Customer Value Architect, Portugal

Neara is a software technology company that provides a physics-enabled digital twin platform specifically designed for electric utility infrastructure. The platform enables utilities to create a behaviourally identical digital model of their entire network, integrating assets, surrounding terrain, weather conditions, and vegetation into a single physics-accurate environment. This allows network operators to simulate real-world scenarios including severe weather events, wildfires, floods, and equipment failures to understand risk, predict outcomes, and prioritize interventions before incidents occur. Neara's mission centers on improving the resilience, safety, and efficiency of energy infrastructure, which directly supports the clean energy transition by helping utilities manage aging grids, reduce outages, and enable the integration of renewable energy sources. The platform addresses critical climate-related challenges such as wildfire mitigation, storm response, and flood management, making it a key tool for utilities facing increasing climate-driven grid risks. By replacing fragmented point solutions with a unified model, Neara helps reduce the environmental and financial costs associated with infrastructure failures and inefficient maintenance. What distinguishes Neara is its use of physics-based simulation rather than statistical approximation, enabling users to move from broad risk awareness to precise failure prediction and actionable planning. The platform supports a wide range of use cases including vegetation analysis, clearance risk assessment, conductor clashing detection, asset lifecycle management, distribution and transmission network design, and regulatory reporting. Neara operates across multiple geographies including the United States, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand, serving major electric utilities seeking to modernize their network management capabilities.

Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara.

We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.

By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.

Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.

Neara is excited to enable one of its greatest growth opportunities with the hiring of a Customer Value Architect. The Customer Value Architect will work directly and closely with our highest value customers to drive the adoption, value definition and validation, and broader adoption of the Neara platform. We are looking for individuals with strong technical curiosity, an active enjoyment of customer engagement and navigation, and an ability to translate Neara solutions into quantifiable ROI for our most valuable users.

This position requires an appetite to become proficient in the industries we serve, the solutions we provide, and the value they create for customers.

What You Will Do:

• Develop a strong understanding of, and proficiency with, the Neara software platform in order to translate its functionality and value to customers.

• Work directly and closely with customers, including meaningful time on-site with customers to:

  • Drive and embed the use of the Neara platform by customers, including enabling the customer’s ability to proficiently use the platform to ensure customer ease of adoption and use throughout their organisation.

  • Ensure that Neara solutions adopted by customers are being delivered as contractually scoped and are delivering on identified business outcomes.

  • Develop a deep understanding of customer strategic imperatives and business goals in order to provide clear guidance on where Neara solutions can enable or enhance.

  • Serve as a trusted commercial and technical advisor to customers, ensuring Neara solutions are fully embedded within their business, including with respect to workflow or change management requirements that sit outside the core Neara scope.

  • Collaborate with customers to define and deliver business cases and related ROI metrics, in support of the value delivered by Neara solutions, including established cadences around internal reporting and value delivery reviews.

  • Identify opportunities for customers to expand their use and adoption of the Neara platform into other solutions through the identification of additional business drivers or pain points that Neara can help solve.

  • Identify and actively engage a broad stakeholder audience within customers to ensure close and trusted relationships, built on credibility, authenticity and transparency.

• Collaborate closely with Neara Sales and Deployment teams to drive customer happiness, platform adoption, growth, and consistent and measurable adoption and value demonstration frameworks.

• Design and deliver focused training sessions and workshops aligned with customer goals and workflows

• Identify emerging client needs and strategic opportunities, and work closely with Neara Sales and Deployment teams to inform customer account strategies and growth opportunities.

Who You Are:

• Significant experience with enterprise account engagement, strategy and client management, ideally within a large consulting organization.

• Familiarity with enterprise software platforms and deployments.

• Full professional fluency in English and Portuguese is required; working knowledge or fluency in Spanish is strongly preferred.

• Experience in developing tangible customer value and ROI frameworks that map to client strategic and business priorities.

• Strong communication skills, you can explain complex topics clearly.

• Strong critical thinking capabilities, you can translate back from customer outcomes to technical solutions.

• Strong external stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to build trusted relationships.

• A proactive problem-solver who enjoys finding creative solutions to solve customer pain points or enable commercial opportunities.

• Skilled in programming, data integration, and utilizing tools like macros and various software languages to create tailored solutions

• Experience within infrastructure, and specifically the energy sector, is a plus but not essential.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary.

• Significant career development and growth opportunities.

• Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and low ego work culture.

• The opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems.

• The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high-growth company.

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