Site Selection Manager

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plan

Generous PTO

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a senior Site Procurement Lead to drive the US data center land strategy, securing powered land and negotiating leases with operators. You will perform rigorous diligence on power, buildability, and permitting, while managing brokers and developers across multiple projects.

You will partner with Finance on multi-year capital planning and work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on timelines and commercial terms. Expect 20%+ travel to meet project needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in real estate with a focus on data centers or large industrial projects.
• Ability to rapidly assess land viability for data center development: power, buildability, permitting.
• Strong ownership mindset and proactive problem-solving.
• Willingness to travel 20%+ as projects require.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site procurement strategy for the US data center portfolio, sourcing and evaluating powered land and negotiating leases with data center operators.
• Conduct site due diligence: evaluate utility and behind-the-meter power at 200MW+ scale, and assess buildability through documents and reports.
• Understand permitting requirements at each site and their implications for construction timelines.
• Maintain relationships with brokers, landowners, and developers, and perform vendor due diligence including on-site audits with engineers.
• Collaborate with Finance on multi-year investment and lead commercial negotiations with landowners and developers.

Skills

Real estate

Data centers

Land viability evaluation

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.

• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Development Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Find enough land to deploy multiple gigawatts a week. By 2030 we need to bring on multiple gigawatts of new capacity every week, which means securing sites at a pace and scale no one in the industry has operated at. You'll own finding and locking that land ahead of the build.

• Get power online in months, not years. Most of the clock runs before the lease is ever signed. You'll optimize the pre-signature work, site diligence, permitting, and development, so a site goes from signed lease to live power in under six months.

• Acquire 10s to 100s of GWs behind the meter. Reaching that scale means generating on-site instead of waiting on grid interconnection. You'll secure the land and behind-the-meter solar generation to get there.

Role Scope

• Lead the site procurement strategy for the US data center portfolio, sourcing and evaluating powered land for large-scale development and negotiating leases with data center operators.

• Conduct site due diligence: evaluate utility and behind-the-meter power at 200MW+ scale, and assess buildability through title docs, surveys, geotechnical reports, and environmental studies.

• Understand permitting requirements at each site and their implications for the construction schedule.

• Maintain relationships with brokers, landowners, and developers so a valid site is never missed, and run vendor due diligence including on-site audits with specialist engineers.

• Work directly with DC Design to keep sites matched to the latest technical requirements, and own capacity planning and forecasting across clients and regions.

• Partner with Finance on multi-year infrastructure investment and cost structures, and lead commercial negotiations with landowners and developers.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly,

• You've worked in real estate with a focus on data centers or other large industrial projects, and you've closed large, complex deals.

• You assess land viability for data center development fast and rigorously: power, buildability, and permitting.

• You bring a customer-centric mindset, strong ownership, and proactive problem-solving.

• You align stakeholders across diverse internal and external teams, and you'll travel 20%+ as projects require.

• Bonus: Behind-the-meter power evaluation. Hyperscale-scale land deals. Utility interconnection familiarity. Multi-region portfolio planning.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).

• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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