Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Development Operations Lead - Megapack

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Full-timePalo Alto, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Five to twelve or more years in renewable energy development operations, project management, or infrastructure project delivery.
Experience building or significantly scaling development operations at a utility-scale solar, storage, or wind developer.
Strong proficiency in project management tools and experience building portfolio-level tracking systems.
Experience managing development budgets across large portfolios with annual spend of $25 million or more.
Familiarity with the full renewable energy development lifecycle from site identification through Notice to Proceed, including land, permitting, interconnection, and offtake milestones.
Experience with land acquisition workflows, including option agreements, lease negotiations, title review, and closing processes.

Responsibilities

Design and implement the development team’s project management framework, including stage-gate processes, milestone tracking, and go/no-go decision workflows.
Own development budget tracking and reporting across the full portfolio, ensuring spend aligns with strategic priorities and capital allocation plans.
Manage vendor and consultant relationships for environmental, survey, legal, and title work, and negotiate master service agreements.
Coordinate land acquisition and legal workflows, including option agreements, lease negotiations, title and survey coordination, interconnection deposits, and permitting applications.
Build reporting dashboards and key performance indicator frameworks to give leadership real-time visibility into pipeline health, spend, and risk.
Develop and maintain internal knowledge management systems, templates, and playbooks for repeatable development processes.
Drive cross-functional coordination between development, interconnection, origination, engineering, and finance workstreams.

Category	Energy - Solar & Storage
Location	Palo Alto, California
Requisition ID	281999
Type	Full-time

Job Description

Tesla is seeking a Development Operations Lead to serve as the operational backbone of Tesla Energy’s project development organization. This role will build the systems, processes, and workflows that enable the team to scale across solar, storage, and powered land projects. The Operations Lead will own the team’s project management infrastructure — processes, budget tracking, vendor management, legal and contract coordination, and cross-functional reporting. This person will ensure that nothing falls through the cracks as the pipeline grows, and will be a key enabler of the team’s speed and execution quality. Successful candidates will have deep experience in renewable energy development operations and a builder’s mentality. We are seeking someone who thrives in ambiguity, can stand up processes from scratch, and has a passion for Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Job Responsibilities

Design and implement the development team’s project management framework, including stage-gate processes, milestone tracking, and go/no-go decision workflows

Own development budget tracking and reporting across the full portfolio, ensuring spend aligns with strategic priorities and capital allocation plans

Manage vendor and consultant relationships (environmental, survey, legal, title) and negotiate master service agreements

Coordinate land acquisition and legal workflows, including option agreements, lease negotiations, title/survey coordination, interconnection deposits, and permitting applications

Build reporting dashboards and KPI frameworks to give leadership real-time visibility into pipeline health, spend, and risk

Develop and maintain internal knowledge management systems, templates, and playbooks for repeatable development processes

Drive cross-functional coordination between development, interconnection, origination, engineering, and finance workstreams

Job Requirements

5–12+ years in renewable energy development operations, project management, or infrastructure project delivery

Experience building or significantly scaling development operations at a utility-scale solar, storage, or wind developer

Strong proficiency in project management tools and experience building portfolio-level tracking systems

Experience managing development budgets across large portfolios ($25M+ annual spend)

Familiarity with the full renewable energy development lifecycle from site identification through NTP, including land, permitting, interconnection, and offtake milestones

Experience with land acquisition workflows — option agreements, lease negotiations, title review, and closing processes

About the Company

Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Tesla makes electric cars and batteries that store power for homes and utilities, and it develops self-driving software and humanoid robots. In 2023, its Model Y became the first electric vehicle to rank as the world's best-selling car. Buyers order the Model 3 sedan, Model Y SUV, or Cybertruck pickup directly from Tesla instead of through dealers, and they charge on its Supercharger fast-charging network. It also sells Megapack and Powerwall batteries, runs a robotaxi service, and charges drivers a monthly fee for self-driving software that still needs their supervision. Tesla was founded in 2003, with Elon Musk as its lead early investor and a recognized co-founder, and it is based in Austin, Texas.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Founded: 2003

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