Director of Site Selection

Manage the team and scale the program responsible for sourcing multiple GWs of US powered land, powered shell, and turnkey opportunities through a network of brokers, landowners, and developers. Fluidstack is focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them.

Responsibilities

Manage the team and scale the program responsible for sourcing multiple GWs of US powered land, powered shell, and turnkey opportunities through a network of brokers, landowners, and developers; Run diligence on every candidate site, including utility and behind-the-meter power at 4200MW+ scale, buildability, and permitting requirements mapped against the construction schedule; Negotiate leases, PSAs, and JV structures with landowners, developers, data center operators, and private equity firms, and test each deal's financeability and multi-year cost with Finance and executive leadership; Direct vendor due diligence, including on-site audits with specialist engineers, and work with the DC Design team so every site meets current technical requirements; Own capacity planning and forecasting across all clients and regions, and build and mentor the site selection team as it scales

Requirements

You've led hyperscale data center site acquisitions from first look to signature, and you personally negotiated the powered land and site development deals you closed; You've closed large, multi-party real estate deals across leases, PSAs, and JVs while running a multi-site portfolio at the same time; You've walked away from sites that looked good on paper because the title, geotechnical report, permitting path, or utility study said otherwise; Brokers, landowners, and developers bring you sites before they reach the market, because you built those relationships and kept them; You've built site selection processes and systems that held up as deal volume and team size grew quickly; You bring executive leadership, finance, design, and construction to a site decision with a clear recommendation and the reasoning behind it; You're on site when it matters, with travel of 20% or more; Experience with behind-the-meter and bridge-to-utility power solutions, JV structuring and project finance, and large-load interconnection and utility tariff processes