Senior Principal, Business Management – Debt

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About the role

  • Senior Principal leading renewable-energy debt mandates at Crux, a capital platform for the clean economy. Driving structuring, negotiation, credit approval, and closing.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a book of debt mandates from IOI through close as primary negotiator and senior execution lead
  • Drive lender diligence, structuring, negotiation, documentation, and closing
  • Own transaction velocity and close rates across the deal book
  • Contribute to Debt team revenue and P&L targets
  • Author credit memos and pricing recommendations
  • Present transactions to Credit Committee
  • Lead deal teams, staff transactions, review underwriting, diligence, and financial models
  • Mentor junior team members on credit and execution
  • Execute debt transactions with lenders and institutional capital providers
  • Partner with Industry Coverage to qualify opportunities and provide market and financeability feedback
  • Partner with Investments on tax-equity and preferred-equity attach transactions
  • Lead workstreams for new lender programs, financing structures, and documentation standards
  • Build and standardize repeatable execution processes
  • Drive adoption of AI-enabled modeling and automation
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on transaction tooling
  • Represent Crux in webinars, whitepapers, conferences, and industry dialogues

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field
  • 10–12+ years of total experience
  • 7+ years in renewable energy project finance, infrastructure debt, or structured lending
  • Track record of leading construction, term, back-leverage, or debt capital markets transactions as the primary negotiator
  • Deep expertise in project finance debt structures for solar, wind, and storage
  • Hands-on negotiation of credit agreements and intercreditor arrangements
  • Understanding of the interplay between tax equity and debt
  • Experience preparing and presenting transactions to credit or investment committee
  • Experience from both lender and sponsor/advisory side ideally
  • Experience leading and mentoring deal teams
  • Experience reviewing underwriting and modeling work
  • Exceptional negotiation and relationship skills with developers, lenders, and investors
  • Strong judgment and ability to operate autonomously
  • Strong interest in technology and AI for debt execution
  • FINRA SIE, Series 79 and 63 required or willingness to obtain under Crux's broker-dealer sponsorship

Benefits

  • Remote-first operating model: 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% of employee healthcare premiums covered; 70% of dependent premiums subsidized
  • Dental and vision premiums covered 100% for employees and 50% for dependents
  • 10 company holidays per year
  • 20 days paid time off per year
  • 401k account (no matching program)
  • 16 weeks parental leave for birthing parents
  • 12 weeks parental leave for non-birthing parents
  • Stock options
  • High ownership culture and significant responsibility
  • Exposure to AI and technology-focused financial services
  • Equal employment opportunities

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$300,000 - $500,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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