Director, Renewable Energy Transactions Counsel

Prologis

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 230,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, dental and vision

401(k) company match

PTO 22 days/year

Job summary

Prologis seeks a Director Transactional Counsel (Energy Solutions) to act as a key legal partner to the Prologis Energy Solutions businesses, focusing on renewable energy project development and commercial transactions.

The role supports Solar origination and development teams on power purchase agreements, site control, development and entitlement matters, EPC agreements, and related legal issues through origination to construction.

Qualifications

Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
At least seven years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, in-house legal department, or both, with a meaningful focus on renewable energy project development or commercial energy transactions.
Experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating solar power purchase agreements or comparable distributed-energy customer agreements.
Experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating EPC contracts.
Experience with renewable energy site control and real estate agreements, including leases, licenses, and easements.
Working knowledge of title, survey, zoning, land use, permitting, and interconnection-related site rights in renewable energy project development.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary legal partner to the Solar origination team, advising on transaction structure and risk allocation.
Draft, review, and negotiate power purchase agreements, equipment leases, and related customer-facing agreements for commercial and industrial solar projects in coordination with regulatory and business stakeholders.
Advise business teams on the evaluation and structuring of new solar opportunities, identifying legal issues that could affect project economics, schedule, financing, construction, or long-term operations.
Lead legal support for site control across utility-scale Solar and BESS projects, including roof and ground leases, lease options, licenses, easements, access agreements, and landlord consents, and manage local land-use or real estate counsel when jurisdiction-specific expertise is required.
Coordinate with internal real estate, leasing, development, origination, execution, finance, tax, and regulatory teams to align site-control and entitlement strategies with the broader project structure.
Review and negotiate EPC agreements and advise on contract interpretation during construction, including schedule delays, milestone requirements, change orders, defaults, and related assessments.
Develop and maintain scalable forms, clause libraries, playbooks, and approval frameworks for recurring transactions, incorporating lessons from active projects into EPC forms and development documents.