Entrepreneur-in-Residence / Chief Executive Officer, Enerpass
About 1882 Energy Ventures
1882 Energy Ventures is a venture studio accelerating the global energy transition by building and scaling startups that decentralize energy systemsreshaping how homes, businesses, mobility, and networks are powered. By advancing decentralization, we drive decarbonization, enhance energy efficiency, and fuel long-term economic growth and development in the Philippines and beyond.
The Venture
Enerpass is a platform-first last-mile operating system for decentralized energy. We digitize and standardize job-matching, installation workflows, QA/QC, and payments for solar, batteries, EV charging, and other distributed energy systems.
Enerpass is designed to scale execution, turning fragmented installers, EPCs, and field teams into a reliable, repeatable delivery network. The goal is to become the default platform powering last-mile delivery for decentralized energy across Southeast Asia.
About the Role
As the founding CEO of Enerpass, you will build and scale a platform business, not just a
services company. Your core mandate is to turn a fragmented, operationally heavy market into a scalable, repeatable system.
You will own platform strategy, GTM, network growth, and monetization. You will ensure
Enerpass achieves platform scale by driving network effects, standardizing workflows, and building repeatable onboarding for customers and installers.
This role requires a CEO who has built and scaled platforms before, understands how to drive adoption on both sides of a marketplace, and knows how to move from pilots to thousands of transactions without breaking operations.
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Vision and Scaling Strategy:
- Define Enerpass as a scalable platform with clear network effects, not a bespoke operations business.
- Design growth loops for installers, EPCs, and developers that drive repeat usage and platform lock-in.
- Set metrics for platform scale such as active jobs, repeat customers, installer utilization, and transaction throughput.
Go To Market and Network Growth:
- Build and execute a GTM strategy that scales both sides of the platform.
- Establish partnerships that accelerate user acquisition and geographic expansion.
- Drive platform adoption across multiple decentralized energy verticals.
Product, Workflow and Market Fit:
- Work with Product and Engineering to standardize installation workflows into reusable digital modules.
- Ensure the platform reduces cycle time, improves quality, and lowers coordination costs at scale.
- Prioritize features that support high-volume, repeatable execution.
Operational Scale through Systems, Not Headcount:
- Build lightweight operating processes that enable scale without manual intervention.
- Ensure field operations are codified into software, checklists, and verification flows.
- Avoid custom implementations that prevent platform scalability.
Team, Culture and Execution:
- Hire and lead a founding team with strong product, platform, and growth capabilities.
- Establish a culture focused on speed, learning, and scalable execution.
- Align incentives and KPIs around platform adoption and throughput.
Stakeholder and Venture Leadership:
- Represent Enerpass to investors, partners, and ecosystem leaders.
- Work closely with 1882EV to leverage shared resources and venture-building support.
- Communicate a clear platform narrative internally and externally.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and scaling platform or marketplace businesses, ideally in infrastructure-heavy or fragmented industries.
- Strong understanding of how to drive network effects, platform adoption, and repeat usage.
- Experience taking platforms from early pilots to high transaction volumes.
- Ability to balance product, GTM, and operations without defaulting to bespoke services.
- Strong commercial instincts and partnership-building experience.
- Comfort operating in early-stage environments with ambiguity and fast iteration.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Passion for decentralized energy and infrastructure platforms.
What Sets Us Apart
- Deep Industry Expertise Leverage our extensive knowledge of the Philippine energy ecosystem, regulatory landscape, and key stakeholders.
- Powerful Network Gain access to venture capital, private equity, regulatory bodies, power sector leaders, business communities, and consumer groups.
- Mission-Driven Impact Be part of a transformative movement that unlocks financing for DERs, accelerating the shift to clean energy.
- Innovative Environment Work on cutting-edge technology solutions that enable sustainable energy investments.
- Global Reach Collaborate with leading investors, developers, policymakers, and ecosystem partners across the energy and finance sectors.
- Leadership & Growth Help shape our technology strategy and culture as a founding leader.
- Flexibility Enjoy a remote/hybrid work setup, with opportunities to travel across Southeast Asia and beyond
