Data Center Site Acquisition Manager - San Jose

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); Vor Ort; USD 159.000 - 360.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

TikTok Inc. is seeking a DC Site Acquisition Manager as part of the Datacenter Development team. You will help identify market options, assess resources, and secure capacity to meet rapid platform growth.

You will partner with legal, tax, finance and other functions to advise leadership on investments, optimize energy budgets, and drive rightsizing initiatives, while ensuring timely delivery and cost efficiency.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related fields.
• Experience leading complex initiatives to timely completion.
• Proven track record leading significant data center deals to decision and execution.
• Strong analytical, communication and negotiation skills with executive engagement.
• High proficiency in Portuguese to communicate with stakeholders in Brazil.

Aufgaben

• Gather and evaluate market options and secure data center capacity to meet demand.
• Provide commercial aircover to delivery teams for timely capacity delivery.
• Collaborate with legal, tax, finance, GR to advise leadership on investments with thorough analysis.
• Provide commercial aircover to support operational-related needs.
• Conduct energy cost analysis and drive optimization of budget structure.
• Lead rightsizing and optimization initiatives as needed.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Negotiation

Executive communication

Portuguese fluency

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities

To support the fast growth and manage the massive content on the platform, TikTok's infrastructure team is building hyper-scale data centers globally that host hundreds of thousands of servers.

The Datacenter Development team is responsible for site selection, acquisition and delivery. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end commercial activities of our data centers in US and LATAM, spanning from early due diligence to operational support.

As the DC site acquisition manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Gather and evaluate market options, conduct investigations on key resources, devise strategies and eventually secure data center capacities to meet business demand.
• Provide commercial aircover to our delivery team to ensure timely delivery of capacity to our businesses.
• Work with cross-functional colleagues, such as legal, tax, finance, GR, to make informed recommendations to top management for data center investment, backed by our thorough investigation.
• Provide commercial aircover to support operational-related needs.
• Conduct energy cost analysis and drive initiatives to optimize the budget structure.
• Conduct rightsizing and optimization initiatives as and when required.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or other relevant fields;
• Organizational, coordination and project management with proven experience leading complex initiatives to successful completion in a timely manner
• Proof track of record to lead significant data center deals to decision and execution. Deep insights in land development, various infra ownership and full life cycle management of infra deals.
• Strong analytical, communication and negotiation skills. Executive communication and engagement experience.
• High proficiency in Portuguese is required to communicate with stakeholders in Brazil

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in tech infrastructure procurement, supply chain management, construction or facility management.
• Direct experience working in the LATAM market is a plus.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $159000 - $360000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.