Senior Manager, Environmental & Permitting Development & Origination Redwood , CA; San Diego, CA; Denver

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Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by Soft Bank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a Soft Bank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, Soft Bank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States.

Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future-today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

The Environmental & Permitting Senior Manger will be responsible for acquisition of discretionary land use and environmental permits and authorizations in support of SB Energy's development and construction portfolio for utility scale energy generation, energy storage, and data center projects across the U.S.

• Plan and oversee the management and advancement of local, state, and federal permitting processes and manage project compliance during the development and construction phases of energy generation, energy storage, and data center projects.
• Prepare, evaluate, and/or manage the preparation of natural resource surveys,landuse applications, environmental impact reports, and other technical reports.
• Understand the practical implications of existing permits and propose permitting strategies.
• Work collaboratively with other cross-functional teams including Development, Origination, Engineering, Transmission/Interconnection, Capital Markets, Data Center and other support teams.
• Identify external consultants with relevant, local expertise and experience; prepare scope of work and contract documents; and oversee quality of work product.
• Support project financing activities.
• Develop and successfully deliver on project schedules and budgets.
• Travel nationally up to 30%.
• Build effective relationships with authorities having jurisdiction, neighbors, the local community, third-party stakeholders, and any other relevant stakeholders.

• A bachelor's degree in environmental science, biology, land use planning, ecology, geography, or another relevant field.
• At least 8-12+ years of professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in supporting environmental compliance and permitting issues in the United States for energy generation, energy storage, and/or data center projects, including their associated infrastructure, such as interconnection/collection substations, collector lines, generation lines, access roads, etc.
• Strong understanding of local, state, and federal discretionary permits and environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act (CWA) (stormwater/erosion prevention/WOTUS NWPs), Clean Air Act (CAA) (GHG, thermal…