VP, Project Development

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🕒 July 15

🏢🏡 Houston – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Giga Energy

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11 - 50 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

💰 $2.3M Seed Round on 2022-03

Manufacturing • Logistics • Energy

Giga Energy is a company specializing in the manufacturing and supply of electrical equipment and modular data centers. They provide a wide range of products including 3-phase and 1-phase padmount transformers, substation transformers, and UL 891 switchboards. Their transformers are designed to support both commercial and industrial power distribution needs, while their modular data centers, such as the Giga Box Air™ and Giga Box Hydro™, cater to efficient data management and are particularly designed for bitcoin mining. Giga Energy is committed to high quality, fast lead times, and exceptional customer service in delivering infrastructure solutions that energize the modern world.

📋 Description

• As a VP, Project Development, you will own everything that sits between site selection and construction. • You will be embedded with a development team and local jurisdictions to take end-to-end ownership of getting each site shovel-ready as fast as possible. • Build agency relationships before they are needed — not when you are already on the clock • Drive zoning, land use approvals, conditional use permits, and variances through local and state agencies • Identify and pursue parallel regulatory pathways to compress overall approval timelines • Collaborate with Engineering and Construction teams to ensure the most efficient path to shovel-readiness • Lead negotiations with power providers, water districts, and telecom utilities • Create and maintain detailed development schedules tracking every entitlement, utility, and permit milestone

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Planning, Construction Management, or related field • 10+ years delivering complex, multi-agency development or infrastructure projects, bonus points for experience in Energy or Data Center development • Demonstrated experience managing entitlements, permitting, and utility coordination simultaneously • Strong technical literacy — able to hold substantive conversations with civil, electrical, and structural engineers • Exceptional relationship-building skills with government agencies, utilities, and community stakeholders • Experience creating and managing detailed project schedules and critical path dependencies • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with shifting priorities

🏖️ Benefits

• Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance • Equity (options) in a rapidly growing startup • 401(k) with 4% employer match • Unlimited PTO • Parental leave • Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA) • Commuter benefits • Monthly team onsites where all offices come in–person to collaborate