing
- Building and executing targeted campaigns that reach priority audiences, generate qualified leads and contribute directly to user growth.
- Developing positioning, messaging, customer segmentation and launch strategies for new propositions, markets and customer segments.
- Testing and growing marketing channels, partnerships and campaigns to identify repeatable, cost-effective ways to acquire customers.
- Translating complex energy and technology concepts into clear messaging and content that resonates with our target audiences.
- Tracking acquisition, conversion and pipeline performance, using data and experimentation to improve marketing effectiveness and maximise commercial impact.
- Manage our community engagement in social forums (e.g. Facebook groups, Reddit etc.)
What we're looking for
- Experience in a B2C growth marketing role.
- You're data-driven but practical. You run experiments and learn from the results, but also know when there isn't enough data and you need to trust your judgement.
- You use AI tools to work smarter across marketing, from researching audiences and analysing data to building reports, automating workflows and creating content.
- You're scrappy and hands-on. You test ideas quickly, find ways to make a budget go further and get stuck into whatever needs doing.
- You're comfortable building from scratch. This is our first growth marketing hire, so you'll be shaping our approach, tools and processes as you go.
Nice to have
- Experience with product analytics tools such as PostHog.
- Experience with paid social, referral programmes or community-led growth.
Benefits
A meaningful slice of equity in Axle, alongside a competitive salary. We operate with a deliberately flat structure. We aim to keep pay equitable across the company, with a 1:1 median ratio between founder and team compensation.
The opportunity to directly shape the future of energy markets and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world.
Bi-annual retreats to strengthen team connection & shared purpose.
Enhanced parental leave to support you through life's meaningful moments.
Bupa private healthcare from day one of employment.
Hybrid working - We have a dog-friendly office in Farringdon. To maximize collaboration, we ask that you spend 2-3 days a week in the office.
We are extremely keen to build a diverse company, and we're particularly eager to hear from candidates who don't fit the traditional role stereotypes. If you're motivated by our mission, please do reach out, even if you feel you might not 'check all the boxes'.
Interview process
- Initial interview
- Take-home exercise
- Final interview (in-person)
- Offer, references, and welcome to the team!
Pay & benefits
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About this role
About Axle Energy
Company Overview
Axle Energy Ltd
London, United Kingdom
2023
Approximately 50 employees in London, United Kingdom (source: axle.energy)
What They Do
Axle Energy is focused on building the infrastructure for a decarbonised energy system by developing advanced energy flexibility software that connects distributed energy resources such as EV chargers, home batteries, solar systems, and heat pumps in customers' homes (source: axle.energy). Their platform enables households and asset owners to participate in electricity flexibility and grid services markets, which were traditionally accessible mainly to larger energy users, thereby democratizing access to these markets (source: welcometothejungle.com). Axle’s software offers multiple operating modes, including one that pays customers £1 per kWh exported when the grid requires support, and a fully optimized mode that uses tariff data and usage patterns to minimize energy bills by intelligently managing battery charging and exporting (source: youtube.com). The company supports popular hardware brands such as Fox, Give Energy, Sig Energy, Solax, and Solace, ensuring broad compatibility without requiring customers to change their energy suppliers (source: youtube.com). Currently focused on the UK market, Axle Energy is actively expanding into other European countries, leveraging lessons learned from its UK operations to scale its platform internationally (source: youtube.com).
Projects & Track Record
Axle Energy has demonstrated significant impact through its activation of over 2,000 home batteries on 1 December during a critical grid event, helping to keep fossil fuels off the grid and returning more than £26,000 to battery owners (source: axle.energy). This event, described as the "grid's hour of need," involved linking these batteries to flexibility markets including the Dynamic Flexibility Service (DFS), showcasing Axle’s ability to mobilize distributed energy resources at scale (source: axle.energy). The company’s platform currently connects over 15,000 flexible assets, reflecting rapid growth and adoption of its technology (source: welcometothejungle.com). Axle is actively preparing to open projects across various European countries throughout the year, using its UK experience as a foundation for broader continental expansion (source: youtube.com).
Recent Developments
In August 2024, Axle Energy successfully closed a $9 million seed funding round to fuel its European growth ambitions, following an earlier $1.6 million seed round in June 2023 (source: welcometothejungle.com). The company has been actively hiring in London across multiple functions including engineering, commercial, customer support, and people operations, signaling a strong growth trajectory and scaling efforts (source: accel.com). In early 2026, job postings highlighted the need to build a repeatable commercial motion to expand customer adoption and commercialize flexibility at scale (source: accel.com). Additionally, salary guidance for software engineering roles ranged from £60k to £120k with equity options, reflecting competitive compensation in a hybrid work environment (source: climatetechlist.com).
Working There
Axle Energy offers a dynamic startup environment headquartered in London, with roles spanning engineering, commercial, operations, customer support, and people functions (source: axle.energy). The company emphasizes a mission-driven culture focused on building infrastructure for the decarbonised energy system, with software designed to significantly reduce CO2 emissions and energy costs (source: axle.energy). Employees benefit from a fast-paced atmosphere that prioritizes rapid product shipping and scaling a repeatable commercial engine, reflecting the company’s growth stage and climate-tech focus (source: climatetechlist.com). The company’s hiring activity and job descriptions indicate a collaborative culture with opportunities to contribute across multiple early-stage functions within a single city location (source: ashbyhq.com).