Senior Director, M&A

The Senior Director, M&A is a critical leadership role responsible for driving MEI’s growth through strategic project acquisitions across distributed generation, utility-scale solar, and energy storage asset classes. This role sits at the center of MEI’s expansion and into new markets and technologies—shaping transaction strategy, leading complex deal execution, and building scalable acquisition processes that support long-term portfolio growth.

Reporting to the EVP, M&A, the Senior Director will lead teams, partner cross-functionally, and play a hands-on role in closing high-impact transactions that move projects from opportunity to construction and financing. This leadership role will carry a big presence in our New York office and within the broader M&A organization, with responsibility spanning people leadership, transaction ownership, and continuous improvement of MEI’s acquisition platform.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Co-Manage MEI’s project acquisition process across all lines-of-business and manage team of mid-level and junior team members in the New York City office.
• Act as main point of contact for all commercial deal points for developers and project partners throughout acquisition processes.
• Own modeling and commercial negotiation responsibilities from LOI execution through project Closing.
• Formulate transaction structures with Business Development team to ensure successful and efficient handoffs from LOI into core transaction process and lead due diligence and closing processes.=
• Work directly with legal team to ensure successful drafting, negotiation, and execution of high quality and bankable transaction and project agreements.
• Train new team members involved in diligence, modeling and assisting in project work, including managing tasks on various projects, delegation of appropriate workstreams, and oversight of key deliverables.
• Create strategies and tactics for how to streamline acquisition processes while ensuring successful and robust diligence processes remain for reviewing project-specific agreements, reports and documentation. 
• Drive innovation and process enhancement and serve as a change agent throughout the organization.
• Ensure adoption and collaboration, knowledge sharing, and best practices among partners and colleagues to help establish a robust project acquisition ecosystem.

What We Are Looking For:

• Broad understanding of renewable energy landscape, including distributed generation, utility scale solar, energy storage, and trends, with deeper technical and market understanding in one or more areas.
• Experience in a similar role leading multiple transactions through financial close, including direct involvement in diligence processes, transaction document negotiation, and close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven leadership of cross-functional and deal teams, with experience managing people, driving process improvement, and closing complex energy and storage transactions.
• Strong working familiarity with key transactional and legal terminology common in renewable energy, and demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional projects.
• Solid understanding of core business processes and the renewable energy financing landscape.
• An innovative, forward-looking mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong written and oral communication skills required.
• Fluency with Microsoft suite, particularly in Word (legal contracts) and Excel (discounted cashflow (DCF) financial models).
• Comfort managing broad sets of deliverables, with the ability to prioritize and execute efficiently.

Benefits

• PTO and company holidays
• Medical, dental, vision
• Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance
• 401(k) and company match
• Professional development stipend
• Strong culture of collaboration, performance, and personal growth