Wind Development Leader

A typical week often involves portfolio strategy, deal pursuit, executive engagement, and team leadership — sitting with originators on new sites, prepping pipeline reviews for executives, working through complex permitting or interconnection issues, fielding capital-partner questions. You're often the senior voice when development-pipeline decisions involve material capital commitment. Megawatts permitted, projects to NTP, and pipeline IRR are the visible measures.

The harder part is often the high attrition rate of development sites — many sites die during permitting, interconnection, or financing, and the senior leader manages a pipeline knowing only a portion will materialize. Variance across employers is sharp: at major renewable developers you have deep infrastructure; at smaller or growing developers you're building the team and processes as you go.

People who tend to thrive here have commercial real-estate fluency, deep regulatory and interconnection patience, and the financial literacy to lead capital conversations. The trade-off is the multi-year development arc and the strategic risk that policy, technology, or market shifts can move the ground under projects in progress.