Vice President, Corporate Counsel, Power Development

Overview

This role supports the development, financing, construction, and operation of energy infrastructure that powers the organization’s digital infrastructure strategies, including data center initiatives. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Senior Counsel, the position is highly visible and hands-on, partnering closely with leaders across energy development, construction, supply chain, finance, and project development. The role translates legal, regulatory, commercial, and execution risks into practical recommendations that help advance projects and transactions with appropriate protections and discipline.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support for energy generation, storage, and power infrastructure projects from development through operation and ongoing compliance.
• Advise on feasibility, site control, project companies, joint ventures, governance, and stage-gate decisions.
• Draft and negotiate development, joint venture, MOU, term sheet, and related formation documents.
• Negotiate EPC and construction agreements, including schedule, performance, security, warranty, and risk-allocation terms.
• Structure limited notices to proceed, early works, equipment reservations, procurement agreements, and long-lead equipment protections.
• Advise on permitting, environmental, utility, interconnection, energy supply, equipment procurement, ISO/RTO, transmission, and energy regulatory matters.
• Draft and negotiate PPAs and related commercial agreements, including capacity, tolling, offtake, gas, transportation, and O&M agreements.
• Support financings, including equity, debt, tax equity, security, and lender rights.
• Manage project execution risks, including change orders, claims, delays, licensing, commissioning, and disputes.
• Partner cross-functionally, manage advisers, and build repeatable legal processes, templates, and playbooks.

Requirements

Education / Accreditations

• JD required from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Admitted to and in good standing with a state bar.

Experience

• 10+ years of relevant legal experience, preferably including both law-firm and in-house experience in energy, infrastructure, project development, construction, project finance, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience advising on energy or infrastructure projects from early development through operation.
• Meaningful experience drafting and negotiating EPC, equipment procurement, development, interconnection, energy supply, offtake, O&M, financing, and joint venture agreements.

Required Expertise and Skills

• Energy project development experience across generation, storage, transmission, substations, natural gas, utilities, data centers, and digital infrastructure.
• EPC and construction contracting experience, including risk allocation, schedules, performance protections, security, change orders, claims, and long-lead procurement.
• Project and structured finance experience, including equity, debt, tax equity, lender diligence, security packages, direct agreements, consents, assignments, and remedies.
• Permitting and regulatory matters experience involving environmental, land use, utility, state commission, FERC, ISO/RTO, and local approvals.
• Experience with behind-the-meter, islanded, grid-connected, and customer-dedicated energy projects across multiple U.S. markets.
• Ability to translate technical, commercial, financial, and regulatory issues into practical business advice.
• Strong legal drafting, negotiation, project management, issue-spotting, and judgment.
• Executive presence and clear communication; ability to build trust with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Collaborative, self-directed, solutions-oriented approach; comfortable operating with urgency and ambiguity in a high-growth environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience advising on energy projects across multiple U.S. markets, including complex permitting and interconnection matters.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range (based on experience): $250,000–$285,000 plus discretionary bonus and equity participation.
• 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K program.
• Standard paid holidays.
• Unlimited PTO.

Location

• Denver, CO office; Seattle, WA office; Remote

Travel

• This position requires time with the market teams and may require travel to the organization’s markets.