Solar Lead

Fluidstack

$200K — $350K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Managed large-scale infrastructure or data center projects across multiple sites.
  • Developed tracking processes and reporting systems for leadership decision-making.
  • Led cross-departmental coordination for project milestones at risk.
  • Implemented stage-gate frameworks for seamless project transitions.
  • Proactively mitigated schedule risks and cost exposures early.
  • Clearly communicated complex updates to executives and developers.
  • Bonus: Experience with data center deal structures and utility interconnection.

Responsibilities

  • Own solar strategy and deployment across US data centers.
  • Negotiate solar PPAs and offtake agreements with commercial partners.
  • Engage in regulatory and policy processes impacting solar energy.
  • Assess solar resource quality and potential with site acquisition team.
  • Lead cross-functional workstreams in solar project design and execution.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package with salary and equity.
  • Retirement or pension plan adhering to local standards.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) policy.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • Own Solar strategy and deployment. This includes commercial relationships with solar developers, suppliers, independent power producers, and behind-the-meter generation partners across every active US data center market, from initial site engagement through executed offtake agreement.
  • Negotiate solar PPAs, behind-the-meter offtake agreements, and retail power arrangements with commercial counterparties, structuring terms that create fungible capacity options and running scenario analyses to extend the shelf life of existing agreements or accelerate delivery of new ones.
  • Shape solar energy outcomes by engaging in interconnection processes, state and federal regulatory proceedings, and policy engagements that affect behind-the-meter generation timelines and economics.
  • Partner with the site acquisition team to assess solar resource quality, supply chain constraints, and behind-the-meter generation potential for prospective locations before lease commitments are made.
  • Quarterback solar workstreams across design, construction, finance, and grid operations, and distil market, regulatory, and technology developments into clear decisions for leadership.


What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've personally managed a portfolio of large-scale infrastructure or data center projects where the complexity came from the number of concurrent sites, not just the size of any single one.
  • You've built a program tracking processes, systems and reporting pipelines from scratch, not inherited them, and the output was something a leadership team actually used to make decisions.
  • You quarterback across construction, utilities, legal, finance, and operations simultaneously, and you're the person other teams call when a milestone is at risk.
  • You've owned stage-gate or milestone frameworks that coordinated handoffs between site selection, engineering, permitting, and operations, with no terms lost in the transition.
  • You catch schedule risk and cost exposure weeks before they surface in a status meeting, and you know which two people to call to fix it.
  • You write and communicate clearly enough to give a CEO or external developer a crisp summary of where a 7GW portfolio stands in five minutes.
  • Bonus: Data center powered shell or leased capacity deal structures. Utility interconnection and power market dynamics. AI infrastructure constraints and chip-lock scheduling. Portfolio-level tooling or automation built on top of spreadsheet-era data.


Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $350,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [redacted] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

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