Principal, Power Systems & Data Centers - Impact Consulting
RMI · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteInformation Technology$140k–$172k/yrFull-time
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Then Responsibilities: we have "Key Responsibilities" with subcategories: Strategy & Thought Leadership, Market Development & External Engagement, Program Leadership & Delivery, Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution. We could combine them under Responsibilities heading with bullet lists. But we need to preserve all substantive info; we can break into subheadings? The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid additional headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities...). Likely they expect only those standard headings. But we could still use for each of those categories? Might be okay but they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. We should stick to those. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required and Preferred Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills? Benefits? Pay? Schedule? We only include sections that have real content. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements section. Also we have "Why This Role Matters" maybe could be part of About the role or separate? Not in list; but we could treat as About the role? Might be better to include as a separate section? The instruction says "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It doesn't restrict to only those headings; they gave examples. So we can add other headings like "Why This Role Matters" as Why This Role Matters
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We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose use
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with - items for each duty. Could also nest subheadings inside
- ? Probably better to keep flat list but preserve meaning. Could also include subheadings as inside
- . That's acceptable.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. That's a lot; we need to include essentially all bullet points.
Let's extract responsibilities:
Strategy & Thought Leadership:
- Develop and maintain RMI’s institutional theory of change for data centers, defining how rapid digital infrastructure growth affects the energy transition and where RMI can have the greatest impact.
- Identify the most important system-level barriers, leverage points, and interventions needed to align data center growth with clean energy deployment, grid reliability, affordability, decarbonization, and community outcomes.
- Establish a clear view of where RMI should play based on its technical expertise, market influence, analytical capabilities, convening power, and external relationships.
- Integrate perspectives from Electricity, Buildings, Industries, Intelligence, Climate Finance, Third Derivative, Transportation, policy, and other relevant teams into a coherent RMI data center strategy.
- Identify priority stakeholders whose decisions RMI should seek to influence, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, regulators, policymakers, investors, and communities.
- Define strategic and reputational guardrails for RMI’s data center work, including where RMI should — and should not — pursue commercial engagements.
- Monitor changing technology, market, policy, infrastructure, and investment conditions and adapt RMI’s strategy accordingly.
- Represent RMI as a senior thought leader on the intersection of data center growth, energy infrastructure, and the clean energy transition.
Market Development & External Engagement:
- Develop and execute RMI’s data center go-to-market strategy, translating the institutional theory of change into a focused set of commercial and partnership opportunities.
- Define priority client segments, buyers, pain points, and decisions where RMI has a differentiated right to win.
- Develop and market-test a portfolio of commercial offering hypotheses with external stakeholders and prospective clients.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, infrastructure investors, technology providers, and other priority stakeholders.
- Conduct senior-level market and client conversations to understand emerging needs and translate those needs into actionable opportunities for RMI.
- Partner closely with RMI’s Corporate Engagement team and program leaders to develop priority account strategies and a qualified pipeline of opportunities.
- Shape concept notes, proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, delivery approaches, and commercial models.
- Apply disciplined go/no-go and right-to-win criteria to prospective engagements.
- Support senior client discussions and negotiations through contract execution.
- Potential Commercial Offering Areas May Include (list):
- Power availability, procurement, and grid integration
- Flexible load and demand-side solutions
- Site selection and energy infrastructure strategy
- Clean firm power and backup generation
- Transmission and interconnection constraints
- Data center energy and emissions strategy
- Water use and cooling
- Low-carbon cement, steel, and construction materials
- Integration of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) on site or adjacent to data centers
- Sustainability standards and metric design for data centers
- Permitting, policy, and community considerations
- Data center financing and investment
- Cross-sector decarbonization strategies for hyperscalers and operators
Program Leadership & Delivery:
- Serve as the accountable engagement leader for large, strategically important data center projects spanning multiple RMI programs and capabilities.
- Translate complex and ambiguous client questions into structured workstreams, hypotheses, analytical approaches, and decision-oriented outputs.
- Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams drawing on expertise from across RMI.
- Define clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights between the central Impact Consulting team and program-based subject-matter experts.
- Maintain accountability for project scope, timeline, budget, quality, and client expectations.
- Synthesize technical inputs from multiple disciplines into clear, integrated, executive-level recommendations.
- Guide the production of rigorous, decision-grade presentations, reports, analyses, and other client deliverables.
- Lead executive client meetings, workshops, working sessions, and presentations.
- Identify project risks early and take corrective action before issues become client escalations.
- Identify and shape follow-on opportunities where additional work creates genuine mission and client value.
- Ensure lessons from delivery inform subsequent offerings, scopes, pricing, methodologies, and strategic priorities.
Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution:
- Create the connective tissue required for RMI to operate as an integrated data center platform rather than a collection of independent technical teams.
- Build strong relationships with relevant Principals, Senior Principals, Managing Directors, and subject-matter experts across the Institute.
- Develop and maintain a clear view of RMI’s relevant capabilities, experts, analytical assets, datasets, relationships, and existing data center work.
