Senior Director, Energy Capital & Strategy

What You Will Do

(Job Responsibilities)

Enterprise Energy Strategy & Capital Governance

• Own and govern the enterprise energy capital and power readiness strategy, ensuring alignment with long-range growth plans, capital allocation priorities, and risk appetite.
• Establish a structured framework to evaluate, prioritize, and sequence power-related investments across markets and development stages.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on energy-related risk, capital exposure, and readiness constraints.

Utility Risk Classification & Tiering

• Design and implement a utility risk tiering framework to consistently classify markets, utilities, and projects based on readiness, reliability, regulatory exposure, and execution risk.
• Ensure utility risk classifications directly inform site selection, capital planning, development pacing, and executive decision-making.

Power Readiness Gates

• Create and enforce power readiness gates across the development lifecycle, defining clear criteria for progression from early feasibility through execution and delivery.
• Ensure power readiness gating is embedded into investment approvals, development milestones, and capital committee processes.

Early Warning Indicators & Risk Management

• Develop and maintain a suite of early-warning indicators to identify emerging utility, regulatory, capacity, or execution risks before they impact schedule, cost, or customer commitments.
• Lead proactive mitigation planning and escalation for identified risks, ensuring clear ownership and accountability.

Utility Risk Review & Controls

• Chair or lead recurring utility risk review forums, providing structured oversight, consistent reporting, and decision transparency.
• Ensure risks, assumptions, and dependencies are documented, tracked, and communicated to senior leadership and governance bodies.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams spanning Energy Strategy, Utility Engagement, Development, Investments, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and Operations.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders to ensure disciplined execution, consistent standards, and enterprise-level risk visibility.
• Influence without direct authority while setting clear expectations, frameworks, and decision criteria.

Operating Model Maturity

• Transition the organization from informal practices to repeatable, auditable, and scalable systems for energy capital and utility risk management.
• Define metrics, dashboards, and reporting that provide leadership with clear insight into readiness, risk exposure, and portfolio health.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful

(Required Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following disciplines (or a closely related field): Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or Industrial), Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics or Applied Analytics, Operations Research or Systems Engineering, or other
• 10 or more years of professional experience with progressive responsibility in energy strategy, capital planning, infrastructure development, utility engagement, risk management, or related enterprise strategy roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing decision-making across Development, Energy, Utilities, Investments, Finance, Legal, and Operations.
• Proven ability to drive strategic planning, governance frameworks, and business growth in capital-intensive or infrastructure-dependent environments.
• Masters's degree in one of the following disciplines (or a closely related field): Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or Industrial), Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics or Applied Analytics, Operations Research or Systems Engineering, or other

Nice to Have

(Preferred Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

• 15 or more years of professional experience with progressive responsibility in energy strategy, capital planning, infrastructure development, utility engagement, risk management, or related enterprise strategy roles.

Other Key Skills: (KSAs)

• Strong grounding in systems thinking, risk classification, and governance models.
• Ability to translate technical, regulatory, and utility-specific inputs into enterprise-level strategy and capital decisions.
• Experience designing and operating stage-gate models, readiness frameworks, and early-warning indicators.
• Executive-level communication skills with comfort presenting complex risk and capital tradeoffs to senior leadership and governance forums.

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• Masters's degree in one of the following disciplines (or a closely related field): Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or Industrial), Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics or Applied Analytics, Operations Research or Systems Engineering, or other specific position description.

Pay and benefits

In accordance with applicable law, the following represents a reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation for this role if hired in Virginia. Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Virginia only, and this role is open to candidates outside of Virginia with compensation that aligns with your location. The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

The estimated pay range for this role, if based in Virginia, is

$184,567.50 - 282,252.93

Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Virginia only, and this role is open to candidates outside of Virginia with compensation that aligns with your location. The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

In addition to a variety of benefit packages, QTS goes above and beyond for our employees:

• Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting
• Every employee is bonus or commission eligible
• Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Days Plus Floating Holidays
• Stock Purchase Plan (SPP)
• 11 paid Holidays Annually/Holiday compensation when worked
• Pet and Legal Insurance
• Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
• Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
• Parental Leave
• Military Benefits Package
• QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
• QTS Scholarship for Employee Dependents
• QTS Crisis Fund
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

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