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Tesla Managing Counsel Energy Products 
United States, California, Palo Alto 
890173215

13.08.2024
What to Expect

Tesla is looking for a Managing Counsel, Energy Products, based in our CA or TX offices to support the growth of our global energy business. Reporting to the Assistant General Counsel, Energy Products, you will focus on our residential, commercial & industrial and utility-scale solar and energy storage and supercharging businesses in the US. You will also assist the business with international transactions in our core EMEA and APAC markets and our expansion into emerging markets.

What You’ll Do
  • Provide advice on a wide variety of strategic, regulatory and transactional matters for the Energy business in the US, including commercial and consumer matters
  • Structure and negotiate equipment supply, EPC, O&M, commodity, real property, interconnection, performance guarantee, warranty and other material project agreements for solar, energy storage and supercharger projects of all sizes, support project development and mergers and acquisitions transactions and have a good familiarity with financing-related matters
  • Review and help prepare responses to requests for proposals and other competitive tenders
  • Support solar and energy storage transactions in our core APAC and EMEA markets and advise on new market entry and new product launches for the Energy Products business around the world
What You’ll Bring
  • Excellent academic credentials, preferably with a Juris Doctor from a top-ranked law school. A current license to practice in one or more US jurisdictions
  • A minimum of 12 years’ practice experience at a well-regarded law firm, with in-house experience at a company in the energy industry strongly preferred
  • Experience structuring and leading negotiation of large transactions in energy, construction, project finance or a related practice area, with a preference for renewable energy experience
  • A team player with the ability to proactively identify problems, drive projects, make complex cost/benefit assessments, and identify pragmatic/creative legal and business solutions
  • Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively and to juggle competing priorities in a fast-paced, challenging environment. A quick and flexible learner, intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to quickly earn the confidence of your colleagues and effectively communicate with people at all levels of the organization
  • High standards, impeccable integrity and ethics, unquestionable good judgment, well-honed analytical skills, superior oral and written communications skills