Energy Solutions Development Leader

Stanford Climate Ventures; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo is seeking a Development Manager, Energy Solutions to shape how projects deliver power to customers with diverse needs, including on-site and behind-the-meter configurations. You will own the commercial and technical integration from concept through financeable agreements, working with teams across Transmission & Interconnection, Commercial, Finance and Legal.

The ideal candidate moves between deal structuring, technical feasibility, and stakeholder management in a fast-moving development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, business, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in power project development, structured/project finance, or commercial roles within power generation or energy infrastructure.
• Experience structuring or negotiating commercial agreements for power delivery (e.g., PPAs, interconnection agreements, EPC/O&M).
• Working knowledge of behind-the-meter and on-site generation, interconnection processes, and flexible generation economics.
• Comfortable reading and pressure-testing financial models and technical studies; able to translate complexity into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Highly organized self-starter, comfortable managing multiple workstreams and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the path from concept to a financeable, executable agreement for Fervo's energy delivery arrangements, including decision logs, risk registers, and critical-path tracking, and ensure terms stay aligned.
• Structure and negotiate commercial terms for flexible and on-site power arrangements, coordinating with Legal and Origination on contract frameworks, term sheets, and deal comparisons.
• Coordinate with Transmission & Interconnection on technical feasibility, interconnection pathways, and utility requirements that inform deal structure and schedule.
• Partner with subsurface, drilling, completions, and engineering to align the resource plan with microgrid design and on-site load requirements.
• Translate resource characteristics, generation profiles, and technical constraints into commercial and financing assumptions for behind-the-meter and microgrid deals.
• Serve as the connective link between the geothermal resource, the microgrid, and on-site power needs so they are engineered, built and operated as one system.
• Translate technical and commercial inputs into a coherent, lender-ready narrative with Finance and Capital Markets; prepare materials for senior leadership.
• Help build playbooks, templates, and internal tools to scale the pipeline of energy solutions opportunities.

Skills

Power development

Project finance

Commercial negotiation

Interconnection process

Financial modeling

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Fervo is seeking a Development Manager, Energy Solutions to shape how projects deliver power to customers with diverse needs, including on-site and behind-the-meter configurations. You will own the commercial and technical integration from concept through financeable agreements, working with teams across Transmission & Interconnection, Commercial, Finance and Legal.

The ideal candidate moves between deal structuring, technical feasibility, and stakeholder management in a fast-moving development