Director, Investment Committee Governance & Operations

Digital Realty; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

Equity awards

Paid time off

Holidays

Wellness benefits

Education benefits

Job summary

Digital Realty is hiring a Director to own the global Investment Committee governance and operations. You will manage the weekly IC process, establish submission standards, and maintain records for investment approvals across multiple geographies.

You will lead internal and external resources, develop standardized materials, and drive data-driven insights for senior leadership. You will define the IC information standards, surface key risks and metrics, and partner with teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional processes and governance programs.
• Strong analytical capabilities including reporting and trend analysis.
• Ability to translate complex information into actionable insights.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption.
• Familiarity with workflow, document-management, reporting, automation, data, and AI-enabled technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the global IC process end-to-end, including intake, routing, committee consideration, approval documentation, implementation handoffs, and record retention.
• Manage weekly IC meetings, ensuring materials comply with submission requirements and are presented in a clear, consistent, decision-ready format.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, submission standards, decision rights, controls, and operating procedures.
• Lead and develop internal, offshore, and third-party resources supporting IC operations.
• Own the design, governance, and continuous evolution of IC templates, submission requirements, and decision-support materials.
• Ensure IC materials clearly surface the key information, risks, mitigants, assumptions, and metrics required by the Committee.
• Partner with submitting teams to ensure evolving standards are clearly understood and consistently adopted.
• Develop reporting on IC activity, including submission volumes, approval trends, capital approved, and geographic/investment trends.
• Capture key approval terms, assumptions, and metrics in a structured and comparable format.
• Develop benchmarking using IC approval information and enterprise data to compare metrics across projects, regions, and time periods.
• Serve as a resource to senior leadership for questions regarding investment approvals, historical assumptions, benchmarking, cost trends, and related information.
• Maintain a controlled, auditable repository of IC submissions, approvals, analyses, amendments, and related documentation.
• Define and execute the long-term roadmap for IC processes, systems, reporting, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Represent IC requirements across technology, data, and reporting initiatives, promoting consistent definitions across IC submissions and source systems.
• Lead implementation and adoption of process and technology improvements that increase efficiency, scalability, transparency, and usability.

Skills

Analytical skills

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder influence

Communication skills

Workflow familiarity

Automation & AI tools

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Business/Real Estate/Accounting/Economics

Job description

Job Description

Director, Investment Committee Governance & Operations

Location

New York, NY, Austin, TX, Dallas, TX

Purpose

The Director, Investment Committee Governance & Operations owns Digital Realty's global Investment Committee (IC) operating model, governance framework, and decision-support processes. The role manages the weekly IC process, establishes submission standards, maintains the Company's system of record for investment approvals, and drives continuous improvement from intake through decision, documentation, and implementation handoff. Beyond operating the approval process, the Director ensures critical investment information is captured consistently and can be readily retrieved, benchmarked, and analyzed. This includes preserving the key assumptions and metrics supporting approvals and enabling senior leadership and downstream functions to understand what was approved and the basis for the decision. Working across Portfolio Management Group (PMG), Acquisitions, Hyperscale Development & Leasing (HDL), Finance, Accounting, Design Engineering & Construction (DE&C), and senior leadership, the Director drives continual improvement in governance, information quality, systems, and operating efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Investment Committee Governance & Operations

• Own and operate the global IC process end-to-end, including intake, classification, routing, committee consideration, approval documentation, implementation handoffs, and record retention.
• Manage weekly IC meetings, ensuring materials comply with established submission requirements and are presented in a clear, consistent, and decision-ready format.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, submission standards, decision rights, controls, and operating procedures.
• Lead and develop internal, offshore, and third-party resources supporting IC operations.

Investment Committee Content & Information Standards

• Own the design, governance, and continuous evolution of IC templates, submission requirements, and decision-support materials in response to evolving business priorities, risks, and IC and executive feedback.
• Ensure IC materials clearly and consistently surface the key information, risks, mitigants, assumptions, and metrics required by the Committee.
• Partner with submitting teams to ensure evolving standards and requirements are clearly understood and consistently adopted.

Investment Approval Data, Benchmarking & Insights

• Develop reporting on IC activity, including submission volumes, approval trends, capital approved, and relevant geographic and investment trends.
• Capture key approval terms, assumptions, and metrics in a structured and comparable format.
• Develop benchmarking using IC approval information and relevant enterprise data to compare investment, development, and construction metrics across projects, regions, and time periods.
• Serve as a resource to senior leadership for questions regarding investment approvals, historical assumptions, benchmarking, cost trends, and related investment information.
• Maintain a controlled, searchable, and auditable repository of IC submissions, approvals, supporting analyses, amendments, and related documentation.

Technology & Continuous Improvement

• Define and execute the long-term roadmap for IC processes, systems, reporting, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Represent the IC's requirements across relevant technology, data, and reporting initiatives, promoting consistent definitions across IC submissions and source systems and ensuring information can be readily accessed, benchmarked, and presented to senior leadership.
• Lead implementation and adoption of process and technology improvements that increase efficiency, scalability, transparency, and usability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional processes, governance programs, operating-model initiatives, or investment-related functions.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including reporting, benchmarking, trend analysis, and translating complex information into actionable insights.
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes and systems while maintaining operational continuity.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption across diverse teams.
• Familiarity with workflow, document-management, reporting, automation, data, and AI-enabled technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A Bit About Our Team

Operations

Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation Range

$180,000 - $200,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits

For this role, benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.