Infrastructure Counsel

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About the role:

As Infrastructure Counsel, you will provide legal advice on the development, construction, operation, and commercial aspects of the Company’s power generation, data center, and related infrastructure projects. You will draft, review, and negotiate project agreements and work directly with development, engineering, infrastructure, security, privacy, procurement, finance, real estate, regulatory, business, and operations teams. You will help identify and resolve legal, regulatory, and contractual issues that could affect project execution and development of the Company’s infrastructure portfolio.

Office Location: We are hiring for this position in NY, Austin TX, and Menlo Park, CA. Compensation may vary depending on geographic location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements supporting the development, construction, operation, and commercial execution of power generation, data center, and other infrastructure projects, including agreements related to project development, construction, engineering, procurement, capital equipment, vendor, services, financing, and so forth.
• Draft, review, and negotiate power- and utility-related agreements supporting infrastructure development, including power purchase, utility service, interconnection, generation, energy storage, fuel supply, transportation, water supply, and related arrangements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate infrastructure-related commercial agreements that support AI workloads, including cloud services agreements, colocation and data center leases, hardware procurement, networking and connectivity agreements, and maintenance/support contracts, including SLAs and performance commitments.
• Identify and manage legal, commercial, regulatory, and operational risks throughout the lifecycle of infrastructure projects, and advise on diligence, risk reviews, issue escalation, project structures, contractual obligations and contract administration, development milestones, financing conditions, and changes in project scope.
• Coordinate legal support for site-related matters, including land acquisitions, leases, easements, access rights, land use, zoning, permitting, and other development requirements, in collaboration with internal specialists and outside counsel.
• Advise development, engineering, procurement, construction, project management, operations, finance, regulatory, real estate, infrastructure, product, and go-to-market teams on infrastructure-related legal issues and AI infrastructure strategy, and support timely decision-making across multiple projects.
• Create and maintain contract forms, templates, playbooks, and processes for recurring development, construction, procurement, cloud, colocation, and compute arrangements and project contracting needs, and support responses to customer and vendor legal and security questions and RFPs.
• Monitor and advise on relevant California, U.S., and international laws and regulations affecting AI and related infrastructure projects, including privacy, data security, cybersecurity, export controls, and critical infrastructure rules, and embed appropriate terms and compliance obligations into contracts and internal processes.
• Support dispute resolution, incident response, and risk management, including contract interpretation, change orders, delays, payments, project-related disputes, infrastructure outages, security incidents, and data incidents, coordinating with internal stakeholders and outside counsel as appropriate.
• Assist with strategic infrastructure initiatives, M&A and other strategic transactions involving infrastructure assets, long-term capacity planning, large-scale compute and/or data center investments, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, and support board-level and executive reporting on infrastructure-related legal and regulatory issues and risks.

Requirements:

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an American Bar Association accredited law school.
• Active member of the New York, Texas or California State Bar and in good standing.
• At least 7+ years of relevant legal experience, including demonstrated experience advising on infrastructure, energy, data center, construction, real estate development, or other complex project matters in a corporate legal department, law firm, or comparable environment.
• Proven experience drafting and negotiating complex project, development, construction, procurement, services, or other infrastructure related agreements.
• Experience advising cross-functional project teams and managing legal matters involving multiple stakeholders, interdependent workstreams, and competing priorities.
• Sound judgment and the ability to give clear, commercially-focused legal advice in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain legal issues clearly to non-lawyers.
• Ability to independently manage multiple infrastructure-related matters while identifying issues requiring escalation or specialized legal support.
• Experience working effectively with internal stakeholders, external counterparties, consultants, and outside counsel.

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