Vice President, Power Generation & Storage Development

Switch

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 320,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Switch seeks a Vice President of Power Generation Development to lead the strategic development and deployment of utility-scale generation and energy storage assets supporting data center growth. You’ll oversee opportunities from site evaluation to commercial operation, coordinating across engineering, finance, legal, and operations to shape Switch’s long-term power strategy.

You’ll navigate permitting, interconnection, regulatory challenges, and market dynamics while building a high-performing

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Energy Management, Finance, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive experience leading utility-scale power generation or energy infrastructure development.
Demonstrated success developing gas-fired generation projects, including simple-cycle and combined-cycle facilities.
Experience leading projects from early-stage development through commercial operation, acquisition, or ready-to-build status.
Strong understanding of competitive wholesale power markets, interconnection processes, transmission planning, permitting, and utility regulation.
Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements and managing large development portfolios.
Strong understanding of project economics, capital planning, project finance, and infrastructure risk management.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing relationships with executive stakeholders, regulators, consultants, contractors, and utilities.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the long-term strategy for Switch's utility-scale power generation and battery energy storage portfolio.
Lead the full development lifecycle for new generation projects from site evaluation through commercial operation.
Identify, evaluate, and advance greenfield and brownfield development opportunities across competitive power markets.
Direct multiple concurrent development projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, schedules, budgets, and risk tolerance.
Lead project planning for gas-fired generation, battery energy storage systems, and other emerging generation technologies.
Evaluate technology options based on performance, reliability, emissions, operating characteristics, lifecycle costs, and commercial competitiveness.
Develop project investment cases, capital cost estimates, financial models, schedules, and risk assessments to support executive decision-making.
Lead interconnection strategy, transmission planning, and utility coordination activities.
Oversee environmental permitting, land use approvals, air quality permitting, water resources, zoning, and other regulatory requirements.
Negotiate commercial agreements including land control, fuel supply, transportation, EPC interfaces, equipment procurement, and development services.
Build and maintain relationships with utilities, regulators, ISOs/RTOs, EPC firms, OEMs, consultants, landowners, community stakeholders, and strategic customers.
Partner with Finance, Legal, Engineering, Construction, Commercial, and Operations teams to develop competitive infrastructure solutions.
Monitor energy markets, regulatory developments, technology trends, and customer demand to identify future growth opportunities.
Present project recommendations, portfolio updates, investment strategies, and business cases to executive leadership and Board-level stakeholders.
Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing project development organization while establishing scalable processes, governance, and performance expectations.