Site Selection Manager
Site Selection Manager
Posted 14 days ago
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
- Site Selection & Pipeline Development
- Identify, acquire and advanced powered land, hyperscale, and colocation opportunities across priority U.S. markets
- Assess sites based on power availability, utility infrastructure, fiber proximity, land constraints, permitting pathways, environmental risk, and development feasibility
- Support market entry strategy and future campus growth initiatives across high-demand AI and cloud infrastructure markets
- Build and maintain relationships with landowners, brokers, utilities, municipalities, and local stakeholders
- Development & Due Diligence
- Lead front-end diligence on prospective sites, including title, survey, zoning, entitlement, environmental, geotechnical, utility, and infrastructure considerations
- Coordinate with internal development, design, engineering, power, and commercial teams to evaluate site viability and project risk
- Support the advancement of projects through acquisition, diligence, entitlement, permitting, and pre-construction milestones
- Identify development risks early and help build strategies to de-risk timelines, cost, and execution
- Power, Utilities & Infrastructure Strategy
- Evaluate the robustness of utility and behind-the-meter power solutions for large-scale data center developments
- Work closely with power, utility, and infrastructure teams to assess interconnection feasibility, substation requirements, transmission access, and speed-to-power
- Support diligence around water, wastewater, access roads, telecom/fiber, and other critical infrastructure requirements
- Help ensure sites are aligned with the scale, design, and timing requirements of AI, hyperscale, and cloud customers
- Cross-Functional Execution
- Partner with legal, finance, design, construction, power, and commercial teams to support acquisition and development decisions
- Prepare site summaries, diligence materials, risk assessments, and recommendations for internal leadership
- Support commercial discussions with data center operators, colocation providers, landowners, and infrastructure partners
- Operate with ownership and urgency in a lean, fast-paced environment where the team is scaling quickly
- Essential experience 3+ years of experience across data center site selection, land acquisition, real estate development, data center development, or powered land development
- Experience evaluating powered land, hyperscale campuses, colocation opportunities, or large-scale industrial infrastructure sites
- Strong understanding of utility infrastructure, power availability, interconnection, permitting, entitlement, environmental diligence, and development timelines
- Ability to assess land and infrastructure opportunities through a data center development lens
- Experience working with landowners, brokers, utilities, municipalities, consultants, and internal cross-functional teams
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate independently in a high-growth, fast-moving platform
- Strong commercial judgment, attention to detail, and ability to identify risk early in the development process
- Existing relationships across data center, land, power, utility, brokerage, or infrastructure markets would be highly valuable
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