Director Regional Strategy, West

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 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.