Director Strategy, Development

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Joe Amara Executive Search represents companies within renewable energy and emerging infrastructure. Our team recruits on roles located throughout the United States, such as project development, power origination, finance, business development, strategy, engineering, sales and c-suite executives.

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We are seeking a Director Strategy, Development to create a greenfield development and M&A strategy focused on renewable power generation. Projects include wind, solar, storage, and P2X.

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

• Use your development acumen to help create a development strategy alongside regional development directors, transmission, and commercial teams.
• Provide data driven real-time actionable strategies to grow and enhance portfolio. Produce ‘markets of interest’ targets to direct land acquisition and development teams.
• Coordinate with executive team to devise a strategy focused on identifying favorable locations, commercial strategies.
• Work with internal resources to conduct transmission analysis, power market analysis, government affairs.
• Direct M&A team to markets of interest, identify business development opportunties, advise on divestitures.
• Collaborate transmission, permitting, and land acquisition plans to support commercialization.
• Represent company at industry events such as conferences.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of utility-scale renewable project development, with at least 1GW of completed projects.
• A technology agnostic background is a must; wind, solar, and storage.
• Bachelor’s Degree, MBA is a plus
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to present to executives and capital providers.
• Ability to travel 25%