About Planted

Energy is the binding constraint on human progress. Solar and storage are the lowest cost sources of new generation, but the conventional project delivery model has not changed in 30 years and deployment cannot keep pace with demand.

Planted is turning power plants from projects into products. Our software turns raw land into a build-ready power plant in minutes instead of months. Our hardware delivers twice the energy on every hectare. Our robots put steel in the ground so output scales with production lines instead of headcount.

We're expanding our team of ambitious, curious, and hands‑on engineers and operators who want to accelerate that transition. Come take ownership of large parts of our product, company, and business development as we help power the world with 100% clean and abundant energy.

We don't wait for abundance. We build it.

The Team: You will join a group at the intersection of deep tech and massive physical infrastructure. Our engineering core brings robotics and automation DNA from SpaceX and Tesla, working directly alongside energy infrastructure experts. We are led by repeat founders with a successful prior exit (Cogenra to SunPower). Planted is backed by leading investors in energy and Physical AI, including Piva Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, RA Capital, Gigascale Capital, and Google.

About The Role

We are hiring a Growth Lead to build Planted's business in Australia. You will be our first person in the market representing the company.

Australian owners already buy high‑density solar. What no one has put in front of them is a high‑density system that robots install, at our cost and schedule. Labour is expensive and scarce on regional sites, structural steel is expensive,



and modules are a smaller share of installed cost than in the US, all of which reward putting more panels on less steel with fewer hours in the field. Mining and off‑grid load in the west and the data centre buildout in the east both want power faster than conventional delivery can produce it.

We are not the EPC in Australia, and that defines the job. We supply the array layout and plant‑level design support, the structural balance of system, the field robots, and the training that makes deployment more productive. The EPC designs and procures the electrical scope, builds the project, and holds the end‑customer contract. The work is not only expanding the market and selling projects. It is building the channel that sells them, and the terms that help our partners come back with their next one.

You will report to our Director of Growth and Strategy in California, and in practice you will run the market. In your first week you pick up a live pipeline and active EPC, developer, and industrial conversations, while certification, steel supply, and machine compliance move in parallel. You will set your own priorities, pull in US support when a deal needs it, and make the final call without waiting on a time zone difference. You will not be starting from zero, and you will not be starting from finished. Once a deal is signed, you hand delivery to Planted's field technical advisors and the EPC,



and go win the next portfolio.

Salary range for this position is AUD $200,000–$270,000 base, plus superannuation, performance incentive, and share options. Placement within the range depends on experience and skills. The target experience for the position is 7+ years. Sydney preferred. Melbourne or Brisbane considered.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Establish the Australian market. Build and work the target list across developers, IPPs, EPCs, and mining and industrial buyers, and own every chance from first conversation to signed agreement. Decide where our capacity goes. Be honest when the answer is no or not yet, and keep the relationship progressing towards more megawatts.
- Build the channel, then the portfolio. Our route to market today runs through local EPCs. Find them, train them on what our system does to their labour curve, and structure the pricing, scope splits, volume commitments, and machine allocation that enable them to bring us their next wave of projects rather than to their incumbent supplier. A first project is the entry point, not the outcome. Convert proven delivery into frameworks and capacity reservations.
- Techno‑economic case. Build and defend the comparison that wins the project: our robot‑installed, high‑density fixed‑tilt system against the legacy single‑axis tracker their engineering team already trusts, and against the high‑density systems already selling here. Yield, installed cost, labour hours, schedule, O&M;, LCOE, grounded in Australian benchmarks and site conditions. Owner's engineers will take it apart, and it needs to hold.
- Clear the path. Every deal raises questions you will not personally answer: str

📌 Growth Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Planted Solar
📍 Sydney