<br><br><h3>Key Responsibility Areas:</h3><ul><li>Define and manage technical and resource-based site selection criteria.</li><li>Identify, evaluate, and lead negotiations for state and local incentive packages, tax credits, and infrastructure grants.</li><li>Serve as the primary liaison with state and local governments to navigate regulatory frameworks and permitting processes.</li><li>Lead local stakeholder outreach to build community relationships and secure the local stakeholder trust required for a first-of-a-kind fusion energy project.</li><li>Proactively identify and manage risks related to land use, zoning, and environmental impact assessments.</li><li>Align the siting process with technical requirements and company stakeholders to ensure site readiness and compatibility.</li><li>Establish and maintain schedule and cost baselines for siting, incentives, land acquisition, and construction phases.</li></ul><h3>Ideal Experience &amp; Skillsets:</h3><ul><li>10+ years of relevant work experience driving site selection, first of a kind construction project development, or government affairs within deep tech, energy, hardware, or aerospace.</li><li>Proven track record of successfully negotiating and securing complex state and local incentive packages or non-dilutive government funding.</li><li>Comfort interfacing with legal and regulatory frameworks; able to effectively partner with counsel to navigate zoning ordinances, term sheets, and incentive contracts.</li><li>Experience with complex and capital intensive infrastructure development cycles.</li><li>Highly structured and process-driven, with a speed and execution mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities across internal teams and external stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly in public-facing or sensitive negotiation settings.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.</li><li>Bachelor's degree or greater in a relevant technical, legal, or policy field.</li></ul><h3>Company Benefits:</h3><ul><li>Salary range $125,000-$230,000</li><li>Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)</li><li>Employee equity stock options</li><li>20 days PTO</li></ul><br>

<p>Thea Energy (formerly Princeton Stellarators) was founded in 2022 with a focus on leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster, simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. Thea Energy is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils and replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other proposed stellarator architectures. Stellarators are inherently steady-state, stable magnetic configurations that eliminate potential disruptions, making it an optimal pilot plant architecture. Thea Energy is building off foundational research and technology development that it spun out of Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where the stellarator was first imagined in 1951. Thea Energy's proprietary breakthroughs have now enabled systems to be simpler and more practical than previously possible resulting in a system design that can scale to long-term commercial system operation and maintenance.​</p>

Director - Site Development

<br /><br /><h3>Key Responsibility Areas:</h3><ul><li>Define and manage technical and resource-based site selection criteria.</li><li>Identify, evaluate, and lead negotiations for state and local incentive packages, tax credits, and infrastructure grants.</li><li>Serve as the primary liaison with state and local governments to navigate regulatory frameworks and permitting processes.</li><li>Lead local stakeholder outreach to build community relationships and secure the local stakeholder trust required for a first-of-a-kind fusion energy project.</li><li>Proactively identify and manage risks related to land use, zoning, and environmental impact assessments.</li><li>Align the siting process with technical requirements and company stakeholders to ensure site readiness and compatibility.</li><li>Establish and maintain schedule and cost baselines for siting, incentives, land acquisition, and construction phases.</li></ul><h3>Ideal Experience &amp; Skillsets:</h3><ul><li>10+ years of relevant work experience driving site selection, first of a kind construction project development, or government affairs within deep tech, energy, hardware, or aerospace.</li><li>Proven track record of successfully negotiating and securing complex state and local incentive packages or non-dilutive government funding.</li><li>Comfort interfacing with legal and regulatory frameworks; able to effectively partner with counsel to navigate zoning ordinances, term sheets, and incentive contracts.</li><li>Experience with complex and capital intensive infrastructure development cycles.</li><li>Highly structured and process-driven, with a speed and execution mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities across internal teams and external stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly in public-facing or sensitive negotiation settings.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.</li><li>Bachelor's degree or greater in a relevant technical, legal, or policy field.</li></ul><h3>Company Benefits:</h3><ul><li>Salary range $125,000-$230,000</li><li>Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)</li><li>Employee equity stock options</li><li>20 days PTO</li></ul><br />

Director - Site Development

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