End-to-End Energy Project Finance Lead

Endurance Energy; Seattle, Washington (WA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental & Vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Global fieldwork

Hands-on deployment

Cutting-edge development

Equity ownership

Company boat access

Free meals

Job summary

Endurance Energy, Seattle-based, is seeking a Project Finance Lead to originate, structure, and close capital for its subsea geothermal power projects. You will build and own project-level financial models, pursue debt, equity, and blended funding, and negotiate with banks, DFIs, and government partners through financial close.

You will report to the COO and engage with executives, lenders, and external advisers, driving high-impact deals from first model to signature.

Qualifications

• ~7 years of experience structuring, raising, and closing capital for real projects or transactions.
• Backgrounds in project finance, infrastructure investing, banking, private credit, development finance, developer or IPP finance teams, energy (geothermal or oil & gas), or corporate development can all fit.
• Track record of leading financings to close: running lender processes, negotiating term sheets and credit agreements, and managing lenders, investment committees, and counsel through execution.
• Demonstrated experience building infrastructure-grade, auditable project financial models from a blank workbook: revenue builds, PPA pricing, capital stacks, debt service and sizing, and returns analysis, all built with full sensitivity and scenario analysis capabilities.
• Creative financier who can integrate blended capital into traditional project finance. Familiarity with government, multilateral, credit support, philanthropic grants, tax credit-equity, private credit, structured/asset-backed finance, and beyond.
• Strong understanding of energy or infrastructure project economics, including levelized cost concepts, offtake structures, and how cost of capital drives delivered cost.
• Experience with counterparty due diligence and owning responses to external investor and lender due diligence.
• Detail-oriented and organized manager who can own transaction documentation, internal project management, and management of legal counsel, engineering, market study consultants, and other service vendors.
• Clear, direct writing suitable for term sheets, internal memos, and counterparty-facing materials including presentations and proposals.
• Excellent communication skills suitable for negotiating commercial terms with external counterparties and presenting business-level metrics to internal executives and Board members.
• Able to code switch across asset classes and audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own project financing end to end for every pipeline project: originate, structure, negotiate, and close the debt, equity, and blended capital that builds our power plants.
• Build and own relationships with banks, private credit funds, development finance institutions, export credit agencies, and other capital providers, and run lender processes from first outreach through financial close.
• Lead term sheet and financing agreement negotiations directly with lenders and investors, translating economic terms into agreement language and pressure-testing the economics of draft agreements.
• Model government and development finance instruments into project capital stacks, including grants, loan guarantees, and risk-mitigation products, and lead applications and negotiations to secure them.
• Build and own project-level financial models for every pipeline project: pricing, CAPEX, delivered cost of energy, capital stacks, and returns.
• Own and maintain the company's cost-of-capital trajectory and proforma pricing/CAPEX models, anchored to real financing structures and market comparables.
• Support live offtake negotiations with pricing scenarios, term sheet economics, sensitivity analyses, and rapid-turn responses to counterparty positions.
• Score pipeline projects against our evaluation framework and maintain the deal-economics source of truth used across the company.
• Build and maintain data rooms for partners, customers, and lenders, and lead responses to lender and investor due diligence.
• Support the commercial team's pipeline reporting, including agreement tracking and progress metrics.
• Develop financing and structuring strategies for new markets and new deal types as the pipeline expands.
• Be the Endurance lead on real-time economics, pricing, structures, and industry intelligence for global commercial and project finance.

Skills

Project finance

Capital raising

Financial modeling

Lender negotiations

Excel modeling

Term sheets

Debt equity

Tools

Excel

Financial modeling

Job description

Endurance Energy, Seattle-based, is seeking a Project Finance Lead to originate, structure, and close capital for its subsea geothermal power projects. You will build and own project-level financial models, pursue debt, equity, and blended funding, and negotiate with banks, DFIs, and government partners through financial close.

You will report to the COO and engage with executives, lenders, and external advisers, driving high-impact deals from first model to signature.