- Identify capability gaps that may require new analysis, external expertise, partnerships, data, or investment.
- Develop repeatable approaches for staffing and governing multidisciplinary data center engagements.
- Identify methodologies, analytical modules, frameworks, datasets, and deliverables that can be reused across clients and engagements.
- Convert recurring client needs into repeatable advisory offerings where appropriate.
- Capture and institutionalize knowledge from client engagements and external market interactions.
- Mentor and coach RMI staff working on data center and Impact Consulting engagements.
- Contribute to RMI’s broader leadership community and the continued development of the Institute’s Impact Consulting capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, energy infrastructure, or a closely related sector.
- Demonstrated understanding of the data center ecosystem and meaningful experience with several of the following:
- Hyperscale or colocation development
- Power availability and procurement
- Utility engagement and interconnection
- Site selection
- Data center design and construction
- Sustainability and decarbonization
- Permitting and regulatory issues
- Water and cooling
- Backup generation
- Infrastructure investment
- Proven experience developing and executing strategy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving market.
- Experience leading complex, senior-client-facing consulting, advisory, or strategic engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, synthesize complex analysis, and translate technical information into actionable executive recommendations.
- Experience developing new offerings, shaping client opportunities, and contributing to business development, proposals, or commercial pursuits.
- Strong project and team leadership skills, including experience managing multidisciplinary workstreams, timelines, budgets, scope, and stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to personally develop and shape high-quality analytical and client-facing deliverables.
- Ability to influence senior decision-makers and mobilize teams without direct reporting authority.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to bridge technical expertise and senior-level business decision-making across diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15+ years of professional experience with increasing strategic, commercial, and operational responsibility.
- Graduate degree in engineering, business, economics, public policy, energy, sustainability, or a related field.
- Direct experience working for or advising hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center developers, utilities serving large-load customers, or digital infrastructure investors.
- Experience in strategy or management consulting focused on data centers, energy, infrastructure, technology, or sustainability.
- Experience with data center development, site selection, energy procurement, infrastructure strategy, or investment.
- Demonstrated success building new market offerings or business lines.
- Strong existing network across the data center, energy, utility, technology, or infrastructure ecosystem.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary initiatives involving stakeholders across multiple organizations or sectors.
- Combination of industry operating experience and consulting/advisory experience.
Why This Role Matters:
- Paragraph: The rapid expansion of data centers represents both a major challenge and a significant opportunity for the clean energy transition. Decisions being made today about where and how data centers are built, powered, financed, and operated will influence electricity infrastructure, capital deployment, industrial demand, community outcomes, and emissions trajectories for decades. Few organizations have RMI’s combination of energy-system expertise, technical depth, market relationships, analytical capabilities, and convening power. At the same time, these capabilities are distributed across the Institute. This role will be responsible for bringing those capabilities together — establishing a coherent RMI strategy for data centers, identifying where RMI can create differentiated impact, translating that strategy into concrete market interventions and client offerings, and ensuring that RMI can execute complex cross-program work at a consistently high standard.
Location:
- Paragraph: We are a remote-ready company with team members around the globe. Our beautiful and welcoming offices are available for meetings or focused work, whether you are traveling through or living nearby. Our U.S. offices are in New York City; Washington DC; Oakland, California; Boulder, Colorado, and Basalt, Colorado. This role can be located from anywhere in t (cut off). The original
for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info. We need to decide which sections to include: only when posting has real specific content. We have content for Overview (Position Overview). Could be "About the role" or "Position Overview". The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use those headings if content matches. We have "Position Overview" which is like About the role. We'll use About the role
and put the overview paragraph.
Then Responsibilities: we have "Key Responsibilities" with subcategories: Strategy & Thought Leadership, Market Development & External Engagement, Program Leadership & Delivery, Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution. We could combine them under Responsibilities heading with bullet lists. But we need to preserve all substantive info; we can break into subheadings? The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid additional headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities...). Likely they expect only those standard headings. But we could still use for each of those categories? Might be okay but they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. We should stick to those. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required and Preferred Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills? Benefits? Pay? Schedule? We only include sections that have real content. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements section. Also we have "Why This Role Matters" maybe could be part of About the role or separate? Not in list; but we could treat as About the role? Might be better to include as a separate section? The instruction says "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It doesn't restrict to only those headings; they gave examples. So we can add other headings like "Why This Role Matters" as Why This Role Matters
. That seems okay.
Similarly Location we can include as Location
.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose use
. So for responsibilities we have bullet points under each subcategory. We'll create a
with - items for each duty. Could also nest subheadings inside
- ? Probably better to keep flat list but preserve meaning. Could also include subheadings as inside
- . That's acceptable.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. That's a lot; we need to include essentially all bullet points.
Let's extract responsibilities:
Strategy & Thought Leadership:
- Develop and maintain RMI’s institutional theory of change for data centers, defining how rapid digital infrastructure growth affects the energy transition and where RMI can have the greatest impact.
- Identify the most important system-level barriers, leverage points, and interventions needed to align data center growth with clean energy deployment, grid reliability, affordability, decarbonization, and community outcomes.
