Development Manager

About the role

Paces is seeking a Development Manager to join our Solutions and Development team. Reporting directly to the Head of Development, this position will lead development engagements from site origination through permitting and interconnection.

Responsibilities

• Lead development engagements from site origination through permitting and interconnection
• Site Origination: Run greenfield and acquisition workflows end-to-end: screening, landowner outreach, contract negotiation, and economic modeling.
• Interconnection: Manage utility coordination, power flow analysis, and interconnection applications across transmission and distribution projects.
• Permitting: Understand required permitting pathways, identify key stakeholders, and prepare and submit permit applications.
• Build automation systems that scale
• Build tooling and playbooks that reduce cycle time across site evaluation, diligence, and reporting.
• Surface product roadmap inputs from frontline development delivery pain points.
• Be the Voice of the Developer
• Keep siting, permitting, and power products grounded in what developers encounter on the ground.
• File actionable tickets, surface patterns across engagements, and participate in design and product reviews.
• Develop the team and codify knowledge
• Mentor Associate members of the team, build onboarding and project playbooks, and raise the bar on how Paces delivers at scale.
• Act as a domain expert within Paces to shape internal methodologies and educate other teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years of exceptional experience in renewable energy development, data center infrastructure, or power project development.
• Proven track record of moving projects from siting through NTP: negotiating land agreements, driving interconnection applications, navigating permitting, and modeling project economics.
• Comfort with GIS, data analysis, AI coding tools, and utility planning portals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage relationships across C-suite customers, utilities, offtakers, and internal technical teams simultaneously.

About You

• You wake up excited about grid infrastructure, climate tech, or the data-center energy arms race.
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and can translate complex utility or regulatory processes into actionable next steps.
• You think like a developer, not just a consultant. You care whether the project actually gets built, and you take ownership of outcomes.
• You thrive in ambiguity and find fulfillment in solving un-scoped problems while managing multiple concurrent work streams.
• You have a meticulous attention to detail and a passion for getting it right, whether that’s a zoning map, load flow model, or customer proposal.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience in project acquisitions or M&A diligence, sourcing deals, evaluating development-stage assets, reviewing data rooms, or supporting transaction execution.
• Experience at a high-growth startup, or in a client-embedded role where you were accountable to someone else's timeline and capital.
• Hands-on comfort with scripting tools, AI coding tools, and a passion to automate repetitive tasks.
• Deep knowledge of data center load profiles, large load interconnection, or energy procurement for hyperscale or co-location customers.

Career Path

We are enabling the climate optimum use for all the world’s land and are throughout leaders in the evolving data center and renewables markets.

Company Culture

We have world class customers and are growing!

We've raised $13M+ led by Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator.

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