Location Preferences:
Denver, CO (preferred)
Chicago, IL
Baltimore, MD
Remote in the US will be considered
ROLE OVERVIEW
Pivot Energy, an ESG-focused IPP for distributed renewable energy, is looking for an experienced and strategic thinker to lead our Commercial Operations group. This role will lead people, process, and operating fleet financial performance. Additionally, this role will build critical feedback loops across enterprise operations based on operating fleet perspectives, contributing to scaling Pivot Energy’s impact across development and construction.
This position will report to the Chief Operating Officer and play a vital role in drafting and implementing a long-term operational vision. This role owns the end-to-end commercial operating system – from asset-level revenue realization through portfolio-level forecasting, reporting, and investor reporting. The role will partner to build out digital solutions to support current and future fleet performance management and ensure effective collaboration with all operations teams.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with fleet financial management and compliance, customer and revenue management in solar and storage assets, and scaling high-performing teams. Candidates with experience building internal and external-facing processes, driving change within their team and with cross-functional stakeholders, and with data and digital solutions for scaling organizations will be most successful. This person will also work closely with Pivot’s Construction, Operations and Maintenance, Legal, Project Finance, and Accounting teams.
The role requires a leader focused on coaching and collaboration first and foremost, with a commitment to helping people successfully deliver results. Therefore, to be a
successful candidate for the Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations role should plan to learn the organization and focus on the current strengths and opportunities in our current teams. This role is expected to travel up to 15-20% of the time.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leadership & Organization Build-out
- Develop and execute a multi-year strategy for scaling Revenue Operations and Asset Management in alignment with Pivot’s fleet growth forecast and investment strategy
- Implement enterprise-facing key performance indicators and dashboards for the operating fleet that shape the organization's delivery of distributed solar and storage assets
- Serve as a key member of the Pivot Extended Leadership Team, shaping company-wide strategies and helping cultivate Pivot’s unique company culture
- Own the commercial data architecture across Asset Management, Revenue Operations, Finance, and Accounting, delivering one source of truth for fleet performance and investor reporting
- Financial Excellence and Scaling the Operations Engine
- Oversee the development of team culture, processes, and tools for financial excellence within Pivot’s operating fleet
- Integrate the work of Revenue Operations and Asset Management to deliver speed and accuracy for audit-ready and investor-grade financial insights
- Ensure key outcomes for offtake management and revenue collections in line with community solar industry best practices
- Map existing digital tools and establish a roadmap for commercial data architecture, including informing build vs. buy decisions as the fleet continues to diversify and grow
- Partner with O&M to leverage financial insights to successfully drive the performance of our nationwide and distributed fleet
- Oversee critical workflows between Asset Management and Finance, Revenue Operations and Accounting, to optimize commercial operations and shape the development of future portfolios and capital raises
- Set standards for operating battery energy storage projects with a variety of revenue models and risk profiles
- Growth-oriented Team Leadership
- Identify business opportunities to optimize the operating fleet in collaboration with Engineering, Development, and Construction teams
- Maintain strong relationships with energy industry groups and companies that can support Pivot’s growth and leadership in DG solar and storage
- Lead through your leaders and be a model for professionalism, technical expertise, and collaboration to the existing teams
- Partner Management and Financial Stewardship
- With the Pivot Finance team, build investor relations through data integrity and analytics, as well as impeccable financial management
- Maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders, including investors, off-takers, vendors, landowners, local government, and permitting agencies, as needed
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- 15+ years of experience in the renewable energy industry, in senior roles with operations, asset management, finance, or accounting
- Demonstrated experience leading asset operations in clean energy or traditional power, with a strong understanding of technical, financial, and commercial drivers of fleet performance
- Strong commercial and financial background, with demonstrated experience assessing and maintaining strong returns in a portfolio of assets
- Demonstrated commercial acumen and experience in balancing risks and minimizing losses in project performance, revenues, and client satisfaction
- Experience negotiating vendor contracts for field operations, software, or other partnership agreements
- Familiarity with platforms like Procore, Salesforce, AlsoEnergy, and other solar data and communications tools
- Self-motivated, with a high level of initiative
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate strategic decisions into clear and actionable next steps
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- Experience with business intelligence (BI) tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), database management (SQL), or Python or other automation tools.
- Curiosity surrounding large datasets, large language models, or generative AI applications within the clean energy sector
- Interest in generating strong business relationships inside and outside of Pivot Energy
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.
