Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager

Meta•San Francisco, CA

3d•$170,000 - $238,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking a Data Center Strategy & Planning Manager to join the Strategic Planning team within its Data Center organization. The role contributes to Meta’s global data center roadmap, end-to-end infrastructure scaling strategies, and plans to improve infrastructure efficiency. It is accountable for investment decisions involving billions of dollars and for scaling the data center footprint efficiently to meet product and service needs. The manager will develop and lead transformational strategic initiatives and capacity programs from inception through implementation, evaluate trade-offs, and present recommendations to executive leadership. This is an individual-contributor role that combines hands-on, detailed work with big-picture thinking, project management of complex initiatives, and influence across partner teams. The role works cross-functionally with data center capacity stakeholders, including capacity engineering, network engineering, construction, site selection, site and facility operations, network, and finance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience.
10 or more years of experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, or Hardware, with a background in strategy, capacity planning, supply chain optimization, or technology strategy consulting.
Experience distilling varied data points into actionable insights and recommendations, separating signal from noise for executive communication and decision-making.
Business acumen and ability to synthesize incomplete information into structured analyses, form and refine hypotheses, and develop actionable analyses and recommendations.
Problem-solving and strategy skills, including identifying broad opportunities and framing complex or ambiguous problems.
Experience completing multiple cloud, infrastructure, and hardware efficiency or optimization projects.
Technical experience in infrastructure, hardware, or similar designs.
Experience collaborating and working with internal and external organizations and individuals.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Master’s degree in a relevant field.
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.

Responsibilities

Use technical experience and expertise to identify and build large transformational programs and initiatives across Infrastructure that efficiently scale Meta’s data center footprint.
Develop data center planning strategies that improve reliability and cost and operational efficiency, including reducing deployment times, improving data center power utilization, and optimizing service placement.
Optimize network, hardware, and data center infrastructure footprints to drive efficiency.
Develop detailed project evaluation plans for data center plan evolution and drive projects to closure.
Apply quantitative techniques and develop decision scenarios and trade-offs to guide multi-billion-dollar infrastructure decisions at the highest levels of the organization.
Own communications for data center planning decisions, including executive-level and detailed project briefs and status updates.
Use technical judgment to drive project evaluations, technology reviews, and proposals and build consensus.