Senior In-House Energy Attorney

Core Responsibilities

Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial, partnership, and energy storage agreements, including:

• Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) contracts
• Tolling agreements
• Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)
• Interconnection agreements
• BESS equipment supply agreements
• Battery-specific safety, decommissioning, and end-of-life obligations
• Other distributed energy resource contracts

Assessing potential risks and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide range of energy and commercial contracts, including BESS agreements, tolling agreements, PPAs, interconnection agreements, BESS equipment supply agreements, battery-specific safety, decommissioning, and end-of-life obligations, and other distributed energy resource contracts.

• Serve as senior legal advisor on structuring, negotiating, and closing battery storage and other energy storage transactions, working closely with commercial, engineering, and finance teams.

• Advise the sales and partnership teams on legal implications, risks, and opportunities associated with various commercial structures under consideration, and support those teams in achieving commercial objectives consistent with legal risk tolerance.

• Provide substantive guidance on regulatory and market-specific issues affecting energy storage and demand response transactions across ISO/RTO markets (e.g., PJM, ERCOT, MISO, NYISO), including storage participation models under FERC Order Nos. 841 and 2222.

• Utilize and build upon deep knowledge of legal issues relating to energy regulatory matters, IP, data use, privacy, and labor and employment law.

• Prepare, maintain, and improve template agreements, playbooks, training, and operational guidance for storage and commercial contracting.

• Mentor and provide guidance to junior members of the legal team on contract negotiation and energy industry matters.

• Work closely with teams across sales operations, product, finance, marketing, field operations, regulatory, and engineering to ensure terms align with company objectives and priorities.

• Help develop processes to ensure ongoing compliance with contractual commitments and provide practical, solutions-oriented advice to help client teams navigate issues that may arise.

• Define and implement best practices around workflow and process to further scale the legal department.

• Assist with ad-hoc legal matters as needed.

Desired Qualifications

• A Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school; strong academic credentials

• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of relevant legal experience, including significant experience in the energy industry (required)

• Direct experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) contracts and related transactions (required)

• Extensive experience drafting, preparing, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, particularly energy storage, PPAs, tolling agreements, strategic partnerships, and product agreements.

• A working knowledge of U.S. energy markets, ISO/RTO structures, and regulatory frameworks governing distributed energy resources and energy storage.

• Experience with behind-the-meter or commercial & industrial-sited storage, and with storage participating in demand response or wholesale capacity/ancillary services markets is strongly preferred.

• Strong problem-solving, innovation, and collaboration skills, as well as business acumen.

• Ability to independently manage a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and anticipating issues.

• Excellent drafting skills and attention to detail.

• Able to perform quickly in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment to successfully multitask and manage deadlines.

• Experience working in Google Drive, Salesforce, Adobe PDF, Ironclad, and DocuSign strongly preferred but not required.