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title: 'Vice President, Capital Markets at Pivot Energy'
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# Vice President, Capital Markets at Pivot Energy

- **Company:** Pivot Energy
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Compensation:** $220k–$275k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/pivotenergy/f81926f8-15aa-4a81-9f98-d36d9ae85fe8

## Job description

## ROLE OVERVIEW

The Vice President of Capital Markets is responsible for leading the capital formation strategy, origination, and execution of all financings, including tax equity, preferred equity, and debt facilities. This role will oversee the Capital Markets team, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution while building scalable processes that support the enterprise capital strategy. This role will focus on day-to-day leadership and origination of capital sources: mentoring team members, managing negotiations and closings, refining workflows to ensure capital origination functions scale efficiently and responsibly, and relationship building and maintenance. This role would be expected to travel regularly to build and maintain those relationships. The VP will partner with the VP of Project Finance, VP of Corporate Finance, and the CFO on broader financing strategy.

## PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead day-to-day origination of all project finance facilities, including tax equity, preferred equity, development loans, and construction facilities, to support the long-term financing strategy.
- Negotiate legal and operative transaction documents in partnership with counsel and advisors, ensuring alignment with strategic capital objectives and terms that maximize commercial impact, optimize execution efficiency, and streamline reporting requirements.
- Manage and mentor Capital Markets team members, developing technical and leadership skills.
- Drive continuous improvement of Capital Markets processes, documentation standards, and origination practices.
- Collaborate with Finance leadership and executive team on capital formation strategy.
- Execute upon Capital Markets strategy, including the origination of facilities, structures, and relationships that are needed today and looking forward to support the business.
- Establish feedback loops with Project Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and commercial operations functions to integrate historical and forecasted performance data into liquidity planning, capital access, and investor communications.
- Partner with Corporate Finance to integrate Capital Markets insights into enterprise forecasting, liquidity planning, and covenant management.
- Build scalable processes with Project Delivery, O&M, Asset Management, and Revenue Operations to connect operations and capital strategy.

## REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

- Minimum of 8+ years in project finance, capital markets, corporate finance, or a similar position.
- Proven track record of structuring and leading complex financings at scale (tax equity, preferred equity, debt for renewable projects and portfolios).
- Demonstrated success in senior leadership: developing leaders, shaping organizational design, driving cross-functional alignment.
- Strong external presence with capital providers, banks, and investors.
- Systems-level thinker with the ability to balance execution oversight and strategic design.
- Excellent judgment, discretion, and executive communication skills.

## PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

- Familiarity with ERP systems and financial reporting platforms (e.g., Intacct, Procore) and their integration across departments.
- Proven track record of executive-level relationship management with banks, investors, and rating agencies.
- Demonstrated ability to design and scale organizations – creating new management layers, building succession plans, and fostering leadership at multiple levels.
- Experience representing Finance in cross-functional executive committees or boards, influencing strategy beyond financing.
- Familiarity with generative AI tools and methods and an ability to experiment with and adopt impactful automation through thoughtful design of human and AI workflows.

Recruitment Agency Notice: We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.

## ABOUT PIVOT

Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and families.

We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.

As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.

At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:

- Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
- Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
- Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
- Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
- Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
- Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT

At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot. Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.

## EEO STATEMENT

Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.

## About Pivot Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pivot Energy is a Certified B Corporation and independent power producer (IPP) that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages commercial and community-scale solar and energy storage projects across the United States.
- **Entity Type**: Private (private equity-backed; owned by Energy Capital Partners / ECP)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, United States (with additional presence in Chicago, Illinois)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Renewable energy — solar photovoltaic (PV) development, energy storage, and distributed generation
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and Public Sector — including businesses, municipal organizations, schools, universities, non-profits, solar developers, owner-operators, utilities, and landowners
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To fight climate change by making renewable energy accessible and affordable to communities, businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, families, and others across the U.S. The company views renewable energy as a tool to "power progress" for both the grid and local communities.

