Full-Time
Sales Manager
Updated on 9/4/2026
VREY
11-50 employees
Turnkey communal solar energy for buildings
Compensation Overview
€75k/yr
Berlin, Germany
In Person
Relocation to Berlin is supported; the office is the role's home base.
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- You have substantial experience in B2B sales, business development, or a comparable sales-related role, ideally in the energy, real estate, or software-as-a-service sector.
- You have fluent German language skills at C2 level and can explain complex products in a structured, understandable, and persuasive manner.
- You think entrepreneurially, take ownership of your pipeline, and understand that sales carries direct responsibility for revenue.
- You work in a structured, key performance indicator-driven manner and continuously seek to improve conversion rates.
- You demonstrate high resilience, learn quickly, handle objections proactively, and persist after rejection.
- You are based in Berlin or willing to relocate there.
- You are willing to work in an ambitious, founder-oriented environment rather than a conventional nine-to-five role.
- You work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and Head of Growth and play a key role in expanding the sales team.
- You conduct consultation meetings with prospective multifamily housing customers and continuously improve the sales process.
- You advise owners of multifamily buildings holistically, from qualified inquiry through handover to the Energy Operations team for implementation.
- You manage your pipeline independently and consistently work toward closing deals.
- You conduct structured consultation meetings, identify decision criteria, and actively guide prospects through the entire decision-making process.
- You improve customer relationship management structures, pitch arguments, and follow-up processes with the Head of Growth and the team.
- You test new conversation guides, objection-handling approaches, and closing strategies.
- You help make the inbound process scalable and reproducible.
- You systematically bring customer feedback back to the team and derive concrete improvement opportunities.
- You work closely with Growth, Product, and Operations to further develop processes holistically.
- You help continuously make sales and operational processes more efficient.
- You have experience in the energy, real estate, or software-as-a-service sector.
VREY is a Berlin PropTech company that helps landlords enable solar power for multi-family buildings. It handles planning, installing photovoltaic systems, and the operational setup, including a digital platform that automates legally compliant billing to tenants. As a metering point operator (wMSB), it also manages contracts with other energy providers, removing the supplier obligation from landlords and allowing tenants to buy solar energy directly (potentially lowering bills by up to 20%). Its goal is to scale communal solar use, support building decarbonization, and increase property value through tenant-accessible clean energy.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3.6M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Germany’s June 2026 Energy Sharing rules expand local-solar policy momentum beyond §42b.
- VREY’s August 2026 hiring spree spans enterprise sales, operations, product, and finance roles.
- The April 2026 funding extends runway for platform automation and new building deployments.
What critics are saying
- §42b EnWG still demands 15-minute metering, contracts, and allocation logic, creating rollout friction.
- VREY’s model depends on landlord adoption; slow conversion leaves enterprise hiring underutilized by 2027.
- E.ON, Enpal, and local metering operators can bundle similar services faster, crushing differentiation.
What makes VREY unique
- VREY combines PV installation, wMSB metering, and billing for §42b buildings.
- The April 2026 €3.3 million seed round backs Rubio, HTGF, and kopa.
- VREY reports over 200 residential buildings across all 16 German states.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↑ 4%1 year growth
↑ 4%2 year growth
↑ 4%Berlin-based startup VREY has secured €3.3 million in seed financing to scale its solar power solutions for multi-family homes. The company specialises in bringing photovoltaic systems directly to urban residential buildings. VREY is already active in over 200 buildings, demonstrating early traction in the multi-family housing sector. The funding will support the company's expansion efforts as it works to increase solar power adoption in urban residential properties. The investment highlights growing interest in decentralised renewable energy solutions for apartment buildings, where traditional solar installations have historically been more challenging to implement compared to single-family homes.
Styx, a Mannheim-based investment firm, has invested in Vrey, a Berlin start-up focused on solar projects and communal building energy supply. This partnership aims to overcome the challenges of existing tenant electricity models. Styx specializes in early-stage investments in start-ups that promote more sustainable cities and buildings.