Director, Finance and Strategy
Panthalassa
Location
Portland, Oregon (hybrid/remote possible with up to 50% travel to Portland)
Type
Full-time
Posted
Oct 18, 2025
Compensation
USD 250000 – 320000
Mission
What you will drive
- Craft decks with clear, digestible narratives that seamlessly incorporate robust financial projections, significant technical complexity, and multi-phased global strategic plans.
- Produce in-depth reports on the AI-compute, data-center, and clean-energy markets; turn insights into decision-ready memos.
- Draft communications at a high volume: emails, one-pagers, follow-up analyses, and more.
- Maintain a robust CRM of key financial and strategic partners, and help to build critical relationships that lead to long-term, high-value deals.
Impact
The difference you'll make
This role helps commercialize frontier ocean energy technology to capture civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy, contributing to a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
- 5+ years in venture capital, investment banking, high-growth infrastructure or energy tech startups, project-finance advisory, strategy consulting, or similar.
- Expert-level Excel (advanced formulas, macros a plus) and investor-grade presentation skills.
- Demonstrated "extreme ownership" and comfort with tight deadlines, ambiguous data, and senior-level scrutiny.
- Exceptional written communication; able to condense complex ideas into crisp bullets and headlines, and flex communication style for various consumers of documents.
Benefits
What's in it for you
- Cash compensation of $250,000 - $320,000, depending on experience
- Equity in the company
- Flexible paid time off
- Health insurance (company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Dental insurance (company pays 100% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
- Vision insurance (company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Disability insurance (company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
- Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
- Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed)
About
Inside Panthalassa
Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans, focusing on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.