Director of Site Selection

The role

The Director of Site Selection will manage a team to source multiple gigawatts of US powered land, powered shell, and turnkey opportunities. This person will run site diligence, negotiate complex deals, and oversee capacity planning and forecasting.

What you will do

• Manage the team and scale the program for sourcing US powered land, powered shell, and turnkey opportunities.
• Run diligence on candidate sites including utility, behind-the-meter power, security, availability, and buildability.
• Negotiate leases, PSAs, and JV structures with landowners, developers, data center operators, and private equity firms.
• Test deal financeability and multi-year cost with Finance and executive leadership.
• Direct vendor due diligence and on-site audits with specialist engineers.
• Work with the DC Design team to ensure sites meet technical requirements.
• Own capacity planning and forecasting across all clients and regions.
• Build and mentor the site selection team as it scales.

Required qualifications

• Led hyperscale data center site acquisitions from first look to signature.
• Personally negotiated powered land and site development deals.
• Closed large, multi-party real estate deals across leases, PSAs, and JVs while running a multi-site portfolio.
• Ability to walk away from sites based on title, geotechnical report, permitting path, or utility study.
• Built relationships with brokers, landowners, and developers to receive sites before they reach the market.
• Built site selection processes and systems that scale with deal volume and team size.
• Provide executive leadership, finance, design, and construction input to site decisions.
• Travel of 20% or more.

Nice to have

• Experience with behind-the-meter and bridge-to-utility power solutions
• Experience with JV structuring and project finance
• Experience with large-load interconnection and utility tariff processes

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them.