Director, Powered Land Development

The role

The Director, Powered Land Development will build the powered land development function from the ground up. This person will source, evaluate, and advance sites for solar and storage deployments.

What you will do

• Source, screen, and evaluate prospective sites for solar and storage deployments
• Lead entitlement and permitting strategy with local, county, and state officials
• Support government affairs and community relations efforts
• Negotiate and secure site control with landowners and land agents
• Represent Redwood with landowners, brokers, customers, and officials
• Develop and own financial and valuation models
• Build and maintain tracking tools for land inventory, pipeline, budgets, and schedules
• Manage site-identification tasks against budgets and schedules
• Maintain pipeline tracking and reporting for leadership

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in real estate development, engineering, business, planning, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in energy project development, real estate development, or land acquisition
• Demonstrated experience navigating local and county-level permitting, zoning, and entitlement processes
• Track record independently sourcing and negotiating site control agreements with landowners and land agents
• Working knowledge of financial and valuation modeling to evaluate project economics
• Experience engaging and building relationships with local government officials and community stakeholders
• Ability to independently build processes and tools for a function with limited existing infrastructure
• Ability to travel extensively to support site visits, diligence, and stakeholder engagement

Nice to have

• utility-scale solar, storage, or data center site development

About the company

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla. It is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America.