Vice President, Energy Origination & Site Development

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

📋 Description

• Develop and oversee a pipeline of opportunities related to digital infrastructure and data center power, which includes powered land, greenfield sites, and independent power projects.

• Identify opportunities directly through greenfield development, joint-venture partnerships, project acquisitions, and related M&A activities.

• Target and engage land parcels and clients in gas-connected, permissive markets, focusing on ERCOT and the Southeast, with the Mid-South and West as secondary areas of emphasis.

• Assess, qualify, and progress opportunities that involve power availability, land use, interconnection processes, developmental status, and data center demand.

• Manage utility relationships and load interconnection with transmission utilities and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) such as ERCOT, PJM, and WECC.

• Cultivate and sustain relationships with project developers, power and infrastructure firms, real estate and land stakeholders, and other collaborators.

• Analyze potential opportunities with Vistra and other partners to evaluate whether to fund, acquire, partner, develop in-house, or deprioritize them.

• Assist in due diligence for data center and power projects, which includes site control, interconnection agreements, environmental assessments, title reviews, and land parcel-level diligence.

• Aid in structuring the powered land offering, encompassing load enablement, fiber pathways, water access, permitting/community relations, and sustainability services.

• Contribute to early commercial structuring, including term sheets, MIPAs, ROFRs, and joint venture arrangements.

• Function effectively in a lean, growth-oriented environment with hands-on execution.

• Represent Helix in private, market-facing discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in senior business development, project origination, or commercial roles within digital infrastructure, data centers, power infrastructure, or related markets.

• Background in power generation across natural gas, renewables, and/or battery storage.

• Solid understanding of the data center ecosystem, including how power availability, land use, developmental readiness, and infrastructure limitations impact project viability.

• Proven ability to source opportunities through relationship-building, market outreach, partner discussions, and innovative deal identification.

• Established, active relationships with land aggregators/brokers, power developers, and digital infrastructure developers, particularly in ERCOT and/or Southeast markets.

• Experience assessing early-stage partnerships, joint ventures, or M&A-adjacent opportunities, and leading due diligence through to completion.

• Commercial acumen to differentiate high-quality opportunities from appealing yet impractical leads.

• Excellent communication skills and the maturity to represent a confidential platform externally.

• Entrepreneurial mindset, strong ownership, and adaptability to operate with uncertainty in a small, fast-paced environment.

• Familiarity with utility-scale power, renewable energy, firm power, load interconnection, land control, or behind-the-meter power solutions.

• Experience working with or within growth-stage companies, infrastructure platforms, developers, independent power producers, or capital-backed project firms.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses based on individual and team performance.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees as mandated by applicable federal, state, and local regulations.