Director Regional Strategy, West

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We are seeking a Director Regional Strategy, West to create a greenfield development and M&A strategy focused on the Western USA. Projects include wind, solar, storage, green-hydrogen, and datacenter development.

This role will develop a duplicable process of evaluating opportune markets to determine development activities in 2025/2026 and beyond. Those with experience in interpreting policy, wholesale power price forecasting, and identifying commercial drivers for multiple technologies are strongly encouraged to apply.

Candidates must have 10-20 years of utility-scale renewable project development experience, with at least 1GW of completed projects. A technology agnostic background is a must; wind, solar, and storage.

• Provide data driven real-time actionable strategies to grow and enhance portfolio.
• Coordinate with executive team to devise a strategy focused on identifying favorable western locations, commercial strategies, greenfield development campaigns.
• Work with internal resources to conduct transmission analysis, power market analysis, government affairs.
• Produce ‘markets of interest’ targets to direct land acquisition and development teams.
• Direct M&A team to markets of interest, identify business development opportunties.
• Collaborate transmission, permitting, and land acquisition plans to support commercialization.