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# Development Manager (Energy & Infrastructure) at Paces

- **Company:** Paces
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/paces/am9icG9zdDqYzDFqpvGihJp1gK0QwpkN

## Job description

🌎 The Opportunity In the next 30 years, the world will transform every part of the built environment to be climate positive green infrastructure. But [today’s renewable energy development process](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/lbnls-nationwide-interconnection-survey-has-good-news-and-bad-news-for-clean-energy) can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are providing software and services to accelerate power development and unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy. 🛠️ Our Solution Paces is building the development engine for renewable infrastructure and power projects. We have built Agentic AI that automates early-stage due diligence and pairs it with in-house expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence. The result: projects move from siting to construction-ready in a fraction of the time. Our platform streamlines siting, interconnection, and permitting for renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, and more. 🧑‍🎨 Our Team We are building a team where people can proudly say their time at Paces is the most impactful, meaningful work of their career. Our amazing team in [Brooklyn](https://maps.app.goo.gl/vE3Ewm1m9xRXY2SVA), New York includes incredible team members from tech companies like Meta AI, DeepMind, and Tesla; various high growth startups; as well as industry leaders from TotalEnergies, ConEdison and GE. Paces is growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join who want to have a massive positive climate impact while building a great culture! We are looking for a Development Manager to join our Development-as-a-Service team, reporting directly to the Head of Development.

🏆 What You’ll Achieve

- Lead development engagements from site origination through permitting and interconnection- Site Origination: Run greenfield and acquisition workflows end-to-end: screening, landowner outreach, contract negotiation, and economic modeling.
- Interconnection: Manage utility coordination, power flow analysis, and interconnection applications across transmission and distribution projects.
- Permitting: Understand required permitting pathways, identify key stakeholders, and prepare and submit permit applications.
- Build automation systems that scale- Build tooling and playbooks that reduce cycle time across site evaluation, diligence, and reporting.
- Surface product roadmap inputs from frontline development delivery pain points.
- Be the Voice of the Developer- Keep siting, permitting, and power products grounded in what developers encounter on the ground.
- File actionable tickets, surface patterns across engagements, and participate in design and product reviews.
- Develop the team and codify knowledge- Mentor Associate members of the team, build onboarding and project playbooks, and raise the bar on how Paces delivers at scale.
- Act as a domain expert within Paces to shape internal methodologies and educate other teams.

📈 Requirements

- 5+ years of exceptional experience in renewable energy development, data center infrastructure, or power project development. Relevant roles include Project Developer, Development Engineer, Data Center Origination Manager, Interconnection Analyst, Site Acquisition Manager, or Solutions Engineer at a developer, consultancy, or IPP.
- Proven track record of moving projects from siting through NTP: negotiating land agreements, driving interconnection applications, navigating permitting, and modeling project economics.
- Comfort with GIS, data analysis, AI coding tools, and utility planning portals.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage relationships across C-suite customers, utilities, offtakers, and internal technical teams simultaneously.

✨ About You

- You wake up excited about grid infrastructure, climate tech, or the data-center energy arms race.
- You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and can translate complex utility or regulatory processes into actionable next steps.
- You think like a developer, not just a consultant. You care whether the project actually gets built, and you take ownership of outcomes.
- You thrive in ambiguity and find fulfillment in solving un-scoped problems while managing multiple concurrent work streams
- You have a meticulous attention to detail and a passion for getting it right, whether that’s a zoning map, load flow model, or customer proposal.

🚀 Bonus Points

- Prior experience in project acquisitions or M&A diligence, sourcing deals, evaluating development-stage assets, reviewing data rooms, or supporting transaction execution.
- Experience at a high-growth startup, or in a client-embedded role where you were accountable to someone else's timeline and capital.
- Hands-on comfort with scripting tools, AI coding tools, and a passion to automate repetitive tasks.
- Deep knowledge of data center load profiles, large load interconnection, or energy procurement for hyperscale or co-location customers.

