Overview As Director Transactional Counsel (Energy Solutions), you serve as a primary legal partner to Prologis Energy Solutions, guiding solar origination, development, and commercial transactions. You structure and negotiate PPAs, EPCs, and site-control agreements, coordinating with cross-functional teams to align legal risk with project economics. You'll support opportunities from origination to construction, ensuring compliant, scalable contracts and playbooks. This role combines legal expertise with strategic business impact in a fast-growing renewable energy portfolio.
Compensation / Benefits- Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match (50% up to 12%)
- Paid time off 22 days/year plus holidays
- Volunteer time
- Wellness and financial benefits
- Leadership development and quality management focus
Responsibilities- Serve as the primary legal partner to the Solar origination team, advising on transaction structure and risk allocation
- Draft, review, and negotiate power purchase agreements, equipment leases, and related customer-facing agreements for commercial and industrial solar projects
- Advise on evaluation and structuring of new solar opportunities, identifying issues affecting economics, schedule, financing, construction, or operations
- Lead legal support for site control across utility-scale Solar and BESS projects, including leases, licenses, easements, and related land-use matters
- Coordinate with internal teams to align site-control and entitlement strategies with the broader project structure
- Review and negotiate EPC agreements and provide contract interpretation during construction (delays, change orders, defaults)
- Develop and maintain scalable forms, clause libraries, playbooks, and approval frameworks for recurring transactions
Key requirements- Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school
- Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- At least seven years of relevant legal experience with renewable energy project development or commercial energy transactions
- Experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating solar PPAs or comparable distributed-energy customer agreements
- Experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating EPC contracts
- Experience with renewable energy site control and real estate agreements (leases, licenses, easements)
- Working knowledge of title, survey, zoning, land use, permitting, and interconnection-related site rights
- Sound judgment
- Creative thinking
- Accountability
- Solar power purchase agreements (PPAs)
- EPC contracts
- Site control and real estate agreements (leases, licenses, easements)
