Head of Originations

Comity • New York, NY

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Comity is looking for an Executive Director, Head of Originations to lead the commercial scaling of our insurance-based collateral solution across PPAs, battery tolling structures, interconnection agreements, and other structured renewable energy contracts.
You will own originations end-to-end: refining commercial strategy, sourcing and structuring transactions, and channeling market insight into our underwriting and technology platform.
As a key leader, you will help build the financial rails of our future energy systems.

Requirements

• Seasoned project finance professional: You have 10+ years of experience in renewable energy project finance, with deep exposure to structuring and executing complex transactions in the US.
• Builder mentality: You thrive in 0→1 environments. You operate effectively under ambiguity, move with urgency, and are motivated by building a new category, not just optimizing an existing one. You do what it takes to move the business forward.
• Commercial originator: You originate, not just execute. You bring and build relationships, develop strong personal connections, articulate commercial strategy, and consistently source new business. You know how to position differentiated financial solutions in competitive institutional markets.
• Highly analytical: You are fluent in complex financial models. You think in stress cases, credit protections, risk allocation, and structural mitigants, and you provide clear guidance to underwriting teams without needing to run every model yourself.
• Clear communicator: You move fluidly between structuring, commercial negotiation, underwriting discussions, and product conversations, and you explain complexity with clarity and conviction.
• Team-oriented operator: You understand that building a product requires tight collaboration across teams. You operate with high ownership and low ego, and you elevate the performance of the teams around you.
• Technology enthusiast: You are excited about leveraging a proprietary, AI-powered underwriting platform that enhances your judgment and scales your impact. You see technology as a competitive advantage that increases speed, precision, and commercial reach.
• Collateral insight: You understand how collateral is structured and the various forms of credit support used in PPAs and interconnection agreements (e.g., letters of credit, surety bonds). You recognize inefficiencies in the current system, and see the opportunity to modernize and optimize how risk is secured.

Responsibilities

• Proactively source high-quality counterparties across IPPs, utilities, traders, corporates, and data centers.
• Lead transaction structuring in close collaboration with our credit team, ensuring rigorous analysis of contractual risk allocation, downside scenarios, and structural protections.
• Continuously sharpen our positioning versus traditional collateral solutions.
• Leverage your network and market judgment to build repeatable origination channels and deepen strategic relationships.
• Act as a core user of our underwriting and origination systems, engaging with engineering to translate market realities and transaction complexity into scalable workflows and AI-powered risk tools that increase our speed, precision, and volume.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed