Principal, Strategic Institutional Capital

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About the role

  • Principal expanding institutional capital relationships for Crux, a clean-energy finance platform. Developing debt, equity, tax-equity, and structured investment partnerships.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain relationships with institutional investors, including insurers, private credit funds, sovereign wealth funds, pensions, specialty credit funds, and infrastructure and energy investors
  • Help execute Crux’s institutional coverage strategy and advance strategic capital initiatives
  • Translate institutional mandates, investment priorities, and capital needs into partnership opportunities
  • Contribute to programmatic capital solutions across debt, preferred equity, tax equity, insurance capital, corporate facilities, and other strategic initiatives
  • Refine investor buy-boxes and market strategies
  • Expand institutional relationships into recurring, multi-product capital programs
  • Serve as primary commercial relationship contact for assigned institutional engagements
  • Ensure 80%+ of prequalified developer transactions have an investable universe
  • Advise investors on market dynamics and opportunities
  • Partner with Structuring, Legal, and Business Management to deliver integrated capital solutions
  • Maintain relationship continuity from origination through execution and repeat deployment
  • Support multi-product opportunity origination and transaction execution
  • Structure and present investment opportunities aligned with investor profiles
  • Gather market feedback to inform product development and capital strategy
  • Represent Crux through conferences, webinars, whitepapers, and direct investor engagement
  • Build the strategic capital partner network
  • Support growth of the Strategic Institutional Capital group

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, Business, or a related field; MBA or other advanced degree a plus
  • 10+ years of experience in principal investing, investment banking, capital formation, private credit, infrastructure finance, asset management, structured finance, or related capital markets disciplines
  • Strong relationships with equity and debt investors
  • Experience supporting or advancing institutional relationships and commercial opportunities from initial engagement through execution
  • Deep understanding of renewable energy transaction structures and market risks
  • Knowledge of infrastructure and energy transition investments within broader asset allocation strategies
  • Exposure to structuring or originating debt, preferred equity, tax equity, equity, structured products, corporate JVs, or other institutional capital solutions
  • Expertise aligning deal structures with market standards and investor appetite
  • Ability to articulate investment opportunities and risks to diverse investors
  • Ability to craft and execute tailored strategies and contribute to building and scaling institutional capital programs, strategic partnerships, or commercial initiatives
  • Comfort working across cross-functional teams to originate, negotiate, and execute complex transactions involving multiple stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of institutional investment processes, capital markets, and structured financing solutions
  • Intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking
  • Interest in leveraging technology, AI, and data to modernize institutional capital formation
  • FINRA SIE, Series 79 and 63 required or willingness to obtain under Crux’s broker-dealer sponsorship

Benefits

  • Remote-first operating model with work from anywhere in the US and Canada
  • Optional offices in DC, NYC, and SF
  • Optional co-working opportunities
  • Regular team offsites twice a year
  • 100% employee healthcare premium coverage through Aetna and Kaiser plans
  • 70% dependent healthcare premium subsidy
  • 100% employee dental and vision premium coverage
  • 50% dependent dental and vision premium coverage
  • 10 company holidays per year
  • 20 days paid time off per year
  • 401k account (no matching program currently)
  • 16 weeks parental leave for birthing parents
  • 12 weeks parental leave for non-birthing parents
  • Stock options
  • High-growth, high-ownership culture
  • Opportunities to apply AI and technology to work and client experience

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$300,000 - $500,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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