Vice President Project Development - CO280

Reports to: CEO

Location: Hybrid – North America (HQ: Vancouver, BC)

About CO280

CO280 is a leading developer of low-carbon industrial infrastructure projects. As a top 3 global BECCS developer, we hold more than $1B in signed CDR offtakes from buyers including Microsoft, Google, JPMorgan, Salesforce, and Stripe. We pioneered BECCS in North America, partnering with the continent's largest pulp and paper companies to retrofit mills with carbon capture and sequestration and deliver permanent carbon removal at scale.

We are now expanding to deliver low-carbon power solutions across the data center market, applying key advantages we already possess: trusted hyperscaler relationships, a portfolio of pre-qualified industrial sites, expertise in energy and CCS project development and access to capital. We've identified and pre-qualified more than 20 industrial sites representing approximately 6 GW of potential capacity — not just parcels of land, but strategic infrastructure platforms with existing industrial zoning, water rights, transmission access, and established host relationships that dramatically compress development timelines in a market where speed-to-power is everything.

This is the rare moment when a market this large is gated by a problem this specific. The AI buildout is the defining industrial expansion of the decade, and power is the constraint holding it back, with interconnection queues running four to seven years and the industry defaulting to unabated gas it does not want to burn. CO280 is building the platform that answers it.

You'll join a close-knit team of entrepreneurial, collaborative, and transparent operators who have developed, delivered, and scaled new technologies and industrial infrastructure across multiple verticals.  We believe clean power must be practical, bankable, and scalable to move the needle on net zero and earn social license. If you want to help build the projects the energy transition is waiting on, this is a seat at the table.

The Role

The Vice President Project Development will build and lead CO280's low carbon power data center infrastructure platform — owning project origination, development strategy, strategic partnerships, and the project development organization. You will identify, originate, secure, and advance gigawatt-scale infrastructure opportunities from concept through Final Investment Decision (FID), working across utilities, industrial hosts, OEMs, EPCs, hyperscalers, AI developers, and capital partners to turn strategic sites into bankable projects.

This is a relationship-driven leadership role. Success will depend as much on the executive relationships you bring as the projects you've delivered. Existing relationships across hyperscalers, neoclouds, data center developers, utilities, power developers, OEMs, EPCs, infrastructure investors, and other strategic partners will enable CO280 to originate opportunities faster and build projects that competitors cannot.

Solutions may span gas-to-power + CCS, biomass, and solar with storage — owned and operated by CO280 and/or with partners. You own development through FID; at FID, the project engineering team leads execution, with your continued commercial support through construction to commercial operation.

This role exists because the AI industry has discovered that compute is no longer constrained by chips — it's constrained by power. Every major hyperscaler is competing to secure gigawatts of generation capacity while utilities face interconnection queues measured in years. CO280 is uniquely positioned to solve that problem by combining strategic industrial sites, deep customer relationships, and proven infrastructure development expertise. The Vice President Project Development will convert those advantages into one of North America's largest low-carbon infrastructure portfolios.

Your first 12–18 months will include:

Building CO280's project development function and playbook.

Converting pre-qualified host sites into data center-ready opportunities.

Securing the company's first anchor AI infrastructure customers.

Advancing the first one or two projects to Final Investment Decision.

Key Responsibilities

Origination & Development

Drive new low-carbon power projects from origination through FID, then support the project engineering team commercially through construction to commercial operation.

Develop CO280's project origination strategy by matching industrial host sites with hyperscaler demand, transmission availability, fiber infrastructure and regional power market opportunities.

Own the development budget and project economics for each project through stage-gates to FID, including scenario and sensitivity analysis on key inputs.

Partnerships & Commercial

Build executive relationships with utilities, industrial hosts, hyperscalers, neoclouds, data center developers, OEMs, EPCs, gas suppliers, and strategic partners across the project value chain.

Negotiate contracts with …