Senior Counsel

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Senior Counsel, in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Legal Officer and designated Senior Counsel, will be responsible for creating, implementing, driving, and maintaining the legal priorities and strategy for the company to support the title, finance, strategic partnership, development, and construction departments across the company as directed by the Managing Senior Counsel. They will review, draft, lead negotiations, and manage complex real estate, development, and construction transactions, and applicable agreements and be willing to perform general corporate legal tasks. The ideal candidate should have experience managing and growing a team be comfortable with ambiguity and have a willingness to build, experiment, and iterate when the path forward is undefined.

Most importantly, the ideal candidate is kind and thoughtful in his/her interactions with others. He/she is honest and values integrity, kind, and willing to learn and improve every day.

We are open to training the right person. The individual must possess a professional manner, be detail and customer service-oriented, have the ability to work with a large volume of files on a daily basis, and have the ability to interface with landowners, developers, surveyors, title companies, county clerks, and outside counsels. This is an exciting opportunity to grow with a fast-paced, dynamic company that has a great culture and is purpose-driven.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Title
• Build and manage a small team of title analysts 
• Responsible for title team implementation of processes and procedures 
• Set title department objectives, timelines, and deliverable requirements 
• Guide the development and title teams at various stages of the development cycle, including reviewing title reports and curing title defects, issuing title policy with endorsements, project closings, negotiating financier transaction terms, and negotiating ancillary development contracts
• Guide financiers and title companies through Pivot’s framework for title work
• Maintain the integrity of title department files, including templates, reference documents, trackers, and other relevant department materials
• Provide legal support for all title matters




• Project Development (Real Estate, Permitting and Environmental Review)
• Support project acquisition and finance teams’ due diligence review of all real estate matters including review of leases, easements, interconnection, and other ancillary documents
• Provide legal guidance on regulatory compliance and permitting for project development initiatives
• Support the development teams in initial permitting/zoning matters and resolution of permitting matters for financing projects.
• Provide legal support for environmental matters




• Construction
• Drafting and negotiating transaction documents for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services
• Review bonding, lien waivers, and insurance requirements
• Drafting and negotiating master service agreements, engineering agreements, subcontractor and supply agreements, and other commercial contracting and project finance documents
• Lead third-party diligence activities, including coordinating responses to questions and information requests




• Legal Affairs
• Perform other responsibilities assigned by the managing Senior Counsel
• Stay up to date with laws and regulations in order to provide competent legal support to the various teams

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
• Admitted to practice law in at least one state
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience handling land development, title, permitting, environmental, structured and project finance transactions, preferably in the renewable energy, electric utility, real estate or oil and gas industries
• Relevant experience handling construction transactions or the willingness to learn
• Excellent analytical and research skills; highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products
• Strong organizational skills, ability to effectively prioritize tasks, highly detail-oriented
• Ability to multi-task and balance multiple projects and priorities simultaneously 
• Excels in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to work at the Denver office three times a week
• Great team player

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

• Experience with renewable energy transactions
• Experience working with lenders and lender’s counsel for financing projects
• Experience with commercial real estate, land, permitting, title work, and environmental review
• Experience with construction transactions
• Experience with Smartsheet is a plus 

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.