Business Development Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Act as the project and due diligence team leader for large-scale renewable energy initiatives, primarily concentrating on solar and energy storage, with additional involvement in wind projects.

• Guide cross-disciplinary development and due diligence teams encompassing engineering, land management, environmental concerns, permitting, interconnection, legal, finance, commercial, and external development areas.

• Establish priorities, oversee timelines, ensure accountability, facilitate team meetings, maintain action logs, and escalate critical issues as necessary.

• Deliver strategic updates to senior leadership regarding project requirements, decisions, risks, and overall status.

• Assess acquisition and greenfield development prospects for feasibility and alignment with the portfolio.

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including utilities, consultants, developers, permitting agencies, and landowners.

• Clearly communicate complex technical and commercial matters and develop cooperative solutions through data analysis and structured reasoning.

• Design, enhance, and implement development processes, tools, and workflows.

• Keep abreast of industry trends, market conditions, and regulatory changes to inform development strategy.

• Oversee and mentor junior developers.

• Lead acquisition due diligence focused on development and prepare red-flag reports, risk assessments, and inputs for the investment committee.

• Engage in screening greenfield opportunities utilizing GIS, constraints analysis, and market research.

• Manage interconnection applications, studies, and queue progressions across ERCOT, CAISO, SPP, PJM, MISO, and NYISO.

• Assist with ISO and utility engagement on interconnection matters, system impacts, deliverability risks, study assumptions, and technical scopes.

• Relay interconnection implications to engineering and commercial teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Environmental Science, Economics, Renewable Energy, or a closely related field.

• 5–10 years of experience in the renewable energy development sector.

• Additional relevant experience in engineering, procurement, interconnection, finance, accounting, valuation, or permitting will also be considered.

• Proven capability to self-manage and lead project teams effectively.

• Established ability to manage resources, teams, and deliverables across multiple simultaneous workstreams.

• Knowledge of project budgets, financial models, and analytical tools.

• Strong problem-solving skills along with a structured, logical approach to decision-making.

• Experience in preparing and presenting updates and recommendations to senior leadership.

• Familiarity with U.S. ISO/RTO markets, including ERCOT, CAISO, SPP, PJM, MISO, and NYISO.

• Capability to thrive in an organization with evolving processes and to build scalable systems, tools, and workflows.

• Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.

• High proficiency in Excel.

• Familiarity with GIS, project management, and development tracking tools is preferred.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee Ownership Program

• Flexible working policy

• Support for wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance

• Competitive compensation package

• Diverse and inclusive workforce

• Significant exposure across the full project lifecycle

• Direct interaction with senior leadership

• Opportunity to help shape a rapidly growing renewable energy platform