Director, Power Utilization & Data Center Efficiency

Socket.dev; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 347,000 - 403,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Director to lead power utilization and infrastructure efficiency across its data center fleet. The role will drive data-driven planning, modeling, and optimization to maximize utilization, reliability, and cost efficiency, building teams across software, operations research, science, and program management.

You will define strategy, own roadmaps, and build production systems that inform fulfillment decisions and capacity planning at global scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure systems, operations research, data science, capacity planning, data center infrastructure, power systems, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of people management experience, including experience managing managers or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience leading technical organizations that build production systems, data platforms, forecasting models, optimization systems, or infrastructure planning tools.
• Experience applying modeling, optimization, simulation, forecasting, or statistical methods to large-scale operational or infrastructure problems.
• Experience partnering across engineering, operations, finance, planning, and program management teams to deliver measurable business and infrastructure outcomes.
• Experience setting strategy, defining roadmaps, and driving execution across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Communication experience influencing senior technical and business stakeholders on complex infrastructure tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term strategy, roadmap, and operating model for data-driven power planning and utilization across Meta’s data center infrastructure.
• Build data models representing power consumption, constraints, utilization, and reliability across data centers and capacity planning systems.
• Develop mathematical, statistical, and simulation-based models to predict power utilization, demand, risk, and headroom across the fleet.
• Build production systems that use model outputs to inform fulfillment decisions and improve power allocation and capacity utilization.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate power insights into execution plans.
• Lead efficiency programs to improve end-to-end metrics like cycle time, utilization, and cost.
• Establish metrics and decision systems to balance power availability, reliability, capacity, and business demand.
• Develop leaders and a durable leadership bench for infrastructure investment.

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics

Tools

Linear programming

Mixed-integer optimization

Stochastic modeling

Simulation

Reliability modeling

Job description

Meta is seeking a Director to lead power utilization and infrastructure efficiency across its data center fleet. The role will drive data-driven planning, modeling, and optimization to maximize utilization, reliability, and cost efficiency, building teams across software, operations research, science, and program management.

You will define strategy, own roadmaps, and build production systems that inform fulfillment decisions and capacity planning at global scale.