Senior Principal, Debt Capital Markets

Crux

1d • $300,000 - $500,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Principal, Debt is a senior deal leader on Crux’s Debt Business Management team within Capital Solutions, reporting to the Head of Debt. The role leads a portfolio of debt mandates from indication of interest (IOI) through close across debt origination, debt advisory, and debt attached to tax equity and preferred equity structures. Products include construction, term, and back-leverage facilities; tax equity and credit bridge loans; equipment financing; and green bonds and securitization.

The Senior Principal serves as primary negotiator and senior execution lead, taking responsibility for transaction diligence, structuring, negotiation, documentation, and closing to institutional standards. The role owns transaction velocity and close rates, contributes to revenue and P&L targets, prepares credit memoranda and pricing recommendations, and presents transactions to Credit Committee. It also leads and mentors junior deal-team members and works closely with lenders, institutional capital providers, Industry Coverage, Investments, Structuring, Product, and Engineering.

The position contributes to the development of debt products and repeatable execution processes, including adoption of AI-enabled modeling and automation and prioritization of transaction tools. It also represents Crux in industry discussions and events. Crux describes its operating model as remote-first, with work from anywhere in the US and Canada or from optional offices in DC, NYC, and SF. The company emphasizes a high-growth, high-ownership culture and a clean-energy mission.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10–12+ years of total experience, including 7+ years in renewable energy project finance, infrastructure debt, or structured lending.
• Track record of leading construction, term, back-leverage, or debt capital markets transactions as the primary negotiator.
• Deep expertise in project finance debt structures for solar, wind, and storage.
• Hands-on experience negotiating credit agreements, intercreditor arrangements, and the interplay between tax equity and debt.
• Experience preparing and presenting transactions to a credit or investment committee.
• Experience leading and mentoring deal teams, including reviewing junior team members’ underwriting and modeling work.
• Exceptional negotiation and relationship skills with developers, lenders, and investors, and credibility leading senior-level conversations.
• Strong judgment and comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-scaling environment.
• Strong interest in leveraging technology and AI to improve debt execution.
• FINRA SIE, Series 79, and Series 63 licenses, or willingness to obtain them under Crux’s broker-dealer sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, JD, or another advanced degree.
• Perspective from both the lender and sponsor/advisory side in preparing and presenting transactions to credit or investment committees.

Responsibilities

• Lead a book of debt mandates from IOI through close as primary negotiator and senior execution lead, driving lender diligence, structuring, negotiation, documentation, and closing to institutional standards.
• Own transaction velocity and close rates across the deal book and contribute to Debt team revenue and P&L targets.
• Author credit memos and pricing recommendations and present transactions to Credit Committee, analyzing credit quality, structural terms, risks, and mitigants.
• Lead deal teams, including staffing transactions, reviewing underwriting, diligence, and financial models, and mentoring junior team members on credit and execution.
• Run debt execution with lenders and institutional capital providers inside shared accounts, in partnership with Strategic Bank Capital and Strategic Institutional Capital.
• Partner with Industry Coverage to qualify opportunities early, take execution ownership at IOI, and provide timely market and financeability feedback to improve sourcing.
• Partner with Investments on the tax-equity and preferred-equity attach motion, sourcing and pricing competitive debt within agreed turnarounds to deliver integrated capital solutions.
• Lead workstreams within the Head of Debt’s product agenda, such as new lender programs, financing structures, and term-sheet and documentation standards, in partnership with Structuring.
• Build and standardize repeatable execution processes across debt motions and drive adoption of AI-enabled modeling and automation across the deal lifecycle.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define and prioritize transaction tooling that increases deal throughput and execution quality.
• Represent Crux in industry and market dialogues, including webinars, whitepapers, and conferences, in coordination with coverage relationship owners.

Benefits

• Company covers 100% of employee healthcare premiums for available Aetna and Kaiser plans and subsidizes 80% of dependent premiums, if relevant.
• Company covers 100% of employee dental and vision premiums and 80% of dependent premiums, if relevant.
• Family-forming and fertility support.
• Parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• 10 company holidays per year.
• 20 days of paid time off per year.
• 401(k) account fees supported by Crux.
• Stock options.

What This Job Offers

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