Data Center Facility Operations Area Director

Meta•Menlo Park, CA

3d•$272,000 - $318,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking a Senior Director to lead Data Center Facility Operations across a multi-area region, including operating campuses and future sites. The role owns the region’s multi-year operating strategy, leads and develops a recursive organization of managers and directors, and is accountable for outcomes reported to and relied upon by senior company leadership. It also creates capabilities, programs, and operating models that improve Facility Operations fleet-wide, shaping the discipline’s operating model and designing the organization needed to execute Meta’s infrastructure priorities. The Area Director has end-to-end operational accountability across multiple geographic areas, including operational readiness for future sites. The position oversees regional OpEx and CapEx portfolios, supplier and contract strategy, reliability and KPI frameworks, major incident response, construction turnover, safety and EHS culture, and organizational health. The role partners with senior leaders and peers across the company, represents Facility Operations externally where appropriate, and drives adoption of automation, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches to improve reliability, efficiency, and staffing leverage. Travel is approximately 25–50%.

Requirements

15+ years of experience building, developing, and leading high-performance technical or operations organizations, including 8+ years leading through other managers or directors in a recursive organization.
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 or 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%.

Nice To Haves

Four-year degree in Engineering, or an advanced degree in engineering or business.
Experience leading organizations of 150+ people across multiple sites.
Experience scaling operations organizations through significant capacity growth or new site launches.
Experience in diverse industries such as electrical generation, electrical distribution, cooling technologies, or fire suppression systems.
Demonstrated ownership of environmental, health, and safety programs at a regional or enterprise level.
Experience deploying automation, data, or AI-enabled tooling to improve operational outcomes at scale.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end leadership and operational accountability for Facility Operations across multiple geographic areas, including current campuses and readiness for future sites.
Define and own the region’s multi-year facility operations strategy, align senior company leadership behind it, and translate infrastructure and capacity roadmaps into regional operating plans.
Hire, coach, and develop regional leaders; build leadership succession depth for critical roles.
Implement organization-wide processes, standards, tools, and monitoring systems, and create new global standards where gaps exist.
Partner with peer leaders to establish globally consistent operating models and hold the region accountable for adopting them.
Own the region’s OpEx and CapEx portfolio and major supplier and contract strategy, influencing multi-year costs and meeting efficiency targets.
Establish and use KPI and reliability frameworks for mission-critical facility operations, holding regional leaders accountable and driving fleet-level improvement.
Serve as senior escalation and decision authority for major incidents, equipment failures, and systemic reliability risks; ensure root-cause analysis and fleet-wide corrective actions.
Partner with senior leaders across functions to resolve competing priorities and regional or global tradeoffs.
Own operational readiness and construction turnover outcomes, ensuring new capacity comes online safely, on schedule, and fully staffed.
Champion safety and EHS culture across the region.
Represent Meta Facility Operations externally where appropriate, including at industry forums and in supplier and utility partnerships.
Drive adoption of automation, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches that improve reliability, efficiency, and staffing leverage.
Own organizational health measures, including Meta’s Pulse indicator, attrition, upward feedback, and manager effectiveness; diagnose and resolve complex health issues.
Communicate the operational excellence vision and roadmap and drive its adoption across the region, stakeholders, and the broader Infra Data Center organization.
Drive operational contributions to company initiatives and campaigns, including recruiting, leadership development, site initiatives, and industry engagement.
Hold the organization and cross-functional partners accountable to the Code of Conduct, regulatory and permitting obligations, and company policy; foster a culture where people can safely raise concerns.