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About the Role
Redwood Materials is building its powered land development function from the ground up to source, evaluate, and advance sites for solar and storage deployments. This role will focus on site selection, permitting, local stakeholder engagement, and managing the financial and operational aspects of converting land opportunities into executable projects.
Responsibilities
- Source, screen, and evaluate prospective sites for solar and storage deployments, including land use, zoning, and fatal-flaw analysis.
- Lead entitlement and permitting strategy, engaging with local, county, and state officials, community stakeholders, and land agents.
- Support government affairs and community relations efforts tied to prospective sites.
- Negotiate and secure site control agreements with landowners and land agents.
- Represent Redwood with landowners, brokers, customers, and officials, including negotiating economic development, tax, and community agreements.
- Develop and own financial and valuation models to assess site economics, development costs, and project returns.
- Build and maintain tracking tools for land inventory, pipeline status, budgets, and schedules.
- Manage site-identification tasks against budgets and schedules, coordinating internal and external technical support.
- Maintain disciplined pipeline tracking and reporting to inform leadership of site status, risk, and timeline.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in energy project development, real estate development, or land acquisition, ideally including utility-scale solar, storage, or data center site development.
- Demonstrated experience navigating local and county-level permitting, zoning, and entitlement processes.
- Track record of independently sourcing and negotiating site control agreements with landowners and land agents.
- Working knowledge of financial and valuation modeling to evaluate project economics.
- Experience engaging and building relationships with local government officials and community stakeholders.
- Ability to independently build processes and tools for a function with limited existing infrastructure.
- Ability to travel extensively to support site visits, diligence, and stakeholder engagement across target markets.
Skills
- Real estate development
- Engineering
- Business
- Planning
- Energy project development
- Land acquisition
- Utility-scale solar site development
- Storage site development
- Data center site development
- Permitting
- Zoning
- Entitlement processes
- Site control agreements
- Financial modeling
- Valuation modeling
- Community stakeholder engagement
- Process building
- Tool building
Location
- California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in real estate development, engineering, business, planning, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $242,500—$320,000 USD
About the Company
- Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, with the mission to recover, refine, and redeploy critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America.
- The company has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, powering AI data centers.
- Redwood is profitable and operates in a market projected to grow significantly.
- Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, technology, and operational scale to lead the energy transition mineral recovery market.