- Establish a clear view of where RMI should play based on its technical expertise, market influence, analytical capabilities, convening power, and external relationships.
- Integrate perspectives from Electricity, Buildings, Industries, Intelligence, Climate Finance, Third Derivative, Transportation, policy, and other relevant teams into a coherent RMI data center strategy.
- Identify priority stakeholders whose decisions RMI should seek to influence, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, regulators, policymakers, investors, and communities.
- Define strategic and reputational guardrails for RMI’s data center work, including where RMI should — and should not — pursue commercial engagements.
- Monitor changing technology, market, policy, infrastructure, and investment conditions and adapt RMI’s strategy accordingly.
- Represent RMI as a senior thought leader on the intersection of data center growth, energy infrastructure, and the clean energy transition.
Market Development & External Engagement:
- Develop and execute RMI’s data center go-to-market strategy, translating the institutional theory of change into a focused set of commercial and partnership opportunities.
- Define priority client segments, buyers, pain points, and decisions where RMI has a differentiated right to win.
- Develop and market-test a portfolio of commercial offering hypotheses with external stakeholders and prospective clients.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, infrastructure investors, technology providers, and other priority stakeholders.
- Conduct senior-level market and client conversations to understand emerging needs and translate those needs into actionable opportunities for RMI.
- Partner closely with RMI’s Corporate Engagement team and program leaders to develop priority account strategies and a qualified pipeline of opportunities.
- Shape concept notes, proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, delivery approaches, and commercial models.
- Apply disciplined go/no-go and right-to-win criteria to prospective engagements.
- Support senior client discussions and negotiations through contract execution.
- Potential Commercial Offering Areas May Include (list):
- Power availability, procurement, and grid integration
- Flexible load and demand-side solutions
- Site selection and energy infrastructure strategy
- Clean firm power and backup generation
- Transmission and interconnection constraints
- Data center energy and emissions strategy
- Water use and cooling
- Low-carbon cement, steel, and construction materials
- Integration of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) on site or adjacent to data centers
- Sustainability standards and metric design for data centers
- Permitting, policy, and community considerations
- Data center financing and investment
- Cross-sector decarbonization strategies for hyperscalers and operators
Program Leadership & Delivery:
- Serve as the accountable engagement leader for large, strategically important data center projects spanning multiple RMI programs and capabilities.
- Translate complex and ambiguous client questions into structured workstreams, hypotheses, analytical approaches, and decision-oriented outputs.
- Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams drawing on expertise from across RMI.
- Define clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights between the central Impact Consulting team and program-based subject-matter experts.
- Maintain accountability for project scope, timeline, budget, quality, and client expectations.
- Synthesize technical inputs from multiple disciplines into clear, integrated, executive-level recommendations.
- Guide the production of rigorous, decision-grade presentations, reports, analyses, and other client deliverables.
- Lead executive client meetings, workshops, working sessions, and presentations.
- Identify project risks early and take corrective action before issues become client escalations.
- Identify and shape follow-on opportunities where additional work creates genuine mission and client value.
- Ensure lessons from delivery inform subsequent offerings, scopes, pricing, methodologies, and strategic priorities.
Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution:
- Create the connective tissue required for RMI to operate as an integrated data center platform rather than a collection of independent technical teams.
- Build strong relationships with relevant Principals, Senior Principals, Managing Directors, and subject-matter experts across the Institute.
- Develop and maintain a clear view of RMI’s relevant capabilities, experts, analytical assets, datasets, relationships, and existing data center work.
- Identify capability gaps that may require new analysis, external expertise, partnerships, data, or investment.
- Develop repeatable approaches for staffing and governing multidisciplinary data center engagements.
- Identify methodologies, analytical modules, frameworks, datasets, and deliverables that can be reused across clients and engagements.
- Convert recurring client needs into repeatable advisory offerings where appropriate.
- Capture and institutionalize knowledge from client engagements and external market interactions.
- Mentor and coach RMI staff working on data center and Impact Consulting engagements.
- Contribute to RMI’s broader leadership community and the continued development of the Institute’s Impact Consulting capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, energy infrastructure, or a closely related sector.
- Demonstrated understanding of the data center ecosystem and meaningful experience with several of the following:
- Hyperscale or colocation development
- Power availability and procurement
- Utility engagement and interconnection
- Site selection
- Data center design and construction
- Sustainability and decarbonization
- Permitting and regulatory issues
- Water and cooling
- Backup generation
- Infrastructure investment
- Proven experience developing and executing strategy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving market.
- Experience leading complex, senior-client-facing consulting, advisory, or strategic engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, synthesize complex analysis, and translate technical information into actionable executive recommendations.
- Experience developing new offerings, shaping client opportunities, and contributing to business development, proposals, or commercial pursuits.
- Strong project and team leadership skills, including experience managing multidisciplinary workstreams, timelines, budgets, scope, and stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to personally develop and shape high-quality analytical and client-facing deliverables.
