VP Finance

Accountabilities:

• Lead equity fundraising and develop the capital strategy required to support the organization's growth and long-term infrastructure deployment.
• Design and execute asset financing structures for fleets and energy infrastructure, including project finance, tax equity, lease facilities, and infrastructure partnerships, with a long-term path from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.
• Lead deal design across pricing and commercial structures, including leasing, energy sales, and hybrid models that balance customer value with capital attractiveness.
• Build and maintain an integrated financial model connecting engineering requirements, deployment plans, unit economics, operating performance, and capital structures.
• Establish audit, financial controls, governance, and investor relations capabilities aligned with public-company standards and long-term readiness.
• Identify and maximize eligible tax credits, grants, and public financing programs that can support infrastructure deployment and improve project economics.
• Build and lead a lean, AI-native finance organization across accounting, FP&A, treasury, and tax, while overseeing day-to-day financial operations and payments.
• Lead the financial aspects of legal and contracting activities, working closely with the General Counsel and future in-house legal resources on commercial and financing agreements.
• Serve as a senior financial partner to boards, investors, banks, engineers, and other stakeholders, translating complex capital structures and financial decisions into clear business implications.

Requirements

• Significant executive-level experience leading finance, capital strategy, fundraising, and financial operations in high-growth or capital-intensive organizations.
• Demonstrated experience raising substantial amounts of equity and debt across different market environments.
• Strong experience financing long-lived, capital-intensive assets, ideally within energy, utilities, telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure, real estate, or similarly asset-heavy industries.
• Experience developing or financing novel asset or infrastructure models where established financing precedents may not exist.
• Strong understanding of project finance, tax equity, leasing structures, infrastructure partnerships, equity financing, and debt markets.
• Ability to develop sophisticated financial models that connect capital requirements, deployment, engineering, unit economics, pricing, and long-term returns.
• Demonstrated credibility with boards, banks, investors, and other sophisticated financial stakeholders, with the ability to communicate complex capital structures clearly to both financial and technical audiences.
• Hands-on, low-ego, entrepreneurial approach with a preference for building new capabilities rather than simply maintaining established processes.
• Strong strategic judgment, commercial thinking, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with significant ambiguity and growth.
• Experience in rail, transportation, or energy is a plus.

Benefits

• Fully remote position open to candidates anywhere in the United States.
• Full-time executive leadership opportunity with significant ownership over the organization's financial strategy.
• Opportunity to shape financing structures for battery-powered rail, charging infrastructure, and microgrid assets.
• Direct ownership of equity funding, asset finance, commercial deal structures, financial modeling, incentives, governance, and investor readiness.
• Opportunity to build a finance organization spanning accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, legal, and financial operations.
• Exposure to complex infrastructure financing and innovative energy-as-a-service business models.
• High level of interaction with investors, banks, boards, engineers, legal leadership, and commercial stakeholders.
• Opportunity to establish financing strategies intended to scale from hundreds of millions toward billions in infrastructure deployment.
• Hands-on, entrepreneurial environment with substantial autonomy and strategic influence.
• No specific salary or additional standard benefits were provided in the source job description.