💰 Compensation and Benefits

- $140,000 - $170,000 annual compensation
- Competitive equity compensation
- 401(k) match
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Paid company holidays & PTO
- Hybrid work in the office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~3x per week

☀️ About Paces 🛠️ If you’re a [builder](https://substack.com/home/post/p-200906238) who wants to actively construct a more climate positive future, join us! 🗺️ We are enabling the [climate optimum use for all the world’s land](https://www.jamesmcwalter.com/post/optimum) and are thought leaders in the evolving [data center](https://offgridai.us/) and [renewables](https://www.paces.com/white-papers/pre-development-at-scale-modeling-risk-in-early-stage-solar-development) markets. 🌞 We have world class customers and are growing! 📢 We've raised +$18M led by [Navitas Capital](https://www.navitascap.com/portfolio) and [Resolute Ventures](https://resolute.vc/) and [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/).

## About Paces

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paces is an AI-powered platform that accelerates renewable energy and data center infrastructure development by automating early-stage site diligence, de-risking projects, and shortening the path to shovel-ready.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: James McWalter (CEO) and Charles Bai (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Renewable energy infrastructure / Clean energy software
- **Target customers**: Renewable energy developers, data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, heavy energy users (e.g., hydrogen plants, direct air capture), and financial firms evaluating green assets
- **Mission**: To become the development engine for power projects and renewable infrastructure, enabling teams to move from siting to construction-ready in a fraction of the time.

## Products & Services
- **Paces AI Agent**: An AI agent that autonomously completes key workflows for site viability, grid constraint assessment, and permitting analysis.
- **Paces Software Platform**: A unified stack of software, modular reports, and expert-validated services that automates early-stage due diligence and accelerates late-stage diligence.
- **Power and Permitting Reports**: Expert-validated reports delivered at 5× speed, combining human expertise with AI to provide actionable results.
- **Development-as-a-Service (DaaS)**: In-house development management services for late-stage diligence, including transmission planning and power market analysis.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$13.9M** (Series A of $11M led by Navitas Capital, with prior rounds from Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures, Y Combinator
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 58 employees (LinkedIn), growing rapidly with 13 open positions
  - Workforce distributed across United States, Mexico, and Australia
  - LinkedIn followers: 8,220 (yearly growth +53.4%)
  - Claims to help developers reach power up to 3× faster and halve time to shovel-ready

## Competitive Advantages
- **Rare team composition**: Combines world-class software engineers from Meta AI, DeepMind, AWS, NASA, and Tesla with energy industry veterans from TotalEnergies, Nexamp, Con Edison, and GE.
- **Agentic AI for due diligence**: Automates workflows that traditionally require expensive manual effort, enabling parallel development stages.
- **Full-stack approach**: Integrates software, AI, and expert services to cover both early-stage and late-stage diligence, reducing project cancellation risk (80% of clean energy projects fail due to insufficient early due diligence).

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and data center projects to meet skyrocketing energy demand and climate goals.
- Expand platform capabilities to support a wider range of energy infrastructure, including solar, EV charging, data centers, and industrial loads.
- Scale pipeline without scaling headcount by automating diligence and de-risking decisions earlier.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Employees describe their work as "the most impactful, meaningful work of their career" – directly contributing to climate-positive infrastructure.
- **Culture**: Offsites for thinking and connection, karaoke, unconferences where team members share passions (from espresso to Capoeira), lunch-and-learns, and a dog-friendly office (with a dog calendar).
- **Work policy**: All current openings are listed as **in-office** in Brooklyn, NY. The team values in-person collaboration.
- **Perks**: Fun, collaborative environment with a strong mission; opportunity to work alongside top talent from both tech and energy sectors.

## Sources
1. [paces.com](https://www.paces.com/)
2. [paces.com/about](https://www.paces.com/about)
3. [jobs.gem.com/paces](https://jobs.gem.com/paces)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/paces](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/paces)
5. [linkedin.com/company/pacesai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacesai)

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