VP, Deputy General Counsel – Energy

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $325k - $350k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Montera Infrastructure

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2025

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

Construction • Logistics • Aerospace

Montera Infrastructure is a company focused on building and managing hyperscale data centers optimized for advanced digital workloads. With a strong emphasis on rapid deployment and unmatched scale, Montera’s team of experienced operators delivers critical infrastructure to support the growing demand in sectors like AI, cloud computing, and enterprise technology. The company operates mainly in North America, offering reliable and scalable solutions designed to meet the needs of leading innovators in the digital infrastructure space.

📋 Description

• Exercise delegated authority from the Chief Legal Officer across energy and commercial matters • Represent the Legal function with the business, counterparties, and regulators • Build legal-department infrastructure, including contract templates, negotiation playbooks, matter intake, contract lifecycle management, outside-counsel panel, and obligations and change-of-control registers • Define, recruit, and mentor attorney and director roles as the legal function scales • Select, scope, and manage specialist outside counsel to budget • Own negotiation and execution of electric service agreements, large-load tariffs and special contracts, and capacity reservation and deposit structures • Lead large-load interconnection and transmission matters, including queue strategy, network-upgrade cost allocation, transmission service, and ownership boundaries • Structure power procurement across utility, wholesale, and behind-the-meter sources • Advise on on-site and bridge generation, related supply, EPC, and operating agreements, parallel-operation, and permitting interfaces • Lead energy regulatory strategy before FERC and state commissions • Negotiate and close commercial agreements including MSAs, equipment procurement, technology and vendor, consulting and professional services, confidentiality, and teaming agreements • Support customer-facing agreements and allocate power-related risk in customer contracts • Support power and real estate diligence on site acquisition and land enablement • Support lender, sponsor, and customer diligence across the contract portfolio • Train the business on key terms and escalation protocols • Contribute to Board and sponsor reporting on contracted capacity, energy risk, commercial exposure, and legal-function development

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school • Admitted to practice and in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar • Able to register as in-house counsel where required in the state of residence • 15–20 years of relevant legal experience; candidates with 10+ years and exceptional depth will be considered • Deep energy transactional and regulatory experience, including end-to-end ownership of interconnection, electric service, and power purchase agreements • Strong command of U.S. wholesale and retail power markets, FERC and state-commission practice, and large-load tariff structures • Demonstrated commercial negotiation ability across broad agreement types • Sound judgment regarding outside counsel and ability to manage specialist firms to scope and budget • Strong business acumen balancing legal risk, schedule, and commercial priorities • Exceptional negotiation, drafting, and stakeholder-management skills • Ability to operate autonomously in a fast-moving, founder-led environment • Preferred: data center, large-load, or energy-intensive industrial development experience • Preferred: experience negotiating with investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, or municipal providers • Preferred: behind-the-meter, bridge, or on-site generation experience, including gas, storage, or fuel cells • Preferred: legal-department infrastructure experience, including templates, playbooks, delegation of authority, contract lifecycle management, and outside-counsel panel management • Preferred: hyperscale leasing exposure • Preferred: project finance and lender diligence

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage; employer pays 90% of health premiums for employees and dependents • Up to 8 weeks of paid time off per year, including holidays, PTO, and sick time • Up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave after 6 months of employment • 401(k) plan with immediate eligibility, no vesting requirement, and employer match contributions up to 6% • Up to $3,500 reimbursed annually for approved courses, certifications, conferences and professional development opportunities • Remote work stipend

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