## Products & Services
- **Onsite Solar Solutions**: Rooftop and ground-mounted solar arrays for businesses and municipalities to reduce utility expenses and Scope 2 emissions (Service + Asset ownership).
- **Offsite Solutions**: Offsite solar installations that allow customers to adopt decarbonization without on-site infrastructure, covering Scope 2 emissions with positive economic impact (Service/PPA model).
- **Energy Storage**: Stand-alone or solar-paired battery storage systems to manage electricity costs and increase resiliency (Service + Asset ownership).
- **Community Scale Solar**: Subscription-based community solar projects that provide local renewable energy cost savings without rooftop installation, supporting local economies and farmers (Service).
- **Agrivoltaics**: Solar projects integrated with farmland stewardship practices that restore soil quality and enhance rural ecosystems — Pivot is one of the nation's top agrivoltaics developers (Service/Development).
- **Land Stewardship & Community Impact Programs**: Policy advocacy, workforce pathway programs, energy bill assistance, and agricultural initiatives funded through the company's charitable giving (Corporate program).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.168B (estimated valuation per CB Insights; not publicly confirmed by the company)
- **Key Metric**: Over $2 billion in project financing transactions closed since 2022, supporting more than 1 GWdc of distributed generation projects; $450 million debt warehouse facility and structured equity investment from HASI closed recently
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Energy Capital Partners (ECP — owner since 2021), First Citizens Bank, ATLAS SP Partners, HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Nearly 1,900 projects completed or under development, totaling over 4.3 GW of renewable energy built or in development
  - Scaled from managing less than 10 MW to delivering hundreds of megawatts per year under CEO Tom Hunt
  - Strong revenue, income, and headcount growth multiples during CEO tenure
  - Expanding geographic footprint with active hiring in Denver and Chicago
  - $2.1 million+ invested in local community organizations to date

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack IPP model**: Develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages projects — allowing it to capture value across the entire project lifecycle and offer flexible financing structures.
- **Certified B Corporation status**: Combines purpose and performance with formal ESG governance, which resonates with mission-driven customers and financiers.
- **Agrivoltaics leadership**: One of the top agrivoltaics developers in the U.S., with differentiated land stewardship practices that preserve farmland and build rural community trust.
- **Strong capital markets execution**: Over $2 billion in closed financing transactions since 2022, including a scalable $450M warehouse facility and structured equity from HASI, creating a durable funding foundation.
- **Community relationships**: $2.1M+ in local charitable investments and stakeholder-driven project development create a social license to operate that is difficult for competitors to replicate.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling distributed generation (DG) as a core part of the fight against climate change, with a goal of making DG a mainstream grid resource.
- Expanding energy storage offerings — both stand-alone and paired with solar — to address rising electricity demand and grid reliability.
- Growing multi-product solutions (onsite, offsite, community solar, storage) to serve companies of any size with integrated ESG outcomes.
- Deepening affordable energy access and workforce pathway programs, particularly in rural and underserved communities.
- Building a scalable financing foundation to support continued growth of 300+ MWdc of projects per cycle.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, solutions-based team culture with a strong people-centric foundation; the company describes itself as "only as good as its people and culture."
- **Work model**: Hybrid work available for many roles (e.g., Director, Operational Finance in Denver is hybrid); offices in Denver, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision coverage through United Healthcare — Pivot covers up to 100% of employee premiums and a majority of partner/family premiums; transportation reimbursements included.
- **Professional development**: Personalized mentorship program, monthly manager training, continuous feedback and recognition, and company-wide training on inclusion and equity practices.
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)**: Thrive Collective (People of Color), Pride (LGBTQ+ employees), Women of Pivot, and Allies — all focused on community, professional development, and advocacy.
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to decarbonization, community impact, and land stewardship; the company's ESG framework is embedded in internal operations, not just external projects.
- **Growth trajectory**: Strong revenue and headcount growth with increasing project pipeline (4.3+ GW), offering meaningful career progression in a scaling organization.

## Sources
1. [pivotenergy.net - Homepage](https://www.pivotenergy.net/)
2. [pivotenergy.net - About Us](https://www.pivotenergy.net/about-us)
3. [pivotenergy.net - Careers](https://www.pivotenergy.net/careers)
4. [jobs.lever.co - Pivot Energy Open Roles](https://jobs.lever.co/pivotenergy)
5. [cbinsights.com - Pivot Energy Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pivot-energy)

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