Senior Land Developer

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Full Time Bloomington, MN, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Senior Developer

Bloomington, MN (HQ)

Geronimo Power develops, owns, and operates large-scale power and affiliated digital infrastructure projects throughout America's Heartland, including solar, wind, energy storage, and powered data parks. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit  or follow the company on Linked In.

Geronimo Power's Development team originates, advances, and executes utility-scale energy and digital infrastructure projects across key U.S. markets. The Senior Developer is a senior individual contributor who independently advances a portfolio of early to mid-stage projects and supports select late-stage projects across solar, wind, battery energy storage, powered data parks, natural gas, and other emerging technologies. The role evaluates market and site opportunities, leads greenfield development, coordinates cross-functional inputs, manages development budgets and schedules, and identifies and mitigates project risk.

This position does not have direct people-management responsibility. The Senior Developer provides informal leadership to cross-functional project teams and works with internal subject matter experts, external consultants, landowners, utilities, regulators, and community stakeholders. Success requires sound judgment, clear escalation of risk, and the ability to move projects forward with limited oversight while maintaining alignment with company priorities, budgets, schedules, stage-gate requirements, and development milestones.

• Manage the budgets, schedules, risks, documentation, stage-gate requirements, and advancement of approximately 4-6 early to mid-stage projects across multiple technologies, while supporting approximately 1-2 late-stage projects as needed. Annual development budgets are generally expected to range from approximately $2 million to $7 million, depending on project type and stage.
• Support market evaluation, project origination, greenfield development, mergers and acquisitions diligence, and partnership opportunities.
• Evaluate project viability based on land, interconnection, permitting, stakeholder, market, economic, constructability, and strategic considerations.
• Lead negotiations and execution of purchase options, lease options, easements, extensions, and related real estate agreements, balancing operational, financial, legal, and constructability considerations across the project lifecycle.
• Build the greenfield development pipeline by identifying new market opportunities, evaluating development constraints and commercial drivers, and creating practical pathways to project viability.
• Represent Geronimo Power with landowners, local officials, utilities, regulators, transmission providers, and community stakeholders, and maintain relationships necessary to advance projects.
• Coordinate with Transmission, Engineering, Construction, Permitting, Real Estate, Legal, Finance, Commercial, Strategy, Community Engagement, and Procurement teams; provide informal leadership by clarifying ownership, driving accountability, and advancing deliverables.
• Identify, assess, manage, and elevate project risks, and recommend practical mitigation strategies and decision points.
• Partner with internal technical teams on interconnection and transmission activities, including schedule, cost, design, project-readiness impacts, and preparation of applicable interconnection materials.
• Partner with Engineering and Construction on site layouts, design assumptions, constructability, equipment needs, cost-effective development strategies, and accurate identification of project constraints.
• Work with the Permitting team to coordinate federal, state, and local permitting and approval processes for generation and load projects.
• Prepare project updates, budgets, forecasts, schedules, investment materials, and leadership reporting that clearly communicate status, decisions, risks, and required actions.
• Manage external consultants and contractors to ensure timely, accurate, and fit-for-purpose deliverables.
• Lead or support negotiation and execution of development agreements, service…