# Solar Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $200k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Solar Ppas, Offtake Agreements, Interconnection Processes, Regulatory Proceedings, Power Market Dynamics, Site Acquisition, Project Portfolio Management, Stage-Gate Frameworks, Risk Management, Stakeholder Coordination
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Own end-to-end solar strategy and deployment for multi-GW behind-the-meter generation to power AI data centers. Negotiate PPAs and offtake agreements, manage regulatory and interconnection processes, and quarterback cross-functional workstreams across numerous concurrent large-scale sites.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Own Solar strategy and deployment, including 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; structure terms that create fungible capacity options and run 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; distill market, regulatory, and technology developments into clear decisions for leadership.

## Requirements
- 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.
- Built a program tracking processes, systems and reporting pipelines from scratch, not inherited them, with output used by leadership to make decisions.
- Quarterback across construction, utilities, legal, finance, and operations simultaneously; the person other teams call when a milestone is at risk.
- Owned stage-gate or milestone frameworks that coordinated handoffs between site selection, engineering, permitting, and operations, with no terms lost in the transition.
- Catch schedule risk and cost exposure weeks before they surface in a status meeting, and know which two people to call to fix it.
- Write and communicate clearly enough to give a CEO or external developer a crisp summary of where a 7GW portfolio stands in five minutes.

## Nice-to-Haves
- 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.

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