Senior Director, Energy & Infrastructure Policy

The position will focus on establishing and managing relationships with governments, regulators, and utilities to enable grid access, transmission capacity, and regulatory alignment for Tract’s investments, while maintaining visibility on adjacent policy frameworks such as the UK’s AI Growth Zones, the EU AI Action Plan, and national data-center or industrial-strategy initiatives.

• Build and manage networks across ministries, regulators, and transmission operators, facilitating senior Tract participation in high-level meetings, workshops, and consultations.
• Partner with the land strategy and deal teams to integrate energy, policy, and regulatory pathways into site acquisition, permitting, and project development.
• Collaborate with the Origination Strategy team to translate regulatory and policy insight into clear business implications, reporting, and executive materials.
• Monitor and analyze evolving datacenter, digital-infrastructure, and AI policy frameworks in Europe and the UK—such as the DSIT AI Growth Zones, the EU AI Action Plan, and national industrial-strategy initiatives—and assess their implications for Tract’s investments.
• Track and deliver KPIs, including:
• Develop and maintain active relationships with BNetzA, BMWK, TSOs (50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT, TransnetBW), Ofgem, National Grid ESO, Nordic TSOs, and relevant ministries and trade associations.
• Anticipate and interpret policy developments affecting power availability, transmission reform, permitting, and the broader digital-infrastructure ecosystem.
• Deliver structured outputs, including consultation calendars, regulatory and policy impact briefs, stakeholder engagement plans, and market-intelligence packs.
• Coordinate with internal and external advisors to ensure consistent and proactive participation in regulatory and policy processes.
• Lead Tract’s engagement strategy with governments, regulators, and utilities to secure grid access pathways and supportive policy conditions for large-scale data center development.
• Represent Tract in consultations and policy dialogues, ensuring alignment between regulatory and infrastructure developments and Tract’s strategic priorities.
• Timely delivery of impact notes and policy updates to leadership.

Tract is in search of a German fluent Senior Director, Energy & Infrastructure Policy – Europe to join our European team, reporting directly to the Vice President, Energy Strategy & Origination (Europe). This senior role will lead Tract’s policy engagement focused on energy and utilities-while also monitoring and influencing the broader policy landscape affecting digital and AI infrastructure.

This position is remote, with flexibility to be based in Berlin, another major German city, Amsterdam, London, or Madrid.

As a senior member of the Energy Strategy & Origination organization, the role works closely with the Origination Strategy, land strategy, and deal teams, ensuring that energy, infrastructure, and policy pathways are fully integrated into Tract’s market development and project delivery efforts. The successful candidate will combine deep understanding of European energy systems and regulation with fluency in digital-infrastructure policy and the ability to position Tract as a credible partner to both energy and technology policymakers.

• Detail-oriented and precise, capable of operating to private-equity standards.
• Stakeholder-engagement cadence (meetings, workshops, consultations).
• The position can be based in Germany or another major European hub (London, Amsterdam, Madrid). Regular travel (25–30%) will be required throughout Europe to Germany, Brussels, London, Nordic capitals, and to Tract’s Denver headquarters.
• Demonstrated experience engaging with government, regulatory, and policy bodies to enable infrastructure investment.
• Culturally agile, able to work within a U.S.-headquartered investment platform while engaging effectively with European institutions.
• Familiarity with EU and UK energy and digital-infrastructure regulation, permitting frameworks, and transmission-planning processes.
• Power access pathways identified and advanced with utilities/TSOs.
• Strategic thinker who can connect policy and regulatory frameworks with commercial impact.
• Curious, adaptable, and pragmatic in navigating both energy and digital-infrastructure policy landscapes.
• Established relationships with German ministries, regulators, and TSOs, with capacity to extend this network across Europe.
• Regulatory and policy milestones achieved (consultations, legislative inputs, hearings).
• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, manages multiple priorities, and drives progress independently.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to build credibility and facilitate senior-leadership engagement.
• 12+ years of experience in the energy, utilities, or infrastructure sector, with a strong focus on regulation, transmission, or large-load development.
• Native or fluent German speaker with excellent English; additional European languages a plus.
• Ability to synthesize regulatory, commercial, and policy inputs into actionable recommendations for senior decision-makers.

Tract employees enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package.