Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function

The Director, Power Innovation will build and lead SB Energy's innovation program for the Power Generation business, focused on utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV), battery energy storage systems (BESS), and other renewable power and grid-support technologies for data centers. The role will develop the innovation strategy and multi-year roadmap; manage a disciplined portfolio and stage-gate process; and lead technology scouting, diligence, pilots, validation, and scale-up. Working across Development, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Grid Integration, Operations, Asset Management, Commercial, and Finance, the Lead will advance innovations that improve safety, schedule, capital cost, energy yield, availability, reliability, lifecycle value, and project competitiveness. The role will coordinate with the Data Center Innovation Lead on shared power solutions while retaining ownership of renewable-generation innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Power Innovation strategy. Define and maintain the multi-year innovation roadmap for utility-scale power generation technologies including solar PV, BESS, hybrid renewable plants, microgrids, grid integration, and other emerging technologies, aligned with corporate objectives and the company business plan.
Portfolio leadership. Build and manage a balanced portfolio of core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives; prioritize high-value problems and recommend funding, sequencing, resources, and stop/continue/scale decisions.
Opportunity discovery. Partner with Development, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Grid Integration, Operations, Asset Management, Commercial, and Finance to identify recurring problems, unmet needs, and value-creation opportunities and translate them into focused innovation challenges.
Technology scouting. Identify, benchmark, and qualify technologies and partners across solar modules, trackers, inverters and power electronics, BESS cells and systems, controls and EMS/SCADA, thermal and fire-safety systems, long-duration storage, grid-forming capability, and other advanced renewable technologies.
Evaluation and business cases. Assess opportunities through technical, operational, constructability, safety, code and regulatory, cybersecurity, environmental, commercial, financial, supply-chain, bankability, warranty, and implementation perspectives; develop production, total-cost-of-ownership, LCOE, and return-on-investment analyses as appropriate.
Pilots and test programs. Prepare stage-gate submissions and manage multiple pilots from charter through closeout, including scope, budget, schedule, test plans, site selection, success criteria, measurement and verification, risk reviews, and decision recommendations.