- Ability to influence senior decision-makers and mobilize teams without direct reporting authority.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to bridge technical expertise and senior-level business decision-making across diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15+ years of professional experience with increasing strategic, commercial, and operational responsibility.
- Graduate degree in engineering, business, economics, public policy, energy, sustainability, or a related field.
- Direct experience working for or advising hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center developers, utilities serving large-load customers, or digital infrastructure investors.
- Experience in strategy or management consulting focused on data centers, energy, infrastructure, technology, or sustainability.
- Experience with data center development, site selection, energy procurement, infrastructure strategy, or investment.
- Demonstrated success building new market offerings or business lines.
- Strong existing network across the data center, energy, utility, technology, or infrastructure ecosystem.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary initiatives involving stakeholders across multiple organizations or sectors.
- Combination of industry operating experience and consulting/advisory experience.
Why This Role Matters:
- Paragraph: The rapid expansion of data centers represents both a major challenge and a significant opportunity for the clean energy transition. Decisions being made today about where and how data centers are built, powered, financed, and operated will influence electricity infrastructure, capital deployment, industrial demand, community outcomes, and emissions trajectories for decades. Few organizations have RMI’s combination of energy-system expertise, technical depth, market relationships, analytical capabilities, and convening power. At the same time, these capabilities are distributed across the Institute. This role will be responsible for bringing those capabilities together — establishing a coherent RMI strategy for data centers, identifying where RMI can create differentiated impact, translating that strategy into concrete market interventions and client offerings, and ensuring that RMI can execute complex cross-program work at a consistently high standard.
Location:
- Paragraph: We are a remote-ready company with team members around the globe. Our beautiful and welcoming offices are available for meetings or focused work, whether you are traveling through or living nearby. Our U.S. offices are in New York City; Washington DC; Oakland, California; Boulder, Colorado, and Basalt, Colorado. This role can be located from anywhere in t (cut off). The original
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities...). Likely they expect only those standard headings. But we could still use for each of those categories? Might be okay but they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. We should stick to those. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required and Preferred Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills? Benefits? Pay? Schedule? We only include sections that have real content. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements section. Also we have "Why This Role Matters" maybe could be part of About the role or separate? Not in list; but we could treat as About the role? Might be better to include as a separate section? The instruction says "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It doesn't restrict to only those headings; they gave examples. So we can add other headings like "Why This Role Matters" as Why This Role Matters
. That seems okay.
Similarly Location we can include as Location
.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose use
. So for responsibilities we have bullet points under each subcategory. We'll create a
with - items for each duty. Could also nest subheadings inside
- ? Probably better to keep flat list but preserve meaning. Could also include subheadings as inside
- . That's acceptable.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. That's a lot; we need to include essentially all bullet points.
Let's extract responsibilities:
Strategy & Thought Leadership:
- Develop and maintain RMI’s institutional theory of change for data centers, defining how rapid digital infrastructure growth affects the energy transition and where RMI can have the greatest impact.
- Identify the most important system-level barriers, leverage points, and interventions needed to align data center growth with clean energy deployment, grid reliability, affordability, decarbonization, and community outcomes.
- Establish a clear view of where RMI should play based on its technical expertise, market influence, analytical capabilities, convening power, and external relationships.
- Integrate perspectives from Electricity, Buildings, Industries, Intelligence, Climate Finance, Third Derivative, Transportation, policy, and other relevant teams into a coherent RMI data center strategy.
- Identify priority stakeholders whose decisions RMI should seek to influence, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, regulators, policymakers, investors, and communities.
- Define strategic and reputational guardrails for RMI’s data center work, including where RMI should — and should not — pursue commercial engagements.
- Monitor changing technology, market, policy, infrastructure, and investment conditions and adapt RMI’s strategy accordingly.
- Represent RMI as a senior thought leader on the intersection of data center growth, energy infrastructure, and the clean energy transition.
Market Development & External Engagement:
- Develop and execute RMI’s data center go-to-market strategy, translating the institutional theory of change into a focused set of commercial and partnership opportunities.
- Define priority client segments, buyers, pain points, and decisions where RMI has a differentiated right to win.
- Develop and market-test a portfolio of commercial offering hypotheses with external stakeholders and prospective clients.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, infrastructure investors, technology providers, and other priority stakeholders.
- Conduct senior-level market and client conversations to understand emerging needs and translate those needs into actionable opportunities for RMI.
- Partner closely with RMI’s Corporate Engagement team and program leaders to develop priority account strategies and a qualified pipeline of opportunities.
- Shape concept notes, proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, delivery approaches, and commercial models.
- Apply disciplined go/no-go and right-to-win criteria to prospective engagements.
- Support senior client discussions and negotiations through contract execution.
- Potential Commercial Offering Areas May Include (list):
- Power availability, procurement, and grid integration
- Flexible load and demand-side solutions
- Site selection and energy infrastructure strategy
- Clean firm power and backup generation
- Transmission and interconnection constraints
- Data center energy and emissions strategy
- Water use and cooling
- Low-carbon cement, steel, and construction materials
- Integration of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) on site or adjacent to data centers
- Sustainability standards and metric design for data centers
- Permitting, policy, and community considerations
- Data center financing and investment
- Cross-sector decarbonization strategies for hyperscalers and operators
Program Leadership & Delivery:
- Serve as the accountable engagement leader for large, strategically important data center projects spanning multiple RMI programs and capabilities.
