Associate Director/Director, Project Development
About The Position
Wunder is building a Modern Energy Company to address the climate crisis by accelerating the deployment of solar energy. They help businesses, municipalities, and schools save money by delivering clean on-site power, converting warehouses into electrified industrial platforms, and enabling commercial and industrial real estate firms to capture solar benefits. Wunder is actively developing hundreds of commercial solar projects across the country using a proprietary technology platform to develop solar at scale. The company's average solar system offsets 350,000 pounds of coal burned annually. This role is for a results-oriented professional to join a growing team, solve hard problems, and push renewable energy forward. The ideal candidate works quickly and efficiently, manages projects and teams effectively, and is not afraid of a challenge. The team is rapidly acquiring commercial customers and developing solar nationwide, requiring assistance in scaling commercial solar deployment to gigawatt scale. Initially, the focus will be on Wunder’s Project Development function: driving solar projects forward, unblocking bottlenecks, improving delivery systems, and ensuring outcomes across the national portfolio. Collaboration with execution and technology teams will leverage Wunder’s proprietary software platform to accelerate project delivery, encode learnings, and unlock execution at scale in the commercial & industrial solar sector. The role emphasizes exceeding customer expectations through clear communication, ahead-of-schedule deliverables, thoughtful project plans, and seamless execution. It involves anticipating and mitigating risks to timeline or cost, and identifying patterns and operational insights for portfolio optimization. The candidate will influence and improve how work gets done at Wunder, making it faster, better, and more predictable. This role is for someone excited about unlocking the commercial and industrial solar market, joining a hyper-growth team, and building an organization aimed at saving the world.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of managing complex projects, teams, and cross-functional initiatives
- Proven track record of meeting and exceeding critical business goals
- Striving for operational excellence
- Ability to turn problems into clear plans and drive them forward with urgency and precision
- Excellent communication skills, adapting style to stakeholder needs
- Ability to seamlessly shift from external partner management to internal executive presentations
- Meticulous and takes a “zero defect” approach to problem solving and deliverables
- Ability to understand the goal of a project, break it down into workable components, track work, risks, timelines, and people
- Keeping stakeholders well-informed throughout the process
- Ability to draw a roadmap when there’s no roadmap
- Ability to rebuild things stronger when they break
- Ability to create organization from chaos
- Growth mindset, actively seeking new ideas
- Ambition to learn and evolve
- Ability to question the status quo and drive forward with creative and effective solutions
- Belief that no problem is too hard
- Ability to articulate and roll out solutions
- Ability to find new and effective ways to streamline and create processes to increase efficiency
- Thinking in repeatable frameworks, not one-offs
- Beginner's mind, seeking to understand market norms but independent thinker
- Hungry to solve hard problems from first principles
- Ability to challenge own assumptions if experienced in solar
- Team ethos, thriving in a creative, inventive, fast-paced rapid-growth environment
- Craving cross-functional work
- Flexibility and quick response to change or pivot
- Must currently live in, or be willing to relocate to, the Boulder/Denver area
- Ability to work in-person at the Boulder HQ five days per week
Nice To Haves
- Experience in solar development (though a beginner's mind is also valued)
Responsibilities
- Driving solar projects forward
- Unblocking bottlenecks in project development
- Improving project delivery systems
- Ensuring outcomes across the national portfolio
- Collaborating deeply with execution and technology teams
- Leveraging Wunder’s proprietary software platform to accelerate project delivery
- Encoding learnings into processes
- Unlocking execution at scale in the commercial & industrial solar sector
- Exceeding customer expectations with clear communication, ahead-of-schedule deliverables, thoughtful project plans, and seamless execution
- Anticipating and mitigating risks that could impact timeline or cost
- Identifying patterns and operational insights across the portfolio to optimize work at the macro level
- Understanding and influencing how work gets done at Wunder
- Making work processes faster, better, and more predictable
Benefits
- Salary & Equity: $110,000 - $195,000 per year, plus stock options
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental & vision insurance for all team members
- 50% employer-paid medical, dental & vision insurance for dependents
- Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability & life insurance
- 401k Matching (50% match up to 4% of your base salary)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) & Dependent Care FSA
- Up to 14 weeks fully paid Parental Leave for childbearing parents
- 6 weeks fully paid Parental Leave for non-childbearing parents
- 11 paid holidays & unlimited PTO
- Annual professional development budget
- Unlimited book budget
- In-office meals
- Fully stocked kitchen
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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