Executive/Founder in Residence - Advanced Energy

Roadrunner Venture Studio•Albuquerque, NM

About The Position

Roadrunner Venture Studios is seeking an Executive/Founder in Residence (EIR/FIR), Advanced Energy to help identify, shape, and launch new companies at the intersection of energy infrastructure, power generation, and rapidly growing electricity demand. This role is designed for an experienced energy executive who understands not only how power is generated, but how energy projects are financed, contracted, sold, and ultimately turned into bankable businesses. The EIR/FIR will work alongside the Roadrunner team and prospective founders to evaluate new venture opportunities, develop commercial and financing strategies, and help move the strongest concepts from thesis to execution. A particular focus will be opportunities created by hyperscalers, data centers, advanced manufacturing, and other large-load customers whose demand for reliable power is reshaping energy markets.

Requirements

Significant experience in energy project development, project finance, infrastructure investing, power markets, or commercial energy strategy.
Direct experience developing, financing, owning, operating, or transacting around power generation or energy infrastructure projects.
Deep understanding of PPAs and other power offtake structures, including the commercial terms that make projects financeable.
Experience working with utilities, grid operators, independent power producers, infrastructure investors, or large corporate energy buyers.
Strong understanding of project economics, including development costs, capex, operating costs, financing, power pricing, returns, and risk allocation.
Ability to assess both contracted and merchant power opportunities and understand how electricity is monetized across different markets.
Commercial instincts and the ability to distinguish an interesting technology from a financeable, buildable, and scalable energy business.
Comfort operating in an entrepreneurial environment where the opportunity, business model, team, and path to market may still be taking shape.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with the rapidly evolving power requirements of hyperscalers and data centers is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify and evaluate opportunities across power generation, energy infrastructure, grid services, and large-load energy markets.
Build and evaluate financing structures for capital-intensive energy projects, including project-level debt and equity, tax incentives, development capital, and other sources of infrastructure financing.
Develop commercial models for selling power through Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), utility contracts, direct-to-customer agreements, and wholesale electricity markets.
Build relationships with hyperscalers, data center operators, industrial customers, utilities, and other major power purchasers and understand how they evaluate generation, reliability, price, location, and time-to-power.
Translate technologies and development concepts into projects capable of attracting customers, investors, lenders, and strategic partners.
Develop and pressure-test revenue models based on the economics of generating and selling electricity, including contracted and merchant power, capacity, ancillary services, and other potential revenue streams.
Evaluate interconnection, transmission, congestion, curtailment, market pricing, and other factors that determine whether and how a project can economically sell power to the grid.
Determine where a venture should sit in the value chain—from technology provider to developer, owner/operator, or independent power producer—and how it should ultimately make money.
Develop relationships with utilities, developers, IPPs, infrastructure investors, lenders, hyperscalers, equipment providers, regulators, and other partners necessary to launch and scale new ventures.
Work directly with Roadrunner and founding teams on business models, financial models, customer development, capital strategy, partnerships, and early company formation.