Data Center Leasing & Site Strategy Lead

Meta; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 170,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a Data Center Site Selection Manager - Leasing to lead acquisition and lease negotiations for strategic data center sites in the United States. The role requires extensive experience in large-scale leasing and cross-functional collaboration across legal, finance, and operations.

The position emphasizes due diligence on energy, land, and regulatory factors, with domestic travel of 10-25%. A bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of data center capacity project experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a business, engineering, environmental, or energy related discipline.
• 8+ years experience in facilitating, evaluating, or managing data center capacity projects.
• Experience collaborating across multiple internal functions, including legal, compliance, finance, and accounting.
• Familiarity with various lease structures (Modified Gross, NNN, YoC, etc.).
• Experience leading large scale data center lease negotiations.
• Experience synthesizing commercial, regulatory, market, and contractual details to all organizational levels.
• Proven track record building and running leasing programs.
• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead data center acquisition and lease contracting negotiations.
• Perform technical due diligence and validate site viability across energy, land, etc
• Manage supplier relationships and best practices
• Perform market analysis and develop leasing site selection strategy
• Stay informed of the technical, market, and regulatory developments in the data center industry
• Contribute to organizational strategy and development of leasing standards at Meta
• Travel domestically (10-25% at times)

Skills

Lease negotiations

Due diligence

Market analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Data center capacity

Portfolio management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/engineering/environmental/energy

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Meta seeks a Data Center Site Selection Manager - Leasing to lead acquisition and lease negotiations for strategic data center sites in the United States. The role requires extensive experience in large-scale leasing and cross-functional collaboration across legal, finance, and operations.

The position emphasizes due diligence on energy, land, and regulatory factors, with domestic travel of 10-25%. A bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of data center capacity project experience are required.