VP Power & Energy

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the company's global power and energy strategy to support a multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure pipeline.
• Lead utility engagement, grid access, interconnection strategy, and power delivery planning across multiple markets.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with utilities, transmission operators, regulators, and key energy stakeholders.
• Drive powered land, site selection, and campus activation decisions in partnership with development and real estate teams.
• Lead generation partnerships, energy procurement, and evaluation of PPAs, behind‑the‑meter solutions, microgrids, and energy storage strategies.
• Assess power availability, transmission constraints, infrastructure economics, and market attractiveness for future expansion.
• Partner closely with engineering, finance, legal, development, and executive leadership teams to support infrastructure investment decisions.
• Represent the company with governments, regulators, utilities, infrastructure investors, and strategic partners.
• Ensure the company maintains a scalable, resilient, and cost‑effective energy platform capable of supporting high‑density AI compute environments.

• 15+ years of experience in power, energy, or infrastructure strategy.
• Experience with in hyperscale infrastructure, data centers, AI infrastructure, digital infrastructure, or large industrial power users.
• Proven track record securing and managing power capacity measured in hundreds of megawatts to multiple gigawatts.
• Deep understanding of utility relationships, grid access, interconnection, transmission, distribution, and power delivery pathways.
• Experience with energy procurement, PPAs, generation partnerships, and infrastructure economics.
• Strong experience supporting powered land, site selection, campus development, or large‑scale infrastructure programs.
• Ability to operate across both strategy and execution, with ownership of complex infrastructure initiatives.
• Experience working with senior external stakeholders, including utilities, regulators, governments, investors, and strategic partners.
• Strong commercial acumen and executive‑level communication skills.
• Global or multi‑regional experience, ideally across North America and Europe, is preferred.

• Hyperscale cloud providers and infrastructure platforms.
• Utilities, transmission operators, IPPs, and energy infrastructure companies.
• Infrastructure developers and investment‑backed platforms with significant power and capacity requirements.

The ideal candidate understands that power is the critical constraint and strategic advantage in AI infrastructure and brings the ability to integrate power, land, capital, and compute into a unified infrastructure strategy. This is a confidential opportunity to help build one of the next generation's leading AI infrastructure platforms.