We’re on a mission to drive the worldwide transition to a inexperienced power system, sooner and extra affordably. Within the 4 years since we launched, we’re on the proper path – we energy almost two million UK properties with inexperienced electrical energy, and our modern power tech platform Kraken is contracted to help 17 million clients around the globe. We have now over 1,000 superior folks in our staff throughout places of work in London, Warwick, Brighton, and Leicester, with extra in Australia, the USA and Germany as effectively.
However we need to make a ‘large inexperienced dent’ on the earth, and meaning we have to develop even sooner. We need to make the UK the Silicon Valley of inexperienced power. As reported by Bloomberg, we’re creating 1000 new jobs within the UK this 12 months – the tip of the iceberg that would be the UK’s future inexperienced economic system.
In case you care about doing proper by clients, and dealing relentlessly to make the world greener, we’d sincerely love you to use.
My title is Olivia, and I’m one in all Octopus’ in-house recruiters.
For the reason that lockdown started in March, we’ve welcomed over 200 new folks into our enterprise.
Within the course of we’ve learnt increasingly more about what makes an utility stand out. I wished to share some recommendation on what we like to see after we’re on the lookout for new Octopus teammates.
What we search for in Octopus Staff
Earlier than your expertise and expertise, we’re on the lookout for the proper of individual – the sort who’s totally captivated with our mission and who thrives working how we work. Some issues to learn about our staff:
- We’re a tech firm, main the renewable power revolution. We’re sensible, agile and ahead considering, and we frequently push our trade into the long run by means of tech.
- We’re mission-obsessed. Throughout the enterprise, we’re all relentless working to rework power and drive decarbonisation.
- We put clients on the coronary heart of what we do. At each degree, and in each operate of our enterprise, we’re right here to do proper by clients initially.
- We belief folks to be grown-ups, and allow them to thrive doing what they do greatest. We don’t rent to fill small gaps in our features – we discover sensible folks, level them in the proper course and provides them excessive ranges of autonomy to do what they’re nice at. To get a greater sense of the type of folks and roles you may come throughout right here, why not *meet* some members of our ever-growing staff, like Wenye (Again-Finish Developer), Zoisa (Director of Octopus Power for Enterprise), Ruby (Operations Supervisor for Kraken Applied sciences), and Fiona (CEO of Electrical Autos)!
- Everybody in Octopus has fairness share choices – everybody at Octopus Power Group shares in its successes as a result of we’re all working collectively to construct it.
The easiest way to grasp us, and the tradition at Octopus, is to listen to immediately from the man that constructed the corporate from the bottom up – our founder, Greg. He explains that Octopus is constructed like a ‘dry stone wall’, the place every worker – every constructing block – has their very own distinctive form which we fastidiously match collectively (fairly than forcing all people into the identical mould). You possibly can hearken to him and our Director of Product and Advertising and marketing Rebecca discuss extra about Octopus tradition in our podcast, ‘Inside Octopus Power’.
Reply our questions
It’s all the time tremendous useful to grasp why you are making use of to work at Octopus. We ask all types of questions all through the interview course of to assist us get a way of your considering. There’s one query particularly we ask each potential staff member once they apply for a job:
Why does Octopus Power stand out to you?
This actually provides us good perception into the way you’d work in our staff, so please do attempt to reply this and another questions we’ve requested within the job spec.
What our course of seems to be like
For all our reside alternatives, as soon as we’ve reviewed your reply, we’ll then check out your CV and another related info. In case you’re a Designer, we’ll take a look at your portfolio, or when you’re a developer, we’ll take a look at your GitHub profile, for instance.
In case you don’t see something on our careers web page however need to share your particulars as a speculative candidate we all the time welcome this too! The easiest way to do that is by following the under hyperlink 👇
What occurs subsequent
When you’ve utilized, we’ll check out your reply to our questions, in addition to your CV and another related info. In case you’re a designer, we’ll take a look at your portfolio, or when you’re a developer, we’ll take a look at your GitHub profile, for instance.
We get again to all our candidates (whether or not we predict you’re proper for the position or not) inside two weeks of your submission.
We’ll then chat on the cellphone
If every little thing up to now has gone effectively, we’ll provide you with a hoop. This is a chance for us to get to know one another, to speak about methods of working, your experiences and inform you extra about working at Octopus. Every position has a bespoke hiring course of which we’ll additionally set out on this name.
We will’t wait to listen to from you!
