We are a dedicated recruitment partner for grid-scale battery storage — focused on the optimisation, trading, data and platform talent that turns a live asset into revenue. Xist4 runs specialist recruitment desks by sector, and grid-scale storage and optimisation is all this one does.
The capability that decides whether your assets perform — optimisation, trading, forecasting, and the data and platform behind them — sits in a narrow pool. The people who have done it inside storage are too few to be your only route.
And the rest are not where you would expect. They sit in energy trading, the utilities, infrastructure software and cyber — which is usually where the salary band and the brief quietly miss. You think you are competing with other operators; often you are competing with a trading desk. Because this desk works only in grid-scale storage and optimisation, we know where those people sit, what they cost and what it takes to move them.
When one person holds your site, your data, your market position and your commercial model in their head, that is business exposure. If they leave, the problem lands on top of the performance problem, not instead of it. Part of our job is helping you build a team that is not one resignation away from trouble.
A storage asset earns its return once it is live, not when it is built. Availability, dispatch and degradation land straight in the P&L — downtime is lost revenue, not a maintenance ticket. The people who protect that number, in optimisation, data and platform reliability, are the hardest of all to find.
We recruit the disciplines we know best, applied to the live-asset world — from the optimisation and trading layer through the data and platform behind it, up to leadership.
Optimisation and dispatch analysts who run dispatch strategy, stack revenue across services and model how a live asset bids against volatile signals — the people who turn an installed asset into earned revenue.
Data scientists and ML engineers building the price-forecasting, bidding and dispatch-optimisation models, and the degradation analytics that protect the asset as a depreciating financial instrument.
Data engineers and architects building the real-time pipelines that turn operational and market data into a decision fast enough to act on, reliably and at scale.
Platform, SRE, DataOps and MLOps engineers who keep live-asset platforms and models running, because downtime here is lost revenue, not just a ticket.
Security engineers who protect grid-connected, remotely controlled assets — critical infrastructure with a widening attack surface — and the data and control systems behind them.
Heads of Optimisation, Trading, Data and Software, and the CTOs, CDOs and CISOs who set the roadmap and build the teams that make a portfolio perform.
We recruit using the titles the grid-scale storage market actually uses. The specialism comes from the asset and the market, not a bolt-on label.
They understood the optimisation role better than the generalist agencies we had tried. The shortlist was short, relevant and quick.
Straight, honest conversations from the first call. They put me forward for roles that actually fit, not just whatever was open.
They got the brief and the sequence right, and kept every candidate engaged through a slow internal process. That is rarer than it should be.
Let’s start building your winning team – contact us now to begin.
Whether you need to fill a hard optimisation, data or platform vacancy, or want to sharpen your brief before going to market, we can help.
We work with operators, developers, optimisers and route-to-market firms to fill the optimisation, data, platform and leadership roles that decide whether an asset performs.
Grid-scale storage is a small, fast-moving world. The strongest optimisation, trading and data people are rarely on job boards, and a generalist agency working ten sectors at once does not know who they are or which market they really sit in. Because this desk does nothing but grid-scale storage and optimisation, we already know the market and the people in it — and we screen every shortlist hard against a clear brief before it reaches you.
Years building relationships with optimisation, trading, data and platform people across UK energy and storage means we reach passive talent quickly. Our EU and US networks are smaller but growing — both are markets we are actively building into.
We take a clear, detailed brief, then screen hard against it — competency-led questions, more than one pass, and a strong sense of what good looks like for the role. You meet people who match what you actually asked for, not a CV with the right words on it.
No competing briefs and no noise. Every conversation on this desk is a grid-scale storage conversation, which keeps our knowledge and shortlist current.
A structured search with consistent communication and a live feedback loop, so strong candidates stay engaged and offers do not fall apart.
Let’s start building your winning team – contact us now to begin.
Tell us about the brief and we will tell you exactly how we would find them.
If you optimise assets, build dispatch and forecasting models, engineer data platforms or lead teams in the storage world, we will help you find the right move — not just the next one.
We work across the optimisation, data and platform stack of grid-scale storage, from hands-on specialists to technical leadership. Typical roles include:
Honest conversations, a genuine grasp of the roles and the market, and no spray-and-pray. We only put you forward for roles that fit your skills and what you actually want next, and we keep you informed at every stage.
If you are looking for your next mid, senior or leadership-level move and want to work with forward thinking businesses please get in touch.
A clear, structured search that keeps scarce storage specialists engaged and clients informed from brief to offer.
We learn your assets, your route to market and your team before we approach a single candidate.
We tap a deep network across energy and storage — not job boards — and engage people who genuinely fit, including those you are quietly competing with trading desks and utilities to reach.
We screen rigorously against the brief — competency-led questions, more than one pass — so you meet people who match what you asked for.
We manage offer, notice and onboarding so your hire fits and stays from day one.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
Let’s start building your winning team – contact us now to begin.
Whether you are hiring or looking for your next role, we would love to hear from you.
Before a role goes live, or after it has stalled, find out whether your hiring campaign is actually set up to work.
It is a standalone product. You are not buying a search. You are buying the work a good agency does before it runs one — your brief, your salary, your advert, your sourcing and your candidate journey, taken apart and handed back to you as a report you can act on yourself. Everything an agency does to get a role filled, without handing the role to one. Built on 26 years of specialist recruitment.
People use it for two reasons. The first is before a role goes live, to find the problems while they are still cheap to fix. The second is when a campaign is already running and not working — four weeks in, nothing decent through the door, and no clear reason why. At that point you have something genuinely useful: live data. Real response rates, real drop-off, real feedback. More often than not, that data makes the problem easier to pin down.
For context: a campaign that runs eight to twelve weeks and turns up nobody worth hiring rarely costs less than £15,000 in management time, advertising and lost productivity — before you count the role sitting empty. The Diagnostic is £1,500, and there is no obligation to use Xist4 for the search itself.
Ten areas that decide whether a campaign works, each rated red, amber or green, with market data and specific fixes. No vague feedback. You see what to fix, what to leave alone, and what is quietly costing you the hire.
Where and how to advertise the role, in what order, and how to keep it visible past day one instead of peaking on the first morning and fading.
Specific actions for your role and your market that you can act on this week. Built around the job in front of you, not lifted from a checklist.
We walk you through the findings, answer your questions and agree next steps, so you leave with a plan rather than a document to file.
Tell us the role and where the campaign is up to. We will send the full Diagnostic breakdown and answer any questions — no obligation to use Xist4 for the search.
We are a focused recruitment partner for the grid-scale storage industry, connecting operators and optimisers with the optimisation, data, platform and leadership talent that makes live assets perform.
This is Xist4's dedicated grid-scale storage desk — optimisation and trading, energy data science, and the data and platforms that make assets perform. It is a deliberately narrow practice, and that focus is what lets us understand the sector, know the market, and reach specialists a generalist agency cannot.
Good hiring is not about filling a seat. It is about finding someone who raises the bar, fits the team and stays. We take a human, structured approach to every search and treat candidates and clients with the same honesty.
Grid-scale storage and optimisation is all this desk recruits in, through a data, optimisation and platform lens.
A clear, detailed brief and competency-led screening, done thoroughly. We know the sector and the market, so we know what good looks like for the role.
Clear communication, fair process and no spray-and-pray. People first, always.
A deep UK network across energy and storage, built over years rather than bought from a database. Our EU and US networks are smaller but growing, as we build into both.
Let’s start building your winning team – contact us now to begin.
Whether you are hiring or exploring your next move, we would love to talk.
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