VP, Low-Carbon Power & Data Center Development

BLANKSLATE Partners

Denver (CO)

Hybrid

USD 250,000 - 350,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

CO280, a North America-focused low-carbon infrastructure platform, seeks a Vice President of Project Development to lead origination, strategy, and partnerships for gigawatt-scale data center energy projects. You will own development from concept to Final Investment Decision, coordinating with utilities, hosts, OEMs, EPCs, hyperscalers, and investors.

Preference for Houston, Dallas, Denver, or Vancouver with at least 30% travel, and a track record delivering utility-scale projects from inception

Qualifications

15+ years of project development experience in power/energy infrastructure with a track record from origination to FID.
An established executive network across utilities, IPPs, OEMs, EPCs, investors, or hyperscalers.
Proven ability to originate and commercialize new infrastructure opportunities with sophisticated corporate customers and partners.
Deep experience developing utility-scale power infrastructure: generation, transmission, interconnection, permitting, and site development; hyperscale data centers desirable.

Responsibilities

Drive new low-carbon power projects from origination through FID, then support the project engineering team commercially through construction to commercial operation.
Develop CO280’s project origination strategy by matching industrial host sites with hyperscaler demand, transmission availability, fiber infrastructure and regional power market opportunities.
Own the development budget and project economics for each project through stage-gates to FID, including scenario and sensitivity analysis on key inputs.
Build executive relationships with utilities, industrial hosts, hyperscalers, neoclouds, data center developers, OEMs, EPCs, gas suppliers, and strategic partners across the project value chain.
Negotiate contracts with project partners, working closely with project engineering, finance, legal, community engagement, and commercial teams.
Partner with the commercial team to map the hyperscaler and AI-buyer channel end-to-end, translating buyer needs into project design and the development roadmap.
Partner with engineering to develop technically robust, financially viable and bankable projects; coordinate studies and relationships with OEM and EPC partners.
Align with finance to ensure projects are bankable, supporting project economic models and corporate financing activities.
Manage the operating cadence — stage-gates, risk registers, development-budget discipline, and project economic performance.
Build and lead the project development team: hiring, operating cadence, stage-gate process, and development budgets.
Shape CO280’s long-term infrastructure strategy as a member of the executive leadership team, defining where the business plays and how it scales.