M1 Brand (Brand Marketing Manager)

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. We exist 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 Albion, 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 an M1 Brand Manager. This role exists to build and run the team and operating system that delivers tem’s brand execution across the company. You will lead the team responsible for turning tem’s brand strategy and narrative into consistent, high-quality work across the moments that matter. Your job is to ensure Brand execution is reliable, high standard, and scalable as tem grows. You will manage Brand ICs and Experts, deploy resources to the highest-impact priorities, and establish the systems that allow teams across tem to move quickly without losing clarity or quality. You will report immediately into the Chief Growth Officer, and in the future an incoming VP. This is an M1 role at tem. Managers at tem are accountable for people performance, hiring, and resource deployment for their scope.

Scope and leadership bar (M1 at tem)

As an M1, you are a first-line people leader responsible for team performance and execution reliability. You are accountable for:

• Performance management: Set clear expectations for Brand ICs and Experts. Provide coaching, feedback, and development. Make performance decisions that maintain a high bar.
• Hiring and bar-raising: Partner with the CGO on hiring plans. Ensure new hires strengthen the team’s craft and judgement.
• Resource deployment: Allocate team capacity to the highest-impact work. Make trade-offs explicit when demand exceeds capacity.
• Operating rhythm: Establish clear workflows and cadences for Brand execution. Ensure positioning and brand is anchored across all teams and engines of the business.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the brand 'execution + content' team. Manage the performance and development of Brand ICs & Es. Coach writing quality, message clarity, and brand judgement. Set clear standards for what “ship-ready” work looks like across design and content. Partner with the CGO on hiring plans, team design, and bar raising. Partner with our future Creative Director and VP of Brand & Comms on org design and craft direction.
• Own tem's content system (strategy to production). Ensure content is clearly owned across priority areas (web, lifecycle, sales enablement, exec comms, launches). Build the content operating model: briefs, editorial standards, planning, reviews, and approvals. Ensure the team can produce high-quality copy at speed without relying on you as the primary writer. Establish tone of voice guidance and message architecture that makes writing scalable.
• Run the execution operating system. Own briefs, prioritisation, reviews, and delivery workflows. Establish a weekly cadence for intake, reviews, and retros. Ensure stakeholders know how to engage Brand effectively. Maintain quality control without becoming a bottleneck. Introduce and embed AI-enabled workflows that increase speed and quality (without lowering craft).
• Deploy resources to the highest-impact work. Allocate capacity across launches, web, sales collateral, company communications, and content. Ensure the most important work receives the strongest attention. Make prioritisation decisions visible across stakeholders.
• Build and evolve brand standards and systems (not maintain them). Build the standards for tem’s visual and verbal identity, and make them easy to follow. Create the system for guidelines, templates, and toolkits to stay current through ownership and cadence. Define review and approval workflows that protect quality without slowing teams down. Coach ICs and stakeholders to the standard, and intervene only when needed.
• Enable stronger credibility work across tem. Partner with Product, Growth, and Commercial teams. Encourage early collaboration by making Brand support efficient.
• Raise the bar for quality and taste. Be a consistent voice for clarity and strong storytelling. Challenge work that is off-brand or poorly framed. Help tem’s brand feel technologically literate and confident.

What good looks like

• Team performance improves over time (clear expectations, regular feedback, growth, and performance decisions that maintain a high bar).
• Hiring raises the bar (role clarity, strong assessments, and new hires who strengthen craft and judgement).
• Execution is predictable because the system works (brief quality improves, prioritisation is clear, reviews are effective, and stakeholders know how to engage).
• Content is clearly owned and scalable (message architecture and tone of voice guidance are in place, and the team can ship quality copy without dependency on you).
• Stakeholders trust Brand judgement and involve the team earlier.
• Brand work compounds through reusable assets and clear standards.
• AI is embedded as a team capability that increases speed and quality without lowering craft.

Requirements

Must haves:

• Experience managing brand, creative, or content teams.
• Strong judgement across brand execution and messaging.
• Ability to run multiple workstreams through a team while maintaining quality.
• Clear standards for what high-quality work looks like.
• Strong stakeholder management in fast-moving environments.
• Systems mindset - you improve how work gets done, not just the outputs.
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate output while maintaining quality.

Bonus points:

• Experience in fintech, infrastructure, AI, or regulated industries.
• Experience supporting executive communications or major launches.
• Experience building brand systems (guidelines, templates, review processes).
• Experience working with agencies or freelancers.

Interview process

We move fast. Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer. Intro call with Talent, 30 minutes. Hiring Manager interview, 60 minutes. Practical exercise, 60 to 90 minutes. Culture Add interview, 45 minutes.

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.