Senior Director, Portfolio Management

The role

The Senior Director, Real Estate & Portfolio Strategy will lead the strategy, execution, and financial management of a global co-location, manufacturing office, and data center lease portfolio. This role aligns real estate strategy with business growth, headcount planning, and financial objectives.

What you will do

• Translate hiring forecasts and capacity plans into real estate recommendations.
• Evaluate expansion, consolidation, renewal, and exit opportunities.
• Own the master lease abstract database and track key dates and obligations.
• Lead lease review and abstracting for manufacturing office, data center, and cloud colocation agreements.
• Manage end-to-end real estate transactions including new leases, renewals, subleases, and terminations.
• Lead ongoing lease management for cloud colocation and data center leases.
• Build and maintain cash flow models, occupancy cost analyses, and rent schedules.
• Prepare business cases and executive presentations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between Workplace, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and Data Center Operations.
• Manage the relationship with the global brokerage partner.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Business, Finance, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in corporate real estate, portfolio strategy, lease administration, or commercial real estate transaction management, including experience with data center or cloud colocation
• Experience managing multiple concurrent lease transactions across multiple geographies and asset types, including office and data center/colocation.
• Strong financial acumen, including developing business cases, cash flow projections, occupancy cost analyses, and lease economics.
• Hands-on experience with lease review, abstracting, and management.
• Experience negotiating commercial lease terms in partnership with brokers and legal counsel.
• Experience leading or supporting lease and portfolio audits.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets with strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing or administering lease management software is highly desirable.
• Experience in a high-growth technology, AI, data center, or manufacturing environment.
• Experience working directly with a global brokerage firm (e.g., JLL, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield).
• Experience supporting international real estate transactions and global portfolios.
• Direct experience with hyperscaler or wholesale data center lease structures and negotiations.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. The company uses an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.