Director, Power Origination & Transactions

The Green Recruitment Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Green Recruitment Company partners with a client building a platform to deliver power for data centers. We seek a Director of Power Origination & Transactions to originate, structure, and close partnerships and commercial agreements from first contact to signed deals.

The role demands deep power-sector experience, strong deal execution, and leadership in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment. You will work with developers, IPPs, utilities, equipment providers, data center operators, and

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in business development, origination, or corporate development in power/infrastructure.
• Proven ownership of complex transactions (PPAs, JVs, dev partnerships, acquisitions).
• Understanding of how power projects are developed, contracted, financed, built and operated.
• Hands-on experience negotiating long-tenor commercial agreements.
• Strong project economics sense and financeability impact knowledge.
• Financial modeling skills to build, audit, and defend deal economics.
• Ability to synthesize commercial, technical, and financial inputs into clear recommendations.
• Self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity and building structure from scratch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Originate and develop a differentiated pipeline of power-for-data-center opportunities, including JVs, partnerships, supply contracts, and offtake arrangements.
• Shape origination approach by prioritizing segments, regions, and counterparties.
• Build and sustain a senior network across developers, IPPs, utilities, suppliers, hyperscalers, data center operators, and financiers.
• Structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements with counterparties and counsel.
• Own transaction execution from term sheet to close, guiding external counsel and stakeholders.
• Evaluate strategic fit, economics, and executability; present investment papers for leadership.
• Bring operating perspective across interconnection, permitting, supply chain, construction, and schedule.
• Stay updated on power market and regulatory developments in key US markets (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP).
• Help build the origination and execution team and scalable processes.

Skills

Power origination & transactions

Complex transactions ownership

Power project development knowledge

Long-tenor negotiations

Project economics understanding

Financial modeling

Synthesis of commercial, technical, &财

Ambiguity management & structure

Executive communication

Willingness to travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or equivalent preferred

Job description

Our client is building a platform to deliver power at scale to data centers, and we are looking for a Director of Power Origination & Transactions to help create it. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Development & Business Execution, you will originate, structure, and close the partnerships and commercial agreements that turn early-stage opportunities into delivered projects. You will bring a practitioner’s view of how power projects actually get developed, contracted, financed, built, and operated, and use it to find the right deals and drive them to completion. You will work directly with developers, power producers, utilities, equipment providers, data center operators, and financial institutions, and you will own transactions from first conversation through signed agreements. The role suits a proven dealmaker with real business and operating experience, whether from a power developer, IPP, utility, or energy infrastructure company, who wants broader ownership in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment at the center of how AI infrastructure gets powered. This is a builder’s role. You will shape where in the market to focus, how the organization originates and executes transactions, and help build the team around you as the platform grows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Originate and develop a differentiated pipeline of power-for-data-center opportunities, spanning joint ventures, development partnerships, supply contracts, and offtake arrangements, progressing live transactions while continuing to cultivate earlier-stage opportunities.
• Shape the origination approach, identifying and prioritizing the segments, regions, and counterparties most likely to yield actionable opportunities, and the process for pursuing them.
• Build and sustain a senior network across developers, IPPs, utilities, equipment suppliers, hyperscalers, data center operators, and financial institutions, drawing on and extending your existing relationships.
• Structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements directly with counterparties and their counsel, balancing commercial value, risk allocation, and financeability.
• Own transaction execution from term sheet through definitive documentation and close, leading engagement with counterparties and key stakeholders, and directing external counsel and advisors.
• Evaluate the strategic fit, economics, and executability of each opportunity, and make the business case to senior leadership and the investment committee through investment papers and term summaries.
• Bring an operating perspective to every deal, assessing deliverability across interconnection, permitting, supply chain, construction, and schedule, and working with our project delivery team to ensure deals are structured to be built and run.
• Stay across power market and regulatory developments in key US power markets such as ERCOT, PJM, MISO and SPP, and bring back intelligence from customer and counterparty conversations to sharpen pipeline priorities and strategy.
• Help build the team and the processes that underpin origination and execution as the function scales.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 to 10+ years of experience in business development, origination, commercial, or corporate development roles within a power developer, IPP, utility, or energy infrastructure business, or in an advisory or investing role with deep power sector exposure.
• A record as the principal owner of complex transactions, such as PPAs, joint ventures, development partnerships, acquisitions or divestitures, or equipment and construction contracts.
• Firsthand understanding of how power projects are developed, contracted, financed, built, and operated, and of the commercial realities that drive each stage.
• Hands-on experience negotiating long-tenor commercial agreements directly with counterparties and their counsel.
• Working command of project economics and how commercial terms shape financeability.
• Financial modeling skills sufficient to build, audit, and defend the economics behind your own deals.
• Sound judgment in synthesizing commercial, technical, and financial inputs into clear recommendations.
• Self-directed and energized by ambiguity, comfortable setting direction and building structure where no playbook exists.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the credibility to engage senior counterparties and the ability to produce decision-ready materials for senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred.
• Willingness to travel as deals require.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Transaction or commercial experience in data centers or digital infrastructure.
• Experience across gas-fired, renewable, or hybrid generation, and with islanded or behind-the-meter structures.
• Existing relationships with developers, IPPs, utilities, and data center operators active in US power.
• Familiarity with investment committee processes.