Data Center Site Selection Manager

Meta Careers; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Site Selection Manager in New York to lead the location strategy and guide the end-to-end site selection process for large-scale data center projects.

You will negotiate with landlords, government agencies, utilities, and service providers; coordinate with legal, policy, finance, and engineering teams to ensure cost-efficient, reliable, and scalable infrastructure while managing complex deals and incentives.

Responsibilities

• Develop Meta's data center location strategy in assigned geography.
• Lead feasibility discussions and contract negotiations with service providers, property owners, and utility companies.

Job description

# Data Center Site Selection ManagerNew York, NY Data Center Strategy+ 1 moreApply nowMeta designs, builds, leases, and operates high-performance, efficient data centers. Locating, developing and managing this data center infrastructure in a way that ensures reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency is synonymous with ensuring high uptime, capacity availability, flexibility and capital and operational cost efficiency. Meta is seeking an experienced, organized, and collaborative Site Selection Manager to join the Data Center Site Selection team.We are seeking a Data Center Site Selection Manager who has extensive experience negotiating large, complex deals and an extensive knowledge of the legal agreements that accompany them. The Data Center Site Selection Manager should also have experience thinking both strategically and analytically, develop out-of-the box solutions and can navigate the challenges that accompany leasing projects and portfolios of large magnitude.---## Data Center Site Selection Manager Responsibilities* Develop Meta's owned data center location strategy in assigned geography and manage the site selection effort for real estate, including partnering with teams focused on economic development incentives, energy and utilities, network connectivity, legal, policy, and financial considerations* Lead feasibility discussions and contract negotiations with service providers, property owners, economic development agencies, and utility companies* Negotiate letters of intent, land or building purchases, economic development incentives, water and sewer supply, and other site-specific agreements, and support power negotiations* Partner with internal organizations, including capacity planning, energy teams, data center design, construction, network engineering, legal, policy, communications, and finance