Director, Transmission Business Development

About us: Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company built and operates 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission and 7 transmission utilities and has another 375+ miles currently in construction or development.

LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $76 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

About us: Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company built and operates 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission and 7 transmission utilities and has another 375+ miles currently in construction or development.

LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $76 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

We are seeking a Director, Transmission Business Development to identify and develop electric transmission investment opportunities, with a primary focus on strategic partnerships with investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, and other transmission owners and developers. The role will focus primarily on the Midwest and will be responsible for originating opportunities, developing relationships with key industry decision makers, structuring partnerships, and negotiating commercial arrangements through execution.

The ideal candidate will bring an established network of industry relationships, significant electric utility, RTO/ISO, or transmission experience, excellent communication skills, and strong commercial acumen. This position may require extensive travel.

• Identify and originate transmission development and investment opportunities throughout the Midwest.
• Develop and maintain relationships with IOUs, electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, public power entities, transmission owners, developers, and other potential strategic partners.
• Develop partnership strategies and commercial structures that align the interests of the company and prospective partners.
• Lead discussions and negotiations regarding ownership, development responsibilities, capital contributions, governance, risk allocation, and other material commercial terms.
• Lead or coordinate the negotiation and execution of term sheets, development agreements, joint development agreements, and other commercial arrangements.
• Evaluate potential opportunities based on strategic fit, commercial attractiveness, development risk, regulatory considerations, and probability of success.
• Coordinate with internal development, regulatory, legal, engineering, finance, and executive teams to evaluate and advance opportunities.
• Monitor industry, regulatory, and transmission planning developments to identify emerging business opportunities.
• Represent the company at utility…