Description
As we move from 100MW to gigawatt scale, King Energy is at an inflection point – scaling from California rooftop PV into nationwide community solar, adding BESS, expanding into a large number of utility markets, and building the operational infrastructure to match. This role leads that build-out.
As VP, Solar Construction & Asset Management, you lead an experienced team across Project Management, Quality Assurance, and Asset Management – scaling our early success into a machine built for growth and performance. You’ll bring expertise including software, infrastructure, processes, and KPIs to build a world-class execution team operating at a national scale. Your primary responsibility begins at NTP: take projects through construction and commissioning at speed and quality, then own portfolio performance indefinitely. You report directly to the COO.
We deeply value hands-on experience. You have done everything. You have taken projects live across several utilities and markets, you’ve built rooftop PV, community solar and BESS systems. You’ve walked roofs, bulk purchased panels, reviewed design sets, filed more permits than you can remember, managed shutdowns, argued with inspectors, run install teams, directed subcontractors, driven quality assurance, managed live portfolios, optimized system performance, scaled teams and delivered revenue. And while you yourself have done all these things in the past, at this stage of your career you manage other people doing these things. You are now focused on building the organization, systems, and leadership layer that will help King Energy grow an order of magnitude.
What You’ll Lead
- Drive NTP-to-PTO timeline compression – delivering speed while ensuring quality
- Lead construction execution: deployment oversight, change order discipline, schedule accountability
- Navigate and deliver utility and AHJ processes and approvals across markets to get projects live fast
- Enhance and enforce standards; ensure commissioned performance matches models
- Close the feedback loop from field to Development, Partner, Procurement, Sales and Finance
- Manage portfolio performance: production, yield, availability, revenue at risk
- Drive model optimization – timeline compression, project and O&M cost reduction, washing, build quality & efficiency, O&M responsiveness
- Build the systems, playbooks, and team that enable scale with portfolio growth
- Expand further into PV+BESS and across East Coast community solar markets
- Engage directly with enterprise customers, utility and partner executives as an Ops leader
Company Overview
King Energy is a well-funded, VC-backed renewable energy company that builds, owns, and operates solar infrastructure on multi-tenant properties.
We are truly a remote-first company. We encourage occasional travel a few days a year to our headquarters in Durango, Colorado and San Luis Obispo, California; and we have two annual offsites. But that’s it in terms of mandatory travel.
We have all the good benefits, stock options, PTO, etc. and we welcome everyone equally.
King Energy was founded by ex-Tesla, SolarCity, Roofstock, and Vista Equity executives with multiple successful exits. We believe in experience and building talent from the ground up.
Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Stock options
- Participation in company’s health benefits program
- Participation in company’s 401k program
Requirements
Who You Are
- 12+ years in C&I solar – rooftop, community solar. BESS is a plus.
- Deep field experience: you’ve built systems, managed EPCs and Subs, overseen inspections, permits, interconnection
- Demonstrated success building and scaling operations organizations – including teams, technology, and process from the ground up
- Fluency navigating utilities, AHJs, and interconnection queues to accelerate new markets – especially NJ, MD, MA
- Executive accountability for large-scale deployment and live portfolio performance — you’ve owned the P&L impact of construction timelines and O&M outcomes
- Executive presence: comfortable at the table with enterprise customers, utility and partner leadership
- Organizational builder – you create systems that outlast you and don’t wait to be told what’s missing
- Strong network of senior utility, AHJ, and EPC contacts
