Associate, Corporate Venturing

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Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we're all about propelling the next generation of leaders forward. We are driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers' lives easier-helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. To do this, we need creative and talented people to join our company.

The Associate, Corporate Venturing, will support the Manager, Corporate Venturing to maximize the strategic value of NRG's Corporate Venture Capital ("CVC") fund by enhancing connectivity between NRG's external Corporate Venture partner and NRG's business units. The Associate will play a critical role in supporting and expanding NRG's CVC program by absorbing existing operational responsibilities and owning net-new expansion initiatives to increase the impact of the CVC fund. The Associate will enhance existing CVC operations by tracking fund impact, improving processes, managing high-priority stakeholders and developing fund deliverables. Additionally, the Associate will be responsible for actively identifying, constructing and executing on new opportunities to expand the program's reach.

The Associate will work regularly with internal stakeholders, such as the CVC Working team, subject matter experts, and business units, while also interacting with external parties such as NRG's CVC partner, startups, investors and other members of the startup ecosystem. Overall, the Associate's goal will be to support CVC in its pursuit of program KPIs by generating and providing insights that support potential investments, start-up partners, pilots, learnings, or other valuable fund programs, initiatives and activities.

This role will report into the Manager of Corporate Venturing, a member of the Corporate Strategy team's Discovery and Insights group. The Discovery and Insights team sits on the cutting edge of technologies and markets to help NRG look ahead to the future. The broader Corporate Strategy team also engages in early-stage and emerging opportunity identification, investment and testing to promote sustained value creation and competitive advantage.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities :

• Generate high-quality market intelligence through :

Startup-specific memos and updates

Ad-hoc materials such as CVC program overviews, introduction decks, board materials and presentations related to specific, high-priority investment or commercial opportunities

Essential Duties / Responsibilities (cont) :

Working Conditions :

Minimum Requirements :

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M / F / Vet / Disability. Level, Title and / or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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