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About Verrus

Data centers should be valuable assets to their customers, the grid, and the local community such that we are able to give customers what they want, where they want it, while cities and utilities are actively seeking us to build in their region. 

Verrus will build and operate next generation data centers that flexibly leverage its onsite infrastructure through the development of proprietary technology. Doing so will allow Verrus to provide grid services that facilitate the effective procurement of power and carbon free energy, and balance traditional and variable uptime workloads (e.g., AI/ML). 

Verrus is led by industry veterans with experience at the largest data center development companies, delivering over 11 GW of data center capacity across four continents in their careers (representing over $10bn of investment).

About Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) 

Backed by Alphabet, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, and Stepstone Group, SIP is a consolidated holding company that builds innovative technology-enabled infrastructure companies and projects that deliver positive social and environmental impact at scale. We believe that technology-enabled infrastructure will help to solve some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Following years of research and in collaboration with its current management, SIP formed Verrus to design, build, and operate the world’s most innovative data centers, leveraging unique technology to develop a scaled project portfolio that delivers significant financial, environmental, and innovation outcomes.

Role

Verrus is seeking an Energy Program Manager to support the delivery of our first wave of next-generation, grid-integrated data centers already in motion across multiple U.S. states. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring timely delivery of power to active development sites by working directly with utilities, transmission owners, and internal technical teams to advance interconnections from study to energization.

Over time, the role will evolve to shape how Verrus engages with utilities from “day one” of site development by helping establish a proactive, partnership-driven model for future projects that integrates energy planning, capacity alignment, and commercial strategy from the start.

You are an experienced professional who combines utility fluency, project execution skills, strategic foresight, and is someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment bridging energy, infrastructure, and technology. 

Responsibilities

• Power Delivery Execution: Lead the end-to-end process of securing and delivering interconnections for active data center projects. Manage engagement with utilities and transmission operators to ensure milestones are met from feasibility through energization.
• Utility & Grid Partnership Management: Serve as Verrus’s day-to-day liaison with host utilities, building and maintaining trusted relationships that accelerate collaboration and problem-solving. Coordinate internal engineering, construction, and commercial teams to align on technical and procedural requirements.
• Strategic Utility Engagement for Future Sites: Develop structured, early-stage engagement models with utilities for new projects, ensuring power availability, tariff alignment, and planning considerations are integrated from initial site selection through construction.
• Commercial Structuring & Agreements: Support the negotiation of energy service agreements, interconnection terms, and other commercial arrangements that reflect Verrus’ unique grid-aware capabilities. Partner with legal and finance to align outcomes with corporate and regulatory frameworks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Site Selection, Design & Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Policy teams to ensure consistent execution and knowledge transfer across projects and regions.
• Program Management & Continuous Improvement: Develop tools, templates, and tracking systems for interconnection status, risks, and dependencies. Codify lessons learned into scalable playbooks for replication across Verrus’s national portfolio.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Energy, Business, or related field. 
• 8–12 years of experience in utility engagement, transmission/interconnection management, or large-load infrastructure development.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-party grid or power delivery projects.
• Strong understanding of transmission and distribution interconnection processes, system impact studies, and utility operations.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills across technical, commercial, and regulatory audiences.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with a bias for execution and problem-solving.
• Willingness to travel regularly to utility partners and project sites.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Energy, Business, or related field

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position is $140,000-$180,000. Compensation is determined by multiple factors, including market location, and may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  Salary is only one part of Verrus’ comprehensive compensation package, which also includes a discretionary bonus, equity, general health benefits and paid time off.

How to Apply

If you are interested in consideration for this role, please apply through careers@verrusdata.com by submitting your resume with the job title in the subject line of your application email. Due to the amount of interest in Verrus’ work, we may not have the chance to follow up with you directly following your submission.

We are an equal opportunity employer. For us, this is more than legal boilerplate; it is reflective of a deeply held belief that our success depends on our willingness to recruit, hire, empower, compensate, reward, and promote the best and brightest individuals, of all backgrounds and characteristics.