- Translate complex and ambiguous client questions into structured workstreams, hypotheses, analytical approaches, and decision-oriented outputs.
- Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams drawing on expertise from across RMI.
- Define clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights between the central Impact Consulting team and program-based subject-matter experts.
- Maintain accountability for project scope, timeline, budget, quality, and client expectations.
- Synthesize technical inputs from multiple disciplines into clear, integrated, executive-level recommendations.
- Guide the production of rigorous, decision-grade presentations, reports, analyses, and other client deliverables.
- Lead executive client meetings, workshops, working sessions, and presentations.
- Identify project risks early and take corrective action before issues become client escalations.
- Identify and shape follow-on opportunities where additional work creates genuine mission and client value.
- Ensure lessons from delivery inform subsequent offerings, scopes, pricing, methodologies, and strategic priorities.
Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution:
- Create the connective tissue required for RMI to operate as an integrated data center platform rather than a collection of independent technical teams.
- Build strong relationships with relevant Principals, Senior Principals, Managing Directors, and subject-matter experts across the Institute.
- Develop and maintain a clear view of RMI’s relevant capabilities, experts, analytical assets, datasets, relationships, and existing data center work.
- Identify capability gaps that may require new analysis, external expertise, partnerships, data, or investment.
- Develop repeatable approaches for staffing and governing multidisciplinary data center engagements.
- Identify methodologies, analytical modules, frameworks, datasets, and deliverables that can be reused across clients and engagements.
- Convert recurring client needs into repeatable advisory offerings where appropriate.
- Capture and institutionalize knowledge from client engagements and external market interactions.
- Mentor and coach RMI staff working on data center and Impact Consulting engagements.
- Contribute to RMI’s broader leadership community and the continued development of the Institute’s Impact Consulting capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, energy infrastructure, or a closely related sector.
- Demonstrated understanding of the data center ecosystem and meaningful experience with several of the following:
- Hyperscale or colocation development
- Power availability and procurement
- Utility engagement and interconnection
- Site selection
- Data center design and construction
- Sustainability and decarbonization
- Permitting and regulatory issues
- Water and cooling
- Backup generation
- Infrastructure investment
- Proven experience developing and executing strategy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving market.
- Experience leading complex, senior-client-facing consulting, advisory, or strategic engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, synthesize complex analysis, and translate technical information into actionable executive recommendations.
- Experience developing new offerings, shaping client opportunities, and contributing to business development, proposals, or commercial pursuits.
- Strong project and team leadership skills, including experience managing multidisciplinary workstreams, timelines, budgets, scope, and stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to personally develop and shape high-quality analytical and client-facing deliverables.
- Ability to influence senior decision-makers and mobilize teams without direct reporting authority.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to bridge technical expertise and senior-level business decision-making across diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15+ years of professional experience with increasing strategic, commercial, and operational responsibility.
- Graduate degree in engineering, business, economics, public policy, energy, sustainability, or a related field.
- Direct experience working for or advising hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center developers, utilities serving large-load customers, or digital infrastructure investors.
- Experience in strategy or management consulting focused on data centers, energy, infrastructure, technology, or sustainability.
- Experience with data center development, site selection, energy procurement, infrastructure strategy, or investment.
- Demonstrated success building new market offerings or business lines.
- Strong existing network across the data center, energy, utility, technology, or infrastructure ecosystem.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary initiatives involving stakeholders across multiple organizations or sectors.
- Combination of industry operating experience and consulting/advisory experience.
Why This Role Matters:
- Paragraph: The rapid expansion of data centers represents both a major challenge and a significant opportunity for the clean energy transition. Decisions being made today about where and how data centers are built, powered, financed, and operated will influence electricity infrastructure, capital deployment, industrial demand, community outcomes, and emissions trajectories for decades. Few organizations have RMI’s combination of energy-system expertise, technical depth, market relationships, analytical capabilities, and convening power. At the same time, these capabilities are distributed across the Institute. This role will be responsible for bringing those capabilities together — establishing a coherent RMI strategy for data centers, identifying where RMI can create differentiated impact, translating that strategy into concrete market interventions and client offerings, and ensuring that RMI can execute complex cross-program work at a consistently high standard.
Location:
- Paragraph: We are a remote-ready company with team members around the globe. Our beautiful and welcoming offices are available for meetings or focused work, whether you are traveling through or living nearby. Our U.S. offices are in New York City; Washington DC; Oakland, California; Boulder, Colorado, and Basalt, Colorado. This role can be located from anywhere in t (cut off). The original
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests those are the allowed headings. We should stick to those. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Required and Preferred Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe separate?), Skills? Benefits? Pay? Schedule? We only include sections that have real content. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements section. Also we have "Why This Role Matters" maybe could be part of About the role or separate? Not in list; but we could treat as About the role? Might be better to include as a separate section? The instruction says "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It doesn't restrict to only those headings; they gave examples. So we can add other headings like "Why This Role Matters" as Why This Role Matters
. That seems okay.
