Director, Data Center Development & Delivery

FourFound; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FourFound is seeking a Director, Development to lead regional data center development activities across multiple sites. The role coordinates land, permitting, utilities, engineering, and construction readiness with a strong cross-functional team.

The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years in data center or mission-critical development, a Bachelor’s degree, and proven ability to drive projects from diligence through delivery in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience across data center development, real estate development, or mission-critical infrastructure development.
• Experience across land development, zoning and entitlements, permitting, utility coordination, engineering, construction readiness.
• Strong commercial mindset with ability to evaluate development risk, project economics, and returns.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional development processes.
• Ability to influence across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional and multi-site development execution aligned with broader growth and investment objectives.
• Manage development activities across land, entitlements, tax incentives, power readiness, engineering, commercial coordination, and construction enablement.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across land, power, engineering, construction, legal, tax, procurement, underwriting, sales, and commercial teams.
• Ensure commercial, technical, and financial requirements are satisfied ahead of capital approval, land closing, and project kickoff.
• Identify development risks and proactively resolve blockers that could impact schedule, economics, or project delivery.
• Coordinate internal teams, consultants, contractors, and technical specialists across due diligence, feasibility, permitting, entitlement, and infrastructure planning.
• Establish governance frameworks, project schedules, risk registers, milestone reporting, and executive-level updates.
• Build strong relationships with utilities, municipalities, landowners, developers, consultants, and other key external stakeholders.
• Support projects from early-stage diligence through construction readiness and delivery.
• Develop repeatable processes, tools, templates, and reporting standards across development activities.
• Mentor and support development project managers and analysts.
• Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously across different markets.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Communication

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

FourFound is seeking a Director, Development to lead regional data center development activities across multiple sites. The role coordinates land, permitting, utilities, engineering, and construction readiness with a strong cross-functional team.

The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years in data center or mission-critical development, a Bachelor’s degree, and proven ability to drive projects from diligence through delivery in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment.