Vice President, Energy Origination & Site Development

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🔥 16 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $300k - $400k / year

⏰ Full Time

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KKR

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1976

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2016-11

Insurance • Consulting • Finance

KKR is a leading global investment firm founded in 1976. It provides asset management, capital markets, and insurance solutions to institutional investors, families, and global wealth clients. KKR's investment approach spans private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, and strategic partnerships, focusing on delivering strong returns and shared success. The firm leverages a vast network of resources to drive operational excellence and support the growth of the companies it invests in. KKR serves a diverse range of clients, including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations.

📋 Description

• Build and manage a pipeline of digital infrastructure and data center-oriented power opportunities, including powered land, greenfield sites, and standalone power projects • Source opportunities directly through greenfield development, JV-style partnerships, project acquisitions, and M&A-adjacent opportunities • Shortlist and approach land parcels and customers in gas-connected, permissive markets, prioritizing ERCOT and the Southeast, with the Mid-South and West as secondary priority regions • Identify, qualify, and advance opportunities involving power availability, land, interconnection, development status, and data center demand • Own utility relationships and load interconnection with transmission utilities and RTOs including ERCOT, PJM, and WECC • Develop and maintain relationships with project developers, power and infrastructure companies, real estate and land counterparties, and other partners • Evaluate prospective opportunities with Vistra and other partners and help determine whether to fund, acquire, partner, develop internally, or deprioritize them • Support due diligence on data center and power projects, including site control, interconnection agreements, environmental assessments, title, and land parcel-level diligence • Support structuring the powered land plus offering, including load enablement, fiber pathways, water, permitting/community relations, and sustainability services • Support early commercial structuring involving term sheets, MIPAs, ROFRs, and JV arrangements • Operate effectively in a lean, growth-stage environment with hands-on execution • Represent Helix in confidential, market-facing conversations

🎯 Requirements

• Senior business development, project origination, or commercial experience in digital infrastructure, data centers, power infrastructure, or adjacent infrastructure markets • Power generation background across natural gas, renewables, and/or battery storage • Meaningful understanding of the data center ecosystem, including how power, land, development readiness, and infrastructure constraints shape project viability • Demonstrated ability to source opportunities directly through relationship-building, market outreach, partner conversations, and creative deal identification • Existing, active relationships with land aggregators/brokers, power developers, and digital infrastructure developers, ideally with a presence in ERCOT and/or Southeast markets • Experience evaluating early-stage partnerships, JVs, or M&A-adjacent opportunities, and leading due diligence through to close • Commercial judgment to distinguish high-quality opportunities from attractive but impractical leads • Strong communication skills and maturity to represent a confidential platform externally • Entrepreneurial mindset, high ownership, and comfort operating with ambiguity in a small, fast-moving environment • Familiarity with utility-scale power, renewable energy, firm power, load interconnection, land control, or behind-the-meter power solutions • Experience working in or with growth-stage companies, infrastructure platforms, developers, IPPs, or capital-backed project companies

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility based on individual and team performance • Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees as required by applicable federal, state, and local laws