VP, Deputy General Counsel – Real Estate & Development

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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

• Lead legal work for land acquisition, entitlement, and construction across Montera’s hyperscale data center portfolio • Exercise delegated authority from the Chief Legal Officer across real estate, development, and construction matters • Represent Legal with business teams, counterparties, lenders, and local authorities • Own land acquisition and site control, including purchase and option agreements, ground leases, title, surveys, easements, access rights, diligence, and option periods • Direct zoning, annexation, entitlement, and permitting strategy, including environmental conditions and water rights • Negotiate design, construction, and EPC contracts, including delay damages, liability caps, performance guarantees, warranties, insurance, collateral assignment, and lender step-in rights • Flow delivery dates, delay credits, and technical requirements from data center leases into construction and procurement contracts • Support data center lease negotiations and post-signature compliance • Structure condominium, parcelization, and platting arrangements for multi-tenant campuses • Support project financing, lender diligence, ground-lease financeability, leasehold-mortgagee protections, SNDAs, estoppels, and lender acceptability of condominium structures • Prepare Board materials and resolutions and support sponsor governance and consent processes • Build the legal department’s templates, playbooks, matter intake, contract lifecycle management, outside-counsel panel, obligations registers, and change-of-control registers • Define, recruit, and mentor legal team roles; provide business training; establish standards for responsive, commercially practical legal support • Partner with Development, Design & Construction, Delivery, Procurement, Finance, and Commercial teams • Travel regularly to sites, jurisdictions, lenders, and counterparties

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school • Admitted to practice and in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar, and 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 real estate and development experience, including end-to-end ownership of land acquisitions, ground leases, and entitlement matters • Substantial construction and EPC contracting experience on large, capital-intensive projects, including risk allocation, delay remedies, and lender requirements • Working knowledge of project and real estate finance, lender diligence, and leasehold financing protections • Demonstrated negotiation ability across a broad range of agreement types • Sound judgment regarding use of outside counsel and ability to manage firms to scope and budget • Exceptional drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills • Comfort operating autonomously in a fast-moving, founder-led environment • Preferred: data center, industrial, or mission-critical development experience • Preferred: condominium, parcelization, or multi-tenant campus structuring experience • Preferred: hyperscale leasing experience • Preferred: land-use and entitlement experience in Texas or Arizona • Preferred: legal-department infrastructure-building experience • Preferred: combination of law-firm training and in-house operating experience • Travel approximately 20–30% of the time; periodic visits to the main office or designated locations may be required

🏖️ 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 annual reimbursement for approved courses, certifications, conferences, and professional development • Remote work stipend • Annual performance bonus

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