Energy Analytics Manager - Data Center Forecasting

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 197,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta’s Infrastructure organization seeks a Manager to lead energy analytics for our global data center portfolio. You will shape forecasting models and frameworks that inform capacity planning, budgeting, procurement strategy, and rate design across Meta's data centers.

You will build and mentor a distributed analytics team, set high standards, and partner with Finance and Infrastructure leadership to quantify exposure to energy price and volume volatility, developing scalable data systems and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in energy, utilities, or related field.
• 4+ years of direct people management experience.
• Hands-on experience analyzing energy usage data, electric tariffs, and wholesale energy market data.
• Experience owning forecasting or analytical models used in budgeting, capacity, or investment decisions.
• Experience building or materially scaling an analytical capability rather than inheriting an established one.
• Advanced Excel skills with large data sets.
• Communication and data visualization skills.
• Experience developing narratives and communicating effectively with multiple stakeholders and leadership.
• Experience training, mentoring, and leading analytics professionals, and experience developing team members at different points in their career.
• Background establishing programmatic approaches to work, supporting teams, and developing cross-functional relationships.
• Experience prioritizing across competing stakeholder demands and communicating trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of energy analysts across data center portfolio analytics and forecasting.
• Own hiring, onboarding, capacity planning, and team structure.
• Develop ICs and emerging team leads.
• Establish career pathways and succession depth.
• Lead energy rate and usage analysis for Meta's data centers.
• Develop and improve models to forecast energy usage, generation, and cost.
• Set analytical standards, governance, and QA of outputs.
• Support development of new rate structures for data center locations.
• Characterize forecast uncertainty with scenarios and ranges.
• Build energy risk quantification capabilities and data pipelines.
• Build standardized tooling and data products for the portfolio.
• Consolidate energy data across utilities and markets.
• Own data controls and escalation paths.
• Lead monthly/annual summaries to leadership.
• Partner with Infrastructure stakeholders on design and capacity trends.
• Provide energy expertise to internal teams.
• Represent energy analytics in cross-functional planning forums.
• Refine processes and planning cycles for decision making.
• Travel up to 30%.

Skills

People management

Forecasting & analytics

Data interpretation

Communication & storytelling

Excel & large datasets

Stakeholder management

Mentoring analytics professionals

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Python

Data warehouses

Job description

Meta’s Infrastructure organization seeks a Manager to lead energy analytics for our global data center portfolio. You will shape forecasting models and frameworks that inform capacity planning, budgeting, procurement strategy, and rate design across Meta's data centers.

You will build and mentor a distributed analytics team, set high standards, and partner with Finance and Infrastructure leadership to quantify exposure to energy price and volume volatility, developing scalable data systems and