Senior Corporate Counsel

Overview

This role supports the organization’s growing legal needs by providing senior in-house legal counsel focused on energy and commercial contracting. The position is well-suited for a commercial attorney with deep experience in energy markets—particularly negotiating battery energy storage system (BESS) contracts—and a strong ability to manage complex, detail-oriented transactions in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide range of energy and commercial contracts, including:
  • Battery energy storage system (BESS) agreements
  • Tolling agreements
  • Power purchase agreements (PPAs)
  • Interconnection agreements
  • BESS equipment supply agreements
  • Battery-specific safety, decommissioning, and end-of-life obligations
  • Other distributed energy resource contracts
• Serve as a senior legal advisor on structuring, negotiating, and closing battery storage and other energy storage transactions, working closely with commercial, engineering, and finance teams.
• Advise sales and partnership teams on legal implications, risks, and opportunities associated with commercial structures under consideration, supporting those teams in achieving commercial objectives consistent with legal risk tolerance.
• Provide substantive guidance on regulatory and market-specific issues affecting energy storage and demand response transactions across ISO/RTO markets (e.g., PJM, ERCOT, MISO, NYISO), including storage participation models under FERC Order Nos. 841 and 2222.
• Apply deep knowledge of legal issues relating to energy regulatory matters, IP, data use, privacy, and labor and employment law.
• Prepare, maintain, and improve template agreements, playbooks, training, and operational guidance for storage and commercial contracting.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior members of the legal team on contract negotiation and energy industry matters.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (sales operations, product, finance, marketing, field operations, regulatory, and engineering) to help ensure contract terms align with business objectives and priorities.
• Help develop processes to ensure ongoing compliance with contractual commitments and provide practical, solutions-oriented advice for issues that arise.
• Define and implement best practices around workflow and process to help scale the legal department.
• Assist with ad-hoc legal matters as needed.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school; strong academic credentials.
• Minimum of seven to ten (7-10) years of relevant legal experience, including significant experience in the energy industry (required).
• Direct experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating battery energy storage system (BESS) contracts and related transactions (required).
• Extensive experience drafting, preparing, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, particularly energy storage, PPAs, tolling agreements, strategic partnership, and product agreements.
• Working knowledge of U.S. energy markets, ISO/RTO structures, and regulatory frameworks governing distributed energy resources and energy storage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with behind-the-meter or C&I-sited storage.
• Experience with storage participating in demand response or wholesale capacity/ancillary services markets.
• Strong problem solving, innovation, collaboration, and business acumen.
• Ability to independently manage a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and anticipating issues.
• Excellent drafting skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work quickly in a dynamic, fast-paced environment to successfully multitask and manage deadlines.
• Experience working in Google Drive, Salesforce, Adobe PDF, Ironclad, and DocuSign strongly preferred but not required.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay: $150,000 - $170,000 per year (commensurate with experience)
• Bonus: 10-15% paid annually
• Equity
• Benefits include:
  • Unlimited leave for full-time employees
  • Parental leave
  • Comprehensive benefits package to support health, wellness, and financial security

Location

• Fully-remote position.
• Candidate must reside in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States.

Additional Information

• Visa sponsorship and transfers for new hires are not available.
• Remote work limitations apply for regulatory and security reasons; employees are expected to work primarily from their home country.
• Working while traveling to other countries must be approved under the organization’s Global Remote Travel Policy.
• Equal opportunity employer.