Similarly Location we can include as Location
.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose use
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Let's extract responsibilities:
Strategy & Thought Leadership:
- Develop and maintain RMI’s institutional theory of change for data centers, defining how rapid digital infrastructure growth affects the energy transition and where RMI can have the greatest impact.
- Identify the most important system-level barriers, leverage points, and interventions needed to align data center growth with clean energy deployment, grid reliability, affordability, decarbonization, and community outcomes.
- Establish a clear view of where RMI should play based on its technical expertise, market influence, analytical capabilities, convening power, and external relationships.
- Integrate perspectives from Electricity, Buildings, Industries, Intelligence, Climate Finance, Third Derivative, Transportation, policy, and other relevant teams into a coherent RMI data center strategy.
- Identify priority stakeholders whose decisions RMI should seek to influence, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, regulators, policymakers, investors, and communities.
- Define strategic and reputational guardrails for RMI’s data center work, including where RMI should — and should not — pursue commercial engagements.
- Monitor changing technology, market, policy, infrastructure, and investment conditions and adapt RMI’s strategy accordingly.
- Represent RMI as a senior thought leader on the intersection of data center growth, energy infrastructure, and the clean energy transition.
Market Development & External Engagement:
- Develop and execute RMI’s data center go-to-market strategy, translating the institutional theory of change into a focused set of commercial and partnership opportunities.
- Define priority client segments, buyers, pain points, and decisions where RMI has a differentiated right to win.
- Develop and market-test a portfolio of commercial offering hypotheses with external stakeholders and prospective clients.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, infrastructure investors, technology providers, and other priority stakeholders.
- Conduct senior-level market and client conversations to understand emerging needs and translate those needs into actionable opportunities for RMI.
- Partner closely with RMI’s Corporate Engagement team and program leaders to develop priority account strategies and a qualified pipeline of opportunities.
- Shape concept notes, proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, delivery approaches, and commercial models.
- Apply disciplined go/no-go and right-to-win criteria to prospective engagements.
- Support senior client discussions and negotiations through contract execution.
- Potential Commercial Offering Areas May Include (list):
- Power availability, procurement, and grid integration
- Flexible load and demand-side solutions
- Site selection and energy infrastructure strategy
- Clean firm power and backup generation
- Transmission and interconnection constraints
- Data center energy and emissions strategy
- Water use and cooling
- Low-carbon cement, steel, and construction materials
- Integration of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) on site or adjacent to data centers
- Sustainability standards and metric design for data centers
- Permitting, policy, and community considerations
- Data center financing and investment
- Cross-sector decarbonization strategies for hyperscalers and operators
Program Leadership & Delivery:
- Serve as the accountable engagement leader for large, strategically important data center projects spanning multiple RMI programs and capabilities.
- Translate complex and ambiguous client questions into structured workstreams, hypotheses, analytical approaches, and decision-oriented outputs.
- Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams drawing on expertise from across RMI.
- Define clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights between the central Impact Consulting team and program-based subject-matter experts.
- Maintain accountability for project scope, timeline, budget, quality, and client expectations.
- Synthesize technical inputs from multiple disciplines into clear, integrated, executive-level recommendations.
- Guide the production of rigorous, decision-grade presentations, reports, analyses, and other client deliverables.
- Lead executive client meetings, workshops, working sessions, and presentations.
- Identify project risks early and take corrective action before issues become client escalations.
- Identify and shape follow-on opportunities where additional work creates genuine mission and client value.
- Ensure lessons from delivery inform subsequent offerings, scopes, pricing, methodologies, and strategic priorities.
Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution:
- Create the connective tissue required for RMI to operate as an integrated data center platform rather than a collection of independent technical teams.
- Build strong relationships with relevant Principals, Senior Principals, Managing Directors, and subject-matter experts across the Institute.
- Develop and maintain a clear view of RMI’s relevant capabilities, experts, analytical assets, datasets, relationships, and existing data center work.
- Identify capability gaps that may require new analysis, external expertise, partnerships, data, or investment.
- Develop repeatable approaches for staffing and governing multidisciplinary data center engagements.
- Identify methodologies, analytical modules, frameworks, datasets, and deliverables that can be reused across clients and engagements.
- Convert recurring client needs into repeatable advisory offerings where appropriate.
- Capture and institutionalize knowledge from client engagements and external market interactions.
- Mentor and coach RMI staff working on data center and Impact Consulting engagements.
- Contribute to RMI’s broader leadership community and the continued development of the Institute’s Impact Consulting capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, energy infrastructure, or a closely related sector.
- Demonstrated understanding of the data center ecosystem and meaningful experience with several of the following:
- Hyperscale or colocation development
- Power availability and procurement
- Utility engagement and interconnection
- Site selection
- Data center design and construction
- Sustainability and decarbonization
- Permitting and regulatory issues
- Water and cooling
- Backup generation
- Infrastructure investment
- Proven experience developing and executing strategy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving market.
