Head of Power Origination

5 hours, 40 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Sales and Business Development
Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is focused on designing and building commercial fusion energy systems, utilizing revolutionary high temperature superconducting magnets to accelerate the development of clean and limitless energy solutions.

Electric Utilities
501-1000
Founded 2018
$2000M raised

Description

  • Lead origination, structuring, negotiation, and execution of long-term PPAs, tolling arrangements, environmental product contracts, and capacity contracts.
  • Define and execute wholesale and retail power origination strategies that create contracted revenue for project financing and long-term growth.
  • Develop strategic relationships with utilities, cooperatives, hyperscalers, industrial customers, government agencies, and other counterparties.
  • Lead commercial activities for utility procurements, competitive solicitations, bilateral negotiations, and RFP responses.
  • Design innovative contract structures that engage early adopters and equitably allocate deployment risks.
  • Identify attractive power markets, RTOs, and regulatory frameworks; monitor market, resource-planning, and regulatory developments.
  • Partner with project development, finance, legal, external affairs, and engineering to align customer needs, project economics, and deployment plans.
  • Assess commercial risks and market data, develop project commercial frameworks, and present recommendations to executive leadership.
  • Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing origination team.
  • Oversee executed contracts for compliance and long-term customer partnership management.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, finance, economics, math, physics, or a related field, or 10+ years of progressive energy-industry experience including at least 5 years leading power origination, structured energy sales, or power marketing.
  • Proven record of originating and closing large-scale, long-term PPAs, tolling agreements, environmental product contracts, or capacity contracts.
  • Deep knowledge of North American wholesale power markets, RTO/ISO rules, transmission dynamics, and commercial risk allocation.
  • Established executive network across utilities, corporate or hyperscaler procurement teams, and wholesale counterparties.
  • Strong financial acumen and experience partnering with project-finance teams on contract bankability and risk-adjusted returns.
  • Exceptional negotiation, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills, including presentations to C-suite executives and investment committees.
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity, make high-impact decisions, manage competing priorities, and thrive in a high-growth environment.
  • Master’s degree, MBA, or advanced technical degree (preferred).
  • Experience with clean baseload power, FOAK technologies, energy storage, infrastructure, global power markets, or advanced decarbonization procurement standards (preferred).
  • Ability to travel up to 25% for customer meetings, site visits, and industry events; willingness to occasionally work nights, weekends, or on-call and work around industrial hazards.

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