Senior Manager, Land Development

Fervo Energy • Salt Lake City, UT

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Fervo Energy is seeking a Senior Manager — Land Development to architect the company's land portfolio strategy and its integration into long-range planning. This role reports to the Sr. Director of Land, Environmental and Permitting, working extensively with Sr. Management and Executive components of Fervo. The role partners with all internal stakeholders to develop and execute the company's lease development strategy, ensure the lease portfolio supports the corporate long-range plan, guide land-related investment decisions, and lease portfolio development across federal, state, and fee lands and emerging markets. The ideal candidate combines deep asset management expertise with strong analytical and executive-communication skills — synthesizing complex information into clear recommendations while collaborating to build alignment across all Fervo Teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, plus 12+ years of progressive experience in land management, strategy, corporate planning, or business development, preferably in energy.
• Demonstrated experience executing asset acquisition, development, or deployment strategies that support enterprise and long-range planning.
• Proven track record presenting executive-level recommendations to C-suite executives, Boards of Directors, investors, and other stakeholders, with extensive experience evaluating acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
• Strong financial acumen — acreage valuation, economic modeling, capital allocation — and the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams in highly-matrixed organizations.
• Ability to make high-quality decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; willing to travel up to 25% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline (MBA, MS, JD, or equivalent).
• Direct experience in geothermal, power generation, upstream energy, renewables, or capital-intensive infrastructure, including geothermal-specific considerations (resource rights, unitization, Geothermal Steam Act).
• Prior experience in high-growth environments, building processes while scaling organizations.
• Demonstrated success building market intelligence or analytics capabilities, leveraging modelling and/or automated tools or processes to improve strategic decision-making.
• 10+ years of experience at a senior management level with a publicly traded energy company; demonstrated success in developing growth strategies based on market intelligence for a portfolio of projects; experience presenting progress updates and strategic plans to executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Leads land and lease strategy and valuation for the annual long-range plan, setting priorities and evaluating leasing, acquisition, and relinquishment tradeoffs to maximize enterprise value; develops integrated outlooks and presents strategic recommendations.
• Leads portfolio optimization and high-grading using economic models and scenario/sensitivity analysis, and partners with Finance and Operations to prioritize capital deployment — bonus payments, rentals, acquisition spend — based on acreage economics, risk, and commercial structure.
• Develops leasing and acquisition strategies across BLM, SITLA, and fee lands, identifies growth positions in domestic geothermal, leads new-market assessments and due diligence on acquisitions and partnerships, and supports negotiation of leases, surface agreements, and joint ventures.
• Builds the company's land market intelligence capability, monitoring competitor activity and policy developments, benchmarking land position and costs against competitors, and translating insights into strategic recommendations and executive updates.
• Prepares executive and investor presentations, leads cross-functional land initiatives across Land Administration, Legal, Development, Engineering, Drilling, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and Policy, and drives continuous improvement using GIS, analytics, and AI-enabled tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior