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…