Strategic Site-Selection Lead for Infrastructure Deployments

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior site selection leader to own geographies, develop screening criteria, and coordinate cross-functional teams across Power, Land, Development, Engineering, Environmental, and Finance to prioritize sites.

You will translate complex criteria into actionable screening workflows, build deployment plans, and present strategic recommendations to executives for deployment decisions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in site selection, infrastructure development, data center development, energy development, commercial real estate, or a related field.
• Strong strategic judgment on market intelligence, portfolio construction, site viability, counterparty credibility, and prioritization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional organizations through ambiguous decisions and align technical, commercial, legal, and finance stakeholders.
• Commercial and financial fluency sufficient to connect site quality, deal terms, capital implications, schedule, and deployment risk.
• Experience building site funnels, screening frameworks, mapping or test-fit workflows, dashboards, and executive decision materials.
• Ability to work from the US office three days per week
• Authorization to work in the country where the job is located

Responsibilities

• Own the site-selection strategy across priority geographies, including market maps, pipeline segmentation, source refreshes, live-location tracking, and portfolio prioritization
• Convene Power, Land, Development, Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Community, Commercial, Legal, and Finance partners to define the shared rubric for a high-quality site
• Translate the rubric into screening criteria across power readiness, land control, timing, scale, cost, community risk, environmental constraints, AHJ path, budget, schedule, and counterparty credibility
• Orchestrate Commercial, Legal, Finance, Power, and Development teams to shape exclusivity, initial terms, site-control strategy, funding assumptions, and the path to deployment
• Build deployment plans for top candidates identifying capacity, sequencing, capital implications, critical-path approvals, risks, owners, and stage-gate decisions
• Lead conceptual site planning and test-fit screening using boundaries, map layers, buildings, substations, roads, parking, laydown, stormwater, utility corridors, acreage, and estimated load
• Maintain a single decision-support view of pipeline stage, site health, power readiness, finance review, maps, project evidence, outstanding source data, owners, deadlines, and escalations
• Present executive-ready advance, defer, or stop recommendations with clear trade-offs, resource asks, and next steps
• Hand qualified sites to the Development Lead with a complete screening record

Skills

Site Selection

Cross-Functional Leadership

Commercial Fluency

Financial Fluency

Dashboard Development

Test-Fit Screening

Tools

Mapping Software

Dashboards

Decision Support Tools

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior site selection leader to own geographies, develop screening criteria, and coordinate cross-functional teams across Power, Land, Development, Engineering, Environmental, and Finance to prioritize sites.

You will translate complex criteria into actionable screening workflows, build deployment plans, and present strategic recommendations to executives for deployment decisions.