Cruxclimate Senior Principal, Debt leads debt mandates from IOI through close across various debt products in clean energy finance. The role involves negotiation, execution, credit analysis, and team leadership.
Responsibilities
The Senior Principal, Debt is a senior deal leader on Crux's Debt Business Management team within Capital Solutions. Reporting to the Head of Debt, the Senior Principal leads a book of debt mandates from IOI through close across Crux's three debt motions: debt origination, debt advisory, and debt attached to tax equity and preferred equity structures. The role spans the full range of debt products, including construction, term, and back-leverage facilities, tax equity and credit bridge loans, equipment financing, and green bonds and securitization.
This role requires a passion for the clean energy transition, a builder's mindset, and a commitment to delivering results in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You thrive on solving complex problems and working collaboratively across teams to drive meaningful impact.
Lead a book of debt mandates from IOI through close as the primary negotiator and senior execution lead — driving lender diligence, structuring, negotiation, documentation, and close to institutional standards
Own transaction velocity and close rates across your deal book, contributing directly to the Debt team's revenue and P&L targets
Author credit memos and pricing recommendations and present transactions to Credit Committee, with rigorous analysis of credit quality, structural terms, risks, and mitigants
Lead deal teams of junior team members — staffing transactions, reviewing underwriting, diligence, and financial models, and mentoring junior team members on credit and execution
Run debt execution with lenders and institutional capital providers inside shared accounts, in partnership with Strategic Bank Capital and Strategic Institutional Capital
Partner with Industry Coverage to qualify opportunities early, take clean drivership of execution at IOI, and provide real-time market and financeability feedback that sharpens sourcing
Partner with Investments on the TE/preferred-equity attach motion, sourcing and pricing competitive debt within agreed turnarounds to deliver integrated capital solutions for sponsors and investors
Lead specific workstreams within the Head of Debt's product agenda — such as new lender programs, financing structures, or term sheet and documentation standards — in partnership with Structuring
Help build and standardize repeatable execution processes across debt motions, and drive adoption of AI-enabled modeling and automation across the deal lifecycle
Partner with Product and Engineering to define and prioritize transaction tooling that increases deal throughput and execution quality