Head of Strategy & Corporate Development

About Rhythm Energy

Rhythm is a renewable energy and technology company empowering you to take control of your budget and your footprint. We combine energy market expertise with technology, design, and data science to create best-in-class products and services that are simple, delightful, and seamlessly integrated with the rhythm of your life. Our mission is to upend the energy status quo by setting a new standard of service excellence and customer partnership.

We are a mission-driven, results-oriented group of engineers, business people, designers and artists who love solving tough problems, all while making a positive impact on our communities.

About the role

Rhythm is seeking a Head of Strategy & Corporate Development to serve as a senior strategic partner to the CEO and executive team. This person will help shape Rhythm’s medium- and long-term strategy, lead corporate development and strategic partnership activity, and drive the operating cadence required to turn strategic priorities into measurable results.

This is not a traditional “deck-and-analysis” strategy role, nor is it a purely transactional corporate development role. The right person will be equally comfortable developing a market-entry thesis, building an investment case, leading diligence on an acquisition target, preparing board materials, and driving cross-functional initiatives from idea to execution.

Rhythm’s next phase of growth will come from scaling the core retail platform while expanding into adjacent opportunities: new markets, new customer segments, C&I, partnerships, VPP / behind-the-meter offerings, AI-enabled operating leverage, and additional inorganic opportunities. This role will act as a portfolio manager of those strategic bets, helping the company prioritize capital, management attention, and execution capacity against the highest-value opportunities.

Why this role matters

Rhythm has reached a scale where strategy, capital allocation, and execution discipline are increasingly intertwined. The company has proven its ability to grow profitably, integrate acquired assets, and expand across markets. The ideal candidate is a high-ownership, analytically rigorous, commercially minded operator who can move seamlessly between strategy, finance, M&A, partnerships, and cross-functional execution.

What you’ll do

• Partner with the CEO and C-suite to define, refresh, and communicate Rhythm’s multi-year strategy.
• Translate market, regulatory, customer, technology, and capital markets trends into concrete strategic choices.
• Own Rhythm’s strategic planning process, including annual and multi-year planning, strategic priorities, company-level OKRs, and executive alignment.
• Act as a portfolio manager across Rhythm’s major growth initiatives, balancing core, adjacent, and transformational opportunities, with the primary focus being expansion of enterprise value
• Develop investment theses for new markets, new products, new channels, customer segments, partnerships, and business models.
• Build structured frameworks for evaluating strategic opportunities, including market attractiveness, competitive positioning, value creation potential, risk-adjusted return, integration complexity, and execution capacity.
• Help the executive team make crisp go / no-go / pause decisions on major initiatives.

• Lead corporate development efforts end-to-end, including target identification, sourcing, screening, valuation, diligence, negotiation support, approval materials, and post-close integration planning.
• Build and manage a proactive M&A and partnership pipeline aligned with Rhythm’s strategic priorities.
• Evaluate acquisition, joint venture, and partnership opportunities across retail energy and adjacent markets, including distributed energy and technology-enabled adjacencies.
• Partner closely with the CFO on valuation, capital structure, financing alternatives, return thresholds, and transaction economics.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Operations, Commercial, Supply, Technology, and CX leaders during diligence and execution.
• Own the strategic rationale and integration thesis…