Solar Business Developer

Most days tend to involve a blend of customer or partner meetings, deal structuring, and cross-functional coordination with engineering, finance, and operations partners. You'll often spend part of the time on the long-cycle work of permits, interconnection, and financing, and part on active deal pipeline management and partner relationships.

The harder part is often the policy and market volatility of solar combined with the long-cycle nature of project development. You'll typically coordinate with regulators, utilities, customers, and capital providers, where deals often hinge on factors outside your direct control.

People who tend to thrive here are commercially instinctive, comfortable with policy and market change, and skilled at the relationship work of solar deal-making. The trade-off is the cyclical nature of solar markets and the cumulative work of carrying long deal cycles. If you find satisfaction in closing solar deals that produce clean energy for years, the role can be a strong destination at a meaningful intersection of technology and commercial work.