Senior Director, Regional Data Center Operations

Meta; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 272,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a Senior Director to lead Data Center Facility Operations across a multi-area region, owning the multi-year operating strategy and building a recursive leadership bench. The role shapes the operating model for fleet-wide reliability, costs, and capacity, and partners with senior leadership to deliver across sites and future campuses.

The candidate will drive global standards, implement scalable processes, and ensure safety, efficiency, and strong supplier relationships while reporting

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building, developing, and leading high-performance technical or operations organizations, including 8+ years leading through other managers or directors
• Experience leading mission-critical operations across multiple geographies or sites with full P&L or budget accountability
• Experience setting and executing multi-year operating strategy, and aligning executive stakeholders behind it
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining director-level leaders, and building succession depth
• Experience communicating with and influencing executive leadership, including presenting operational risk and strategy to senior decision-makers
• Experience leading large-scale organizational change through ambiguity, including reorganizations, rapid growth, or new site/market entry
• Experience owning large OpEx and CapEx budgets and strategic supplier relationships
• Knowledge and understanding of critical power and cooling infrastructure
• Ability to travel approximately 25-50%

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end leadership and operational accountability for Facility Operations across multiple geographic areas, encompassing all operational campuses in the region and the operational readiness of future sites
• Define and own the multi-year facility operations strategy for the region, and align senior company leadership behind it
• Translate Meta's infrastructure and capacity roadmap into regional operating plans
• Build and develop the region's leadership bench: hire, coach, and grow leaders, changing the growth trajectory of senior leaders and maintaining a clear succession plan for critical roles
• Implement organization-wide processes, standards, tools, and monitoring systems
• Where gaps exist, drive the creation of new global standards rather than local adaptations
• Partner with peer leaders to establish globally consistent operating models, and hold the region accountable for adopting them
• Be accountable for their region's OpEx and CapEx portfolio and major supplier/contract strategy, including influencing the multi-year cost trajectory for their region and performing against efficiency targets that are visible at the fleet level and at the individual site level
• Influence and partner with other Area Directors and stakeholders to define the KPI and reliability framework for mission-critical facility operations in the region
• Hold leaders in their region accountable to it and use it to drive fleet-level improvement
• Serve as the senior escalation and decision authority for major incidents, equipment failures, and systemic reliability risks
• Ensure rigorous root cause analysis and that corrective actions are institutionalized across the fleet, not just locally remediated
• Partner with senior leadership in cross-functional organizations - resolving competing priorities and cross-functional tradeoffs at the regional and global level
• Own operational readiness and construction turnover outcomes for the region, ensuring new capacity comes online safely, on schedule, and fully staffed
• Champion safety and EHS culture as a non-negotiable operating standard across the region
• Represent Meta Facility Operations externally where appropriate (industry forums, supplier and utility partnerships)
• Identify and drive adoption of automation, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches that materially improve reliability, efficiency, and staffing leverage across the region
• Own org health as a measured outcome — Meta’s Pulse indicator, attrition, upward feedback, and manager effectiveness — and diagnose and resolve complex health issues spanning multiple teams and disciplines
• Distill and communicate the operational excellence vision and roadmap for the broader discipline, and drive its adoption across their region, stakeholders and the broader Infra Data Center organization
• Drive operational contributions to cross-company initiatives and campaigns including recruiting, leadership development programs, site initiatives, and industry engagement
• Drive engagement on these programs within their organization
• Hold themselves, their organization, and XFN partners accountable to the Code of Conduct, regulatory and permitting obligations, and company policy
• Serve as an escalation point and foster a culture where people feel safe and empowered to raise concerns

Skills

Region leadership

Strategic planning

Roadmap translation

Talent development

Process & standards

Global standards

Operating models

OpEx/CapEx management

KPI & reliability framework

Escalation authority

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional partnering

Safety & EHS culture

Automation/A.I. adoption

Org health management

Communication of vision

Education

Engineering degree

Advanced degree in engineering or business

Job description

Meta seeks a Senior Director to lead Data Center Facility Operations across a multi-area region, owning the multi-year operating strategy and building a recursive leadership bench. The role shapes the operating model for fleet-wide reliability, costs, and capacity, and partners with senior leadership to deliver across sites and future campuses.

The candidate will drive global standards, implement scalable processes, and ensure safety, efficiency, and strong supplier relationships while reporting