Head of Origination

About American Terawatt

American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States.
Building it requires securing power on one end and customers on the other, and structuring novel transmission supply agreements between generation and load.

We design and deploy advanced power transmission systems, serving large industrial loads, hundreds of megawatts at a time. Our systems deliver electric power to everything from frontier AI datacenters to highly automated manufacturing, refineries, mines, and more.

We make interconnection fast, simple, and cheap. On our network, generation owners get their projects online faster, delivering abundant power at competitive prices.

The backbone of American Terawatt’s network is high power HVDC transmission, anchored by our unique terminal design. American Terawatt’s HVDC terminals are standardized, modular, and natively integrate energy storage. Each one is designed to expand to operate as a full node on our future HVDC transmission network.

We raised significant venture equity from leading firms, such as Altimeter, Founders Fund, Bessemer Ventures, and Zero Infinity Partners.

We are hiring a founding Head of Origination to secure the generation interconnection and customer transmission agreements needed to build American Terawatt’s network.

You will work directly with the Chief Business Officer, founders, and technical and commercial leaders and take ownership of originating generation partners, large-load customer opportunities, and the structuring and execution of the required document package.

This is a commercial leadership role for someone who wants to create first-of-their-kind energy transactions and help build a new category of energy infrastructure.

This is initially a hands-on senior individual-contributor role, with the opportunity to build and lead an origination team as the company scales.

• Own relationships with generation developers, IPPs, utilities, energy marketers, and other asset owners across the West, Texas, Rockies, and Plains.

• Source gigawatt-scale generation that can serve our network. Prioritize projects that are stranded, curtailed, unsuitable for colocation or stuck in interconnection queues, where our private network can convert stranded MWs into firm, deliverable power.

• Identify and originate transmission opportunities between generation and load.

• Partner closely with the Chief Business Officer to develop opportunities with frontier AI labs, hyperscalers, neoclouds, and other large industrial power users.

• Negotiate full commercial package from opportunity through execution - joint development, term sheets, generation interconnection, including security, availability, and other key terms.

• Translate a customer’s power requirements into a commercial and technical specification. Work with Engineering, Development, and Legal to make sure we can execute what you sell.

• Build and maintain a ranked pipeline with clear stages.

• Partner with Commercial Team, including energy analysts, to generate partners in high priority markets

• Feed customer, generation, and market intelligence back into American Terawatt’s energy network planning

• Evaluate counter party credit exposure. Partner with finance to develop creative credit solutions and ensure proposed transactions are financeable

• Represent AmWatt at industry events and conferences

• Work with founders and relevant team members to ensure the company can deliver what is committed.

• Identify and communicate commercial risks, trade-offs and execution requirements.

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