Sr. Director or Vice President, Digital Infrastructure

Avantus develops, owns and operates utility-scale clean energy projects across California and the Desert Southwest.

• The Sr. Director or Vice President, Digital Infrastructure leads Avantus' development of powered land and data center-oriented energy infrastructure. Energy availability, not capital, is now the binding constraint on data center growth, and “powered land” - entitled sites with a secured path to power - commands a structural premium. Avantus already controls large contiguous desert-southwest sites, generation interconnection queue positions, and utility relationships in exactly the geographies where hyperscalers are power- and land-constrained.
  
  This role stands up and leads Avantus' data center development unit, building a repeatable pipeline of powered land, co-development, and energy infrastructure opportunities, and translating the company's existing land and interconnection assets as well as developing new projects into a new, durable line of business. This role reports directly to the Chief Development Officer.
• Build and lead Avantus' data center development function, converting the company's land and interconnection queue positions while developing new sites into a repeatable pipeline of powered land, co-development, and energy infrastructure opportunities.
• Lead a small and nimble team responsible for end-to-end management of data center development projects, including site selection, design, permitting, and utility coordination; assess site feasibility based on Avantus’s generation resources, power availability, connectivity, environmental considerations, and regulatory requirements; and negotiate energy supply agreements including pricing, contract terms, and service levels to secure reliable, cost-effective power for data center operations.
• Develop and execute integrated energy strategies for powered land, spanning greenfield monetization, co-development partnerships with data center operators, and selective self-development of energized campuses.
• Source and structure opportunities across the full range of deal types - land monetization, JV-style co-development, project acquisitions, and M&A-adjacent structures - with developers, landowners, and infrastructure partners.
• Coordinate with internal interconnection and transmission teams on load service requests, electrical service agreements, and transmission capacity with utilities and ISO/RTO operators.
• Coordinate with internal real estate team to identify sites to lease or purchase to support facilities
• Coordinate with internal environmental permitting team to manage county and state permitting processes
• Partner directly with data center customers to deliver energy solutions through PPAs and on-site, off-site, or behind-the-meter technologies.
• Evaluate prospective opportunities in partnership with internal power, engineering, development, finance, and commercial leadership, and help determine which should be funded, acquired, partnered, developed internally, or deprioritized.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with utilities, hyperscalers, and infrastructure partners to structure innovative, repeatable energy solutions.
• Represent Avantus with credibility and commercial judgment in confidential, market-facing conversations with developers, landowners, and data center operators.
• Bring a data center and digital infrastructure lens to a team with deep power and renewable energy development experience, operating with the strategic judgment and hands-on execution a growth-stage platform requires.

• 12+ years of experience in energy management, utility-scale renewable development, or data center power infrastructure, including senior…