Director, Strategy
Portland, OR$200k - $325kfull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Director, Strategy at Panthalassa (renewable energy and ocean technology) focused on capital formation, investor relations, market views, and developing the company’s financing strategy and external communications.
Responsibilities
- Investor Relations: Manage investor relationships between financings. Write regular updates, maintain the data room, and run diligence processes, and keep information flowing to financial partners at the appropriate cadence for each relationship.
- Capital Formation: Work with leadership to set financing strategy, round size, structure, process, and timing, then help drive each transaction from preparation through close.
- Financial Modeling: Build and own models for financings, operating scenarios, and capitalization. Test assumptions and review work produced by others.
- Writing: Produce investor letters, board materials, memos, one-pagers, and correspondence with exceptionally high standards for clarity, accuracy, and voice.
- Presentations: Develop decks that pair analytical rigor with strong visual judgment to explain complex technical, financial, and strategic plans.
- Market Intelligence: Track relevant markets, companies, investors, and public debate. Turn what you learn into views and recommendations the team can use.
- AI-Assisted Research: Use AI extensively to accelerate research and strengthen analysis. Check sources, test the reasoning, and edit the output to the standard expected of work sent under your name.
- Company Representation: Represent Panthalassa in meetings with investors and partners and at conferences and events.
- Team Development: Help recruit, manage, and develop strategy hires as the function expands.
Qualifications
- At least four years of relevant experience in startups, venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, or a comparable analytical environment.
- Expert command of Excel and PowerPoint, plus ease with Google Sheets and Figma.
- Excellent writing and a willingness to share samples.
- Fluency with financing structures, cap tables, valuation, and scenario modeling.
- Deep working knowledge of AI infrastructure and energy, including the major companies, investors, technologies, and policy debates.
- Experience working with investors, partners, or colleagues across countries and time zones.
- A record of taking responsibility for outcomes under tight deadlines, incomplete information, and high stakes.
Skills
Required:Investor RelationsFinancial ModelingWriting & CommunicationMarket IntelligenceAI-Assisted Research
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Health insurance (company pays 100% of gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Dental insurance (100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Vision insurance (100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Disability insurance (company-paid policy)
- Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts (401(k), health FSA, dependent care FSA)
- Relocation assistance to facilitate move to Portland (if needed)
Last updated Oct 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Panthalassa
Go where the energy is
We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.
Planetary-scale energyclean energy platformrenewable energyocean energypilot deploymentpublic-benefit corporation
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