Chief of Staff, Sunsave
AI & Automations
£70-100k
4-5 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
The UK’s first solar subscription
Job no longer available
The UK’s first solar subscription
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£70-100k
4-5 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Save every household meaningful money by putting power in their hands
Role
Who you are
- 4-7 years of professional experience, including time in a high-performing startup or scaleup (Seed-Series B); consulting, investment banking or PE alongside that is a plus
- Have built AI-powered tooling and automations that removed meaningful manual work, using Claude, LLM APIs, MCP integrations, or no-code/low-code platforms like Zapier, n8n or Make
- Use AI tools as a core part of your day-to-day work, and can move from idea to working prototype quickly
- Strong on data: advanced Excel, you independently analyse and end on a clear recommendation, and learning or using SQL doesn't scare you
- Communicate clearly, from written docs to presentations you'd put in front of investors or senior leadership
- Take ownership from problem to implementation: you spot what needs fixing, don't wait for perfect instructions, and work effectively across teams you don't manage
What the job involves
- Build alongside the teams: Sit with the people doing the work (sellers, ops, finance, marketing), map the process, redesign it where it's broken, and ship the fix yourself: a workflow in Zapier/n8n/Make, a script, or an LLM-powered tool
- Drive AI adoption: Building the automation is half the job; getting it used is the other half. Run the training cadence, track usage, measure hours saved and the underlying economics, and roll out what works. Research the latest trends, test new tools as they emerge and deliver the company AI strategy day to day
- Optimise funnel ops: Run the systems behind acquisition and onboarding, the CRM, the automations and multi-product workflows, the re-engagement and lifecycle journeys. QA how the funnel is built, find what's leaking, own lead triaging and scoring so the right leads reach the right people at the right time, and keep it all holding up as we scale
- Support the commercial engine: Be the data and execution engine behind our growth, including partnerships with some of the UK's biggest energy and consumer brands. You cut the numbers on what's driving performance, chase actions and partner deliverables to completion, and build the decks behind them
- (For more experienced candidates) - Multiply the founders:** Take work off the founders' plates and raise the quality bar on it, the board packs, investor updates and All Hands, the quarterly planning cycle, fundraising support, and whatever the highest-priority project of the moment happens to be. As we grow, help build the people and org foundations behind that, hiring and onboarding systems, and mapping who owns what
Application process
- Intro Call: Exploratory call to discuss your background and ask any initial questions about Sunsave
- Working Session: a live build session with us on a real problem, using whatever tools you'd normally reach for, followed by a short discussion of your approach. We'll share the problem area beforehand
- Culture & Fit Interview: in person meeting to discuss your experiences, motivations for working at Sunsave
- References
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sunsave is building what replaces your energy supplier. Energy companies sell power from a grid that gets more expensive every year. Sunsave believes the future of energy is decentralised, and they're building the company that brings that to the masses.
The national grid is creaking. Only 40% of a household's energy bill is actually used; the rest is grid cost, levies and policy costs. Even if wholesale energy prices drop, bills will keep increasing for decades. People are paying for a problem they didn't cause and can't control.
As energy decentralises, home energy is unbundling: a different company for the install, another for monitoring and maintenance, another for the financing, another for battery optimisation & trading. Sunsave bets that whoever puts it all back together into a single bill and a joined-up customer experience wins.
Founded in 2022, Sunsave lets people switch without paying anything upfront and offers an all-in-one package with kit, installation, finance and long-term protection. Battery optimisation and grid trading let customers charge when energy is cheap and sell it back when it's expensive, balancing the grid, earning money while they sleep and pushing their bill towards zero.
The traction shows their bet is paying off, with Sunsave raising a £113m Series A in 2025 and growing 3x that year. Growth is accelerating further in 2026, placing the company in the top 20 of Sifted's fastest-growing UK startups list two years running.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$17.7m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$7.4m
SEED
Total funding: $31.4m
Company benefits
- Private health insurance (incl. dependents under 18)
- Mental health support
- Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Team social events (remote & live)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Fortnightly company social events
- Quarterly team social outing
- Quarterly women's dinner/social
- Remote working home office budget
- Cycle to work scheme
Company values
- We're changing how people power their lives: We know that only doing what’s familiar or easy isn’t going to get us there, so we’re unashamedly ambitious and set audacious goals. We’re excited by the hard problems that come with accomplishing something difficult, and we do whatever it takes to get closer to achieving our mission
- We start with the customer: We’re here to help real people, so their voices are at the centre of everything we do. We know that we can’t create a hugely successful business without building things that people really love. So everything we do starts with us asking: ‘What’s best for the customer?’
- We make it happen: We act with urgency, constantly prioritising to make sure we channel our energy into what matters most. We believe every problem has a solution, and we take ownership to figure it out. When we don’t have perfect information it doesn’t slow us down: we act, learn and adapt
- We drive each other to be exceptional: We’re one team, made stronger by supporting each other, sharing openly, and holding ourselves and each other to the highest standards. We prize honest constructive feedback, and we value fresh perspectives and respectful differences of opinion. We win, lose and learn together, and don’t let silos or egos get in the way
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alick Dru
(Co-Founder)Ex VC Investor at SoftBank Vision Fund, ex Strategy Consultant at Strategy&, ex Founder at Spires, ex Founder at Tripr. Ex Oxford University.
Ben Graves
(Co-Founder)Ex PE Investor at EMK, ex Strategy Consultant at BCG, ex Customer Success at Triptease. Ex Oxford University.
People progressing
I joined Sunsave as an Operations Associate and was promoted to Senior Operations Associate after 9 months and to Ops Manager after a further 10 months. I now manage a full team.
I joined Sunsave as a Sales Specialist and was promoted to Sales Development Manager after 6 months. I now manage the Sales team as a whole.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sunsave
- One of our core values as a young start up is that there's strength in diversity.
- We believe that a team with different perspectives, backgrounds and life- experiences will always outperform a homogenous one.
- Practical ways we show our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team are:
- Flexibility of working hours and benefits to ensure employment suits different circumstances
- Enhanced parental leave
- Utilising software to test all job descriptions for unconscious bias
- Recruitment processes that are inclusive of our wider team and include an objectively measured skills based assessment wherever appropriate
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