Leads capital formation strategy and origination for tax equity, preferred equity, debt, and project finance facilities. Oversees the Capital Markets team, negotiates financing documents, manages capital-provider relationships, develops scalable processes, and partners with Finance and executive leadership on liquidity, forecasting, covenant management, and enterprise financing strategy. Regular travel is expected to maintain investor, bank, and capital-provider relationships.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Vice President of Capital Markets is responsible for leading the capital formation strategy, origination, and execution of all financings, including tax equity, preferred equity, and debt facilities. This role will oversee the Capital Markets team, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution while building scalable processes that support the enterprise capital strategy.
This role will focus on day-to-day leadership and origination of capital sources: mentoring team members, managing negotiations and closings, refining workflows to ensure capital origination functions scale efficiently and responsibly, and relationship building and maintenance. This role would be expected to travel regularly to build and maintain those relationships. The VP will partner with the VP of Project Finance, VP of Corporate Finance, and the CFO on broader financing strategy.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead day-to-day origination of all project finance facilities, including tax equity, preferred equity, development loans, and construction facilities, to support the long-term financing strategy.
- Negotiate legal and operative transaction documents in partnership with counsel and advisors, ensuring alignment with strategic capital objectives and terms that maximize commercial impact, optimize execution efficiency, and streamline reporting requirements.
- Manage and mentor Capital Markets team members, developing technical and leadership skills.
- Drive continuous improvement of Capital Markets processes, documentation standards, and origination practices.
- Collaborate with Finance leadership and executive team on capital formation strategy.
- Execute upon Capital Markets strategy, including the origination of facilities, structures, and relationships that are needed today and looking forward to support the business.
- Establish feedback loops with Project Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and commercial operations functions to integrate historical and forecasted performance data into liquidity planning, capital access, and investor communications.
- Partner with Corporate Finance to integrate Capital Markets insights into enterprise forecasting, liquidity planning, and covenant management.
- Build scalable processes with Project Delivery, O&M, Asset Management, and Revenue Operations to connect operations and capital strategy.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Minimum of 8+ years in project finance, capital markets, corporate finance, or a similar position.
- Proven track record of structuring and leading complex financings at scale (tax equity, preferred equity, debt for renewable projects and portfolios).
- Demonstrated success in senior leadership: developing leaders, shaping organizational design, driving cross-functional alignment.
- Strong external presence with capital providers, banks, and investors.
- Systems-level thinker with the ability to balance execution oversight and strategic design.
- Excellent judgment, discretion, and executive communication skills.
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- Familiarity with ERP systems and financial reporting platforms (e.g., Intacct, Procore) and their integration across departments.
- Proven track record of executive-level relationship management with banks, investors, and rating agencies.
- Demonstrated ability to design and scale organizations – creating new management layers, building succession plans, and fostering leadership at multiple levels.
- Experience representing Finance in cross-functional executive committees or boards, influencing strategy beyond financing.
- Familiarity with generative AI tools and methods and an ability to experiment with and adopt impactful automation through thoughtful design of human and AI workflows.
Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
· Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
· Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
· Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
· Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
· Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
· Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
Pivot Energy Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
444 W Lake St., Chicago, IL, United States, 60606
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