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Chief of Staff (AU)
Amber Electric
People & HR, Operations
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
⚡ About Amber
Amber is a new way to buy and sell power, designed for a world powered by renewable energy. We give customers direct access to the real-time wholesale electricity price as it varies every 5 mins and the technology to shift more of their energy usage to the times when cheaper renewables are available in the grid. It’s a cheaper way to buy power, a smarter way to sell power, and the fastest way for Australia to reach 100% renewable energy.
We’re a clear category leader in Australia for home battery automation and are growing rapidly (over 80,000 customers). We’ve also recently expanded into licensing our core technology to utilities overseas, including a partnership with E.ON Next in the UK. We are backed by leading VCs (including Square Peg Capital from Australia and Environmental Technology Fund from UK), impact-focused investors and individuals, and corporate partners (including E.ON Next, Gentrack, and Commonwealth Bank).
We’re now at a critical moment in scaling as we disrupt a huge market for the better. You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 200, with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
💻 About the Role
Amber has entered its next critical phase of growth, where the way we run things needs to keep pace with the business itself. We've got real momentum — a growing customer base, a product that's genuinely changing how Australians use energy, and an expansion into Europe that's just getting started.
Our executive team is strong and our co-founder CEOs are deeply invested in where we're headed. But as we scale, we need more structure around how the leadership team operates — better rhythm, clearer cross-functional coordination, and someone who makes sure the important things don't get lost in the noise. We need someone to open up greater leverage for the leadership team and Amber’s strategic direction.
That's where this role comes in. As Chief of Staff, you'll be the connective tissue that keeps our leaders sharp, aligned, and moving. Part rhythm-setter, part trusted advisor, part whoever-needs-to-own-this person. You won’t run a department, but you’ll run the machine that makes every department and the leadership run better. You'll work across everything — cross-functional decisions, strategic priorities, meeting cadences — and you'll have unlimited access and context. The scope is deliberately open-ended. We want someone who'll figure out what this role needs to be at Amber, not someone who'll replicate what it looked like somewhere else.
We are hiring for 2 roles. 1 of the roles will be based in Melbourne, Australia. The other role is to be based in Europe permanently, but that person will spend 6 of their first 12 months at Amber based in Melbourne, Australia, and then move to Europe (ideally London, UK). If you are interested in moving to Europe in the next 12 months, let’s chat!
Key Responsibilities
- Own the executive team's operating rhythm — agendas, pre-reads, making sure decisions get made rather than deferred, and following up on the things people committed to but haven't done yet
- Be the connective tissue across functions — when something falls between two teams, or a decision needs more than one ELT member in the room, you'll see it and do something about it; whether that's facilitating the conversation, flagging it up, or owning it yourself
- Help our co-CEOs get the most out of their time — making sure they're well-prepared for the meetings that matter, protecting their focus during high-demand periods, and handling the things that don't need to reach them at all
- Allow information to flow better across the organisation — translating what's happening at the exec level into clear, consistent messages, and making sure they actually reach the people who need to hear them
- Form and lead the ELT+ group — our extended leadership layer that sits just below the executive team — setting the rhythm, keeping information flowing across it, and helping it become a genuinely useful part of how Amber runs
- Pick up whatever needs a trusted owner — new initiatives, time-sensitive projects, things that don't fit neatly anywhere else
What We're Looking For
- You've spent time (4+ years) in a fast-moving and high-pressure environment — ideally in a Chief of Staff role (1-2 years), or in strategy or business operations, where you were genuinely part of the leadership team, not just adjacent to it
- Perhaps you’ve worked in an industry such as start-ups, tech, VCs, consulting, investment banking, etc.
- You may have a strong academic background — one that has set you up with the foundational knowledge you need to speak organisational language.
- You've seen a company scale — you understand what breaks when an organisation grows quickly, and you've got instincts for how to fix it before it becomes a problem
- You're a strong communicator. You write clearly, speak plainly, and know when to say less. You can hold your own in a room full of experienced people without needing to be the loudest voice in it
- You're comfortable with ambiguity — this role doesn't come with a fixed set of deliverables and the scope will evolve. Some weeks you'll have a clear agenda; other weeks you'll be making it up as you go, and that should feel energising, not stressful
- You're a low-ego operator. You'll have a lot of context and access, but the role works best when you're focused on the team winning rather than being seen to win
- You've got enough commercial and financial literacy to engage credibly on business decisions — you don't need to be a CFO, but you should be able to read a board pack and ask the right questions
Benefits
- We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and a great culture of people who love coming to work to build a better world.
- You’d be a part of a rapidly growing team of over 200 with expertise across energy, technology, marketing, and operations.
- Be part of a growing technology start-up that will shape the future of household renewable energy use.
- Flexible working hours with provision for regular work from home arrangements and a central hub in Melbourne CBD.
- Equitable gender-neutral parental leave policies.
- An external Employee Assistance Plan for mental health support.
- Competitive salary and shares in Amber.
- Annual Learning & Development budget to support your personal growth.
This is a full-time role to be based ideally from Melbourne, but we are also open to considering the right candidate anywhere within Australia.
💰 Salary range is between $170k and $200k base per annum and is quoted excluding superannuation. All salaried roles at Amber include employee stock options over and above the base salary and superannuation.
We have an office in the Melbourne CBD, where we work flexibly between the office and home. For those based in Sydney, catch up in a co-working space in the city every now and then, and rest of the locations in Australia work from home. We expect to remain Melbourne based but maintain flexibility between the office and WFH.
🌈 If this kind of work gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We're open to all backgrounds and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
✍️ How to Apply
Our hiring process:
As this is a critical strategic role for Amber, we plan to run a rigorous (but flexible) process that will likely include some or all of the following:
- A screening call with our talent team.
- An early call with one of the Co-CEOs (Chris and Dan) about the role and a high-level feel for fit.
- A take-home case study to anchor interview conversations.
- A follow up interview with 2 people from our leadership team
- A final interview with one or both of the co-CEOs
We promise to be respectful of your time as an applicant while trying to be as thorough as possible in finding the right fit for our team.
Applications will be accepted only from candidates already based in Australia, preferably Melbourne with full working rights!
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted promptly. All other applicants will also be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.
No recruitment agencies please. We've got this. Thank you!