- Experience leading complex, senior-client-facing consulting, advisory, or strategic engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, synthesize complex analysis, and translate technical information into actionable executive recommendations.
- Experience developing new offerings, shaping client opportunities, and contributing to business development, proposals, or commercial pursuits.
- Strong project and team leadership skills, including experience managing multidisciplinary workstreams, timelines, budgets, scope, and stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to personally develop and shape high-quality analytical and client-facing deliverables.
- Ability to influence senior decision-makers and mobilize teams without direct reporting authority.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to bridge technical expertise and senior-level business decision-making across diverse stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15+ years of professional experience with increasing strategic, commercial, and operational responsibility.
- Graduate degree in engineering, business, economics, public policy, energy, sustainability, or a related field.
- Direct experience working for or advising hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center developers, utilities serving large-load customers, or digital infrastructure investors.
- Experience in strategy or management consulting focused on data centers, energy, infrastructure, technology, or sustainability.
- Experience with data center development, site selection, energy procurement, infrastructure strategy, or investment.
- Demonstrated success building new market offerings or business lines.
- Strong existing network across the data center, energy, utility, technology, or infrastructure ecosystem.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary initiatives involving stakeholders across multiple organizations or sectors.
- Combination of industry operating experience and consulting/advisory experience.
Why This Role Matters:
- Paragraph: The rapid expansion of data centers represents both a major challenge and a significant opportunity for the clean energy transition. Decisions being made today about where and how data centers are built, powered, financed, and operated will influence electricity infrastructure, capital deployment, industrial demand, community outcomes, and emissions trajectories for decades. Few organizations have RMI’s combination of energy-system expertise, technical depth, market relationships, analytical capabilities, and convening power. At the same time, these capabilities are distributed across the Institute. This role will be responsible for bringing those capabilities together — establishing a coherent RMI strategy for data centers, identifying where RMI can create differentiated impact, translating that strategy into concrete market interventions and client offerings, and ensuring that RMI can execute complex cross-program work at a consistently high standard.
Location:
- Paragraph: We are a remote-ready company with team members around the globe. Our beautiful and welcoming offices are available for meetings or focused work, whether you are traveling through or living nearby. Our U.S. offices are in New York City; Washington DC; Oakland, California; Boulder, Colorado, and Basalt, Colorado. This role can be located from anywhere in t (cut off). The original
. So for responsibilities we have bullet points under each subcategory. We'll create a
- with
- items for each duty. Could also nest subheadings inside
- ? Probably better to keep flat list but preserve meaning. Could also include subheadings as inside
- . That's acceptable. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. That's a lot; we need to include essentially all bullet points. Let's extract responsibilities: Strategy & Thought Leadership: - Develop and maintain RMI’s institutional theory of change for data centers, defining how rapid digital infrastructure growth affects the energy transition and where RMI can have the greatest impact. - Identify the most important system-level barriers, leverage points, and interventions needed to align data center growth with clean energy deployment, grid reliability, affordability, decarbonization, and community outcomes. - Establish a clear view of where RMI should play based on its technical expertise, market influence, analytical capabilities, convening power, and external relationships. - Integrate perspectives from Electricity, Buildings, Industries, Intelligence, Climate Finance, Third Derivative, Transportation, policy, and other relevant teams into a coherent RMI data center strategy. - Identify priority stakeholders whose decisions RMI should seek to influence, including hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, regulators, policymakers, investors, and communities. - Define strategic and reputational guardrails for RMI’s data center work, including where RMI should — and should not — pursue commercial engagements. - Monitor changing technology, market, policy, infrastructure, and investment conditions and adapt RMI’s strategy accordingly. - Represent RMI as a senior thought leader on the intersection of data center growth, energy infrastructure, and the clean energy transition. Market Development & External Engagement: - Develop and execute RMI’s data center go-to-market strategy, translating the institutional theory of change into a focused set of commercial and partnership opportunities. - Define priority client segments, buyers, pain points, and decisions where RMI has a differentiated right to win. - Develop and market-test a portfolio of commercial offering hypotheses with external stakeholders and prospective clients. - Identify and cultivate relationships with hyperscalers, colocation providers, developers, utilities, infrastructure investors, technology providers, and other priority stakeholders. - Conduct senior-level market and client conversations to understand emerging needs and translate those needs into actionable opportunities for RMI. - Partner closely with RMI’s Corporate Engagement team and program leaders to develop priority account strategies and a qualified pipeline of opportunities. - Shape concept notes, proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, delivery approaches, and commercial models. - Apply disciplined go/no-go and right-to-win criteria to prospective engagements. - Support senior client discussions and negotiations through contract execution. - Potential Commercial Offering Areas May Include (list): - Power availability, procurement, and grid integration - Flexible load and demand-side solutions - Site selection and energy infrastructure strategy - Clean firm power and backup generation - Transmission and interconnection constraints - Data center energy and emissions strategy - Water use and cooling - Low-carbon cement, steel, and construction materials - Integration