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Owns full-cycle recruiting for commercial roles, partnering with hiring managers and executives to define hiring strategies, source talent, build pipelines, and deliver an inclusive candidate experience. The recruiter will focus on finance, fintech, banking, advisory, clean energy, and infrastructure markets; analyze recruiting metrics; improve hiring processes; and advise leadership on attracting top commercial talent in a fast-growing startup.

Leads go-to-market strategy, positioning, messaging, customer insights, competitive intelligence, and commercial enablement for capital solutions serving clean energy developers and sponsors. Partners with product, commercial, and marketing leaders to translate financing needs into differentiated offerings, sales tools, training, and measurable growth initiatives. Requires clean energy project development and financing expertise, strong B2B marketing experience, analytical judgment, and cross-functional influence.

Build and maintain production data pipelines and foundational datasets for Market Intelligence. Automate survey ingestion, cleaning, joining, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting-layer integration. Develop repeatable queries, improve data quality practices, document assumptions, support reproducible outputs, and translate research needs into technical solutions. The role requires close collaboration with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and ownership of reliable data infrastructure.

Lead renewable energy tax and preferred equity transaction structuring from screening through closing. Build and stress-test complex partnership models, underwrite opportunities, prepare investment committee materials, coordinate legal, tax, technical, and commercial diligence, negotiate transaction terms, manage client relationships, improve technology-enabled workflows, and mentor Associates. The role focuses on partnership flips, hybrid structures, preferred equity, portfolio reporting, and clean energy infrastructure finance.

Supports debt capital markets transactions for renewable energy and infrastructure clients through financial modeling, structuring, diligence, credit analysis, transaction materials, and capital provider coordination. The Associate also supports advisory mandates, client meetings, market intelligence, process improvements, and technology-enabled financing workflows. The role requires at least two years of relevant finance experience, strong Excel and modeling skills, and familiarity with renewable energy or structured finance.

Supports screening, underwriting, modeling, structuring, and closing of tax equity and preferred equity transactions in renewable energy and infrastructure. Responsibilities include analyzing sponsor financials, contracts, diligence materials, transaction economics, risks, portfolio performance, and investment committee materials. The Associate also improves financial models and workflows, uses AI-enabled tools, supports external stakeholders, and contributes to technology-enabled financing initiatives.

Leads renewable-energy debt transactions from initial indication of interest through closing, including structuring, lender diligence, negotiation, documentation, credit memos, pricing, and committee presentations. Owns transaction velocity and revenue targets, mentors deal teams, develops financing structures and lender programs, and partners with investments, product, engineering, and industry coverage teams. Drives standardized execution processes and AI-enabled modeling while representing the company in industry forums.

Leads renewable energy debt transactions from initial indication of interest through closing, overseeing structuring, lender diligence, negotiation, documentation, credit memos, pricing, and committee presentations. Manages deal teams, mentors junior staff, develops financing products and execution processes, and partners with lenders, investors, coverage, product, and engineering teams. The role also drives transaction performance, AI-enabled automation, and market engagement across construction, term, back-leverage, tax equity bridge, equipment financing, green bond, and securitization transactions.

Leads and scales Crux’s partnerships program across referral, product-enabled, and research initiatives. Manages institutional relationships, partner acquisition, enablement, commercial agreements, platform adoption, events, and thought leadership. Builds scalable operating infrastructure, attribution models, and performance metrics while coordinating across product, research, legal, commercial, content, events, and operations teams. Leads four direct reports and expands the partnership organization.

Own and grow strategic partnerships with accounting and tax advisory firms, particularly enterprise and mid-market partners. Build referral and co-sell programs, cultivate partner champions, improve enablement and conversion, manage attribution and pipeline, and collaborate with commercial, marketing, and market intelligence teams. The role focuses on connecting tax credit buyers and tax equity investors with clean energy projects and includes approximately 25% travel for partner meetings, conferences, and roadshows.