Originations Lead

The Role

Own transaction execution end-to-end: Take opportunities from evaluation through structuring, negotiation, and close, with full ownership of deal outcomes.
Lead underwriting and structuring: Analyze transactions, build financial models, assess downside scenarios, and design structures that enable execution.
Build and manage relationships: Act as the primary point of contact for our client portfolio, developing durable, trust-based relationships.
Innovate: Develop innovative collateral structures and push the boundaries of what we can deliver across counterparties, constraints, and use cases.
Contribute to platform development: Act as a core user of our underwriting and origination systems, providing insights to engineering to improve workflows and AI-driven risk tools.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in renewable energy project finance, analyzing, structuring, and executing complex transactions in the US.
• Builder mentality: Thrive in 0→1 environments, operate effectively under ambiguity, move with urgency, and do what it takes to move the business forward.
• Creative structurer: Capable of designing innovative structures, working around constraints, and expanding what can be offered to clients.
• Highly analytical: Fluent in complex financial models and think naturally in terms of downside cases, risk allocation, and structural mitigants.
• Strong communicator with executive presence: Explain complexity with clarity and conviction, and are comfortable engaging directly with senior counterparties and stakeholders.
• Commercial and relationship-driven: Build strong relationships, develop trust quickly, and can position differentiated financial solutions in competitive institutional markets.
• Team-oriented operator: Operate with high ownership and low ego, and elevate the performance of the teams around you.
• Technology-oriented: Excited about leveraging SALO, our proprietary, AI-powered underwriting platform that enhances your judgment and scales your impact.
• Collateral insight: Understand how credit support is structured (e.g., letters of credit, surety bonds) in renewable energy transactions.

Benefits

Comity offers a competitive compensation range of $175K - $210K, along with comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, and flexible work arrangements.