Staff Structured Origination Manager

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.</p> <p>We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.</p></div><h5> </h5> <h5> </h5> <h5><strong>Position Summary</strong></h5> <p> </p> <p>The Staff Structured Origination Manager will lead Antora’s efforts to identify, evaluate, acquire, and co-develop energy projects for long-duration energy storage (LDES) deployment. This role is uniquely focused on co-location strategies with renewable developers, identifying solar and wind projects in MISO, SPP, PJM, and other markets, and structuring complex, multi-party agreements that allow Antora to add storage to the grid.</p> <p>A core part of this role is originating and structuring novel commercial agreements with renewable developers, enabling Antora to deliver value to its customers and generate strong risk-adjusted returns. The Senior Manager will sit at the intersection of M&A, energy markets, project development, and structured finance, building Antora’s pipeline of co-located storage projects through developer relationships, rigorous diligence, and creative deal structuring.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <h5><strong>Roles & Responsibilities</strong></h5> <p> </p> <h2><strong>Co-location Deal Origination & Developer Partnerships</strong></h2> <p> </p> <ul> <li>      Developing and managing working relationships with renewable developers in target ISO/RTO markets across the US.</li> <li>      Negotiate complex and novel agreements to govern co-development and co-location structures.</li> <li>      Structure compensation mechanisms tied closely to Antora’s revenue opportunities that incentivize developers to work with Antora</li> <li>      Negotiate the full subsidiary agreement suite in a co-location deal, including, but not limited to; Co-Location and Dispatch Coordination Agreements; and Shared Facilities Agreements;</li> <li>      Ensure the structure protects the developer’s energy delivery obligations while enabling Antora to connect to the grid and monetize its LDES.</li> <li>      Work with legal and interconnection teams to navigate co-location regulations as they evolve in markets across the US.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Project Evaluation & Acquisition</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Work with internal stakeholders to apply project scoring frameworks to prioritize opportunities based on site quality, development and interconnection status, market access, and strategic fit.</li> <li>      Recommend purchase or partnership terms and deal structures; prepare investment memos for leadership review.</li> <li>      Lead negotiations for project acquisitions including MIPAs, asset purchase agreements, and co-development term sheets.</li> <li>      Sequence deal execution appropriately across offtake, siting, and development milestones.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Financial Modeling & Deal Economics</strong></h2> <ul> <li>      Collaborate with finance to build out the project-level financial models that underpin acquisition decisions and deal structuring, including project IRRs, revenue projections, co-location deal terms, and returns to Antora under        various dispatch and market price scenarios.</li> <li>      Evaluate project financing structures (debt, tax equity, sponsor equity) and their interaction with co-location deal terms.</li> <li>      Stress-test deal economics against market price risk, interconnection delays, curtailment assumptions, and counterparty credit.</li> <li>      Collaborate with Finance on investment committee materials and project valuation methodologies.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Developer Relationships & Origination</strong></h2> <ul> <li>      Build and maintain relationships with renewable developers, IPPs, and project owners to source co-location and acquisition opportunities.</li> <li>      Proactively screen developer portfolios for projects that could accommodate LDES co-location.</li> <li>      Manage NDA processes, data room access, and ongoing communication with potential partners and sellers.</li> <li>      Coordinate with Antora’s business development team to align project acquisition strategy with the commercial pipeline and customer opportunities. </li> </ul> <h2><strong>Internal Coordination</strong></h2> <ul> <li>      Partner with Engineering and…