Senior Manager, Land Development

Fervo Energy is building the most cost-effective repeatable geothermal power plants in the world requiring a durable land and resource portfolio disciplined long-range planning and the ability to secure the resources rights and agreements needed for growth. As Fervo scales from first-of-a-kind projects to fleet-wide deployment were seeking a Senior Manager Land Development to architect the companys 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 companys 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.

Responsibilities

Land Strategy & Long-Range Planning

• 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.

Land Portfolio Strategy & Capital Allocation

• 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.

Leasing Acquisitions & Growth Initiatives

• 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.

Market Intelligence & Competitive Position

• Builds the companys 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.

Executive Communications & Cross-Functional Leadership

• 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.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors 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.

Preferred

• 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.

Location

Fervo Energy has corporate offices in Houston TX Golden CO Reno NV Oakland CA and Salt Lake City UT. This position is preferred to be based out of our Salt Lake City UT office with a hybrid work model.