Key Responsibilities

Revenue Generation & Opportunity Tracking (40%)

• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, including direct-to-client engagements, strategic teaming arrangements, and co-development deals.

• Respond to public and private RFPs, RFIs, and grant solicitations for DER, BESS, and microgrid deployment independently and in partnership with technical leads.

• Develop prospect pipelines, manage CRM entries, and track opportunity progress through lifecycle stages.

• Collaborate with technical, legal, and financial teams to support pricing, scoping, and proposal development.

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Partnership & Market Development (30%)

• Collaborate with managing partners to build and manage long-term relationships with strategic public partners, including national laboratories, utilities, transmission/distribution balancing authorities, utility regulators, state and local governments, tribal governments, building and fire authorities having jurisdiction, emergency managers, and energy managers.

• Collaborate with managing partners to build and manage long-term relationships with strategic private partners, including commercial and industrial businesses, project developers, clean energy EPCs, energy buyers, clean energy equipment providers, battery energy storage manufacturers, and balance of system suppliers.

• Identify emerging clean energy needs within new and existing markets, particularly related to distributed storage, resiliency, and decarbonization.

• Represent CR at industry events, conferences, and roundtables, building visibility and trust across sectors.

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Wholesale Market Strategy (20%)

• Support CR’s strategic positioning for wholesale energy market participation, including standalone and aggregated storage projects.

• Lead market intelligence on day-ahead markets, ISO/RTO rules, resource adequacy, and grid service participation.

• Help establish partnerships or pathways to deploy BESS assets for participation in CAISO, WEIM, and other evolving energy markets (SPP/Markets+).

• Collaborate on technical and financial modeling for new market-facing storage project opportunities.

• Help define CR’s market entry strategy for priority regions beyond the PNW, including CAISO, SPP, ERCOT, NYISO, MISO, PJM, and Alaska.

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Internal Strategy & Brand Development (10%)

• Work with the executive team to shape CR’s business development roadmap and market positioning.

• Contribute to marketing materials, capability statements, and responses to partner inquiries.

• Provide cross-functional support to the design, engineering, and policy teams as needed during early-stage project pursuit.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business development, project development, or partnerships in the renewable energy or clean tech sector.

• Deep understanding of distributed energy, storage, or microgrid project lifecycles.

• Proven ability to lead external relationships across public, private, and tribal sectors.

• Strong writing, negotiation, and proposal development skills.

• Familiarity with the DER ecosystem, including energy storage policies, wholesale market structures, and utility engagement strategies.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distribution-scale and utility-scale energy storage and renewable energy development.

• Understanding of wholesale market dynamics (e.g., CAISO, WEIM, SPP, MISO, PJM, ERCOT) and grid service revenue models.

• Familiarity with grant funding (DOE, CEC, FEMA, tribal resilience funds, etc.).

• Comfort responding to complex RFPs, teaming agreements, and regulatory filings.

• Experience working with tribal nations or local government clients is a plus.

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Career Growth & Impact

You’ll help shape how Cascadia Renewables expands from a regional leader into a nationally trusted partner in distributed energy and energy storage. Long-term opportunities may include:

• Leading regional market strategy teams.

• Leading CR Business Development

• Managing a portfolio of national partnerships.

This is a high-impact, high-trust role where your work will directly drive new clean energy capacity in frontline communities, critical infrastructure, and underserved markets.

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You will be successful if:

• You enjoy hard work and describe yourself as curious, humble, proactive, and resourceful. 

• You’re a connector who is comfortable aligning client needs, partner capabilities, and technical vision. 

• You create compelling project opportunities while setting realistic and clear expectations.

• You balance ambition with credibility, and know when to push, when to listen, and when to partner.

• You thrive in dynamic market conditions and can see around corners in both policy and technology trends.

• You’re energized by the complexity of distributed energy markets and excited to build something new in an emerging landscape.

• You believe business development is ultimately about service and helping people solve hard problems in ways that align with shared values.

We believe diverse teams build better systems. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and especially encourage women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ individuals, veterans, and others historically underrepresented in the energy sector to apply.

To Apply:

Please submit your resume, cover letter, and relevant project portfolio to hr@cascadiarenewables.com with the subject line "Project Developer". We look forward to reviewing your application.