of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) on site or adjacent to data centers - Sustainability standards and metric design for data centers - Permitting, policy, and community considerations - Data center financing and investment - Cross-sector decarbonization strategies for hyperscalers and operators Program Leadership & Delivery: - Serve as the accountable engagement leader for large, strategically important data center projects spanning multiple RMI programs and capabilities. - Translate complex and ambiguous client questions into structured workstreams, hypotheses, analytical approaches, and decision-oriented outputs. - Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams drawing on expertise from across RMI. - Define clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights between the central Impact Consulting team and program-based subject-matter experts. - Maintain accountability for project scope, timeline, budget, quality, and client expectations. - Synthesize technical inputs from multiple disciplines into clear, integrated, executive-level recommendations. - Guide the production of rigorous, decision-grade presentations, reports, analyses, and other client deliverables. - Lead executive client meetings, workshops, working sessions, and presentations. - Identify project risks early and take corrective action before issues become client escalations. - Identify and shape follow-on opportunities where additional work creates genuine mission and client value. - Ensure lessons from delivery inform subsequent offerings, scopes, pricing, methodologies, and strategic priorities. Cross-Program Integration & Organizational Contribution: - Create the connective tissue required for RMI to operate as an integrated data center platform rather than a collection of independent technical teams. - Build strong relationships with relevant Principals, Senior Principals, Managing Directors, and subject-matter experts across the Institute. - Develop and maintain a clear view of RMI’s relevant capabilities, experts, analytical assets, datasets, relationships, and existing data center work. - Identify capability gaps that may require new analysis, external expertise, partnerships, data, or investment. - Develop repeatable approaches for staffing and governing multidisciplinary data center engagements. - Identify methodologies, analytical modules, frameworks, datasets, and deliverables that can be reused across clients and engagements. - Convert recurring client needs into repeatable advisory offerings where appropriate. - Capture and institutionalize knowledge from client engagements and external market interactions. - Mentor and coach RMI staff working on data center and Impact Consulting engagements. - Contribute to RMI’s broader leadership community and the continued development of the Institute’s Impact Consulting capabilities. Required Qualifications: - 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, energy infrastructure, or a closely related sector. - Demonstrated understanding of the data center ecosystem and meaningful experience with several of the following: - Hyperscale or colocation development - Power availability and procurement - Utility engagement and interconnection - Site selection - Data center design and construction - Sustainability and decarbonization - Permitting and regulatory issues - Water and cooling - Backup generation - Infrastructure investment - Proven experience developing and executing strategy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving market. - Experience leading complex, senior-client-facing consulting, advisory, or strategic engagements. - Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, synthesize complex analysis, and translate technical information into actionable executive recommendations. - Experience developing new offerings, shaping client opportunities, and contributing to business development, proposals, or commercial pursuits. - Strong project and team leadership skills, including experience managing multidisciplinary workstreams, timelines, budgets, scope, and stakeholder expectations. - Demonstrated ability to personally develop and shape high-quality analytical and client-facing deliverables. - Ability to influence senior decision-makers and mobilize teams without direct reporting authority. - Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills. - Ability to bridge technical expertise and senior-level business decision-making across diverse stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications: - 15+ years of professional experience with increasing strategic, commercial, and operational responsibility. - Graduate degree in engineering, business, economics, public policy, energy, sustainability, or a related field. - Direct experience working for or advising hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center developers, utilities serving large-load customers, or digital infrastructure investors. - Experience in strategy or management consulting focused on data centers, energy, infrastructure, technology, or sustainability. - Experience with data center development, site selection, energy procurement, infrastructure strategy, or investment. - Demonstrated success building new market offerings or business lines. - Strong existing network across the data center, energy, utility, technology, or infrastructure ecosystem. - Experience leading large, multidisciplinary initiatives involving stakeholders across multiple organizations or sectors. - Combination of industry operating experience and consulting/advisory experience. Why This Role Matters: - Paragraph: The rapid expansion of data centers represents both a major challenge and a significant opportunity for the clean energy transition. Decisions being made today about where and how data centers are built, powered, financed, and operated will influence electricity infrastructure, capital deployment, industrial demand, community outcomes, and emissions trajectories for decades. Few organizations have RMI’s combination of energy-system expertise, technical depth, market relationships, analytical capabilities, and convening power. At the same time, these capabilities are distributed across the Institute. This role will be responsible for bringing those capabilities together — establishing a coherent RMI strategy for data centers, identifying where RMI can create differentiated impact, translating that strategy into concrete market interventions and client offerings, and ensuring that RMI can execute complex cross-program work at a consistently high standard. Location: - Paragraph: We are a remote-ready company with team members around the globe. Our beautiful and welcoming offices are available for meetings or focused work, whether you are traveling through or living nearby. Our U.S. offices are in New York City; Washington DC; Oakland, California; Boulder, Colorado, and Basalt, Colorado. This role can be located from anywhere in t (cut off). The original