Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager

Meta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager to join the Strategic Planning team. You will help shape Meta’s global data center roadmap, craft end-to-end infrastructure scaling strategies, and drive plans to improve efficiency for a rapidly growing platform.

You will manage transformational initiatives, evaluate trade-offs, and present recommendations to executive leadership, partnering with capacity engineering, construction, site selection, and finance teams.

Qualifications

• Experience developing infrastructure strategies and programs.
• Ability to lead transformational strategic initiatives.
• Experience influencing executive leadership.
• Strong cross-functional partnership across capacity stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leverage technical experience to build large transformational programs across Infrastructure.
• Develop data center planning strategies to improve reliability, cost and operational efficiency.
• Drive investment decisions covering billions of dollars to scale the footprint.
• Partner with capacity stakeholders to influence site selection, construction, and operations.

Skills

Infrastructure strategy

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager# Data Center Strategy & Planning ManagerBellevue, WA+2 locationsData Center Strategy+ 5 moreApply nowWe are looking for a Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager with experience in developing infrastructure strategies and programs to join the Strategic Planning team within the Data Center organization. In this role, you'll be part of the team that builds Meta’s global data center roadmap, develops end to end infrastructure scaling strategies, and develops plans to drive efficiency in our infrastructure that set the direction for one of the fastest growing platforms in the world.As a Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager, you will be accountable for driving investment decisions that cover billions of dollars and help scale our data center footprint efficiently to meet our growing product and service needs. This is a unique opportunity where you will be responsible for developing and leading transformational strategic initiatives and capacity programs from inception, evaluating trade-offs, and driving recommendations to executive leadership, and taking them through implementation. This is an individual contributor role, where you’re at home rolling up the sleeves and being in the details, as well as being experienced to think big picture, project manage complex initiatives, and influence partner teams to change the status quo.This is a highly cross-functional role where you will be expected to partner with our data center capacity stakeholders (capacity engineering, network engineering, construction, site selection, site & facility operations, network, finance).---## Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager Responsibilities* Leverage technical experience and expertise to identify and build large transformational programs and initiatives across Infrastructure that scale Meta’s Data Center footprint efficiently* Develop new Data Center planning strategies that focus on driving improvements in reliability and achieving cost and operational efficiency, including reductions in deployment times, improvements in data center power utilization, and service placement optimizations