Director, Network Site Investments

Meta•Menlo Park, CA

1d•$244,000 - $313,000

About The Position

Network Site Investments secures and delivers the physical foundation for Meta’s network. The team evaluates markets, selects sites, partners with third-party data center providers, and manages supplier, developer, operator, and landlord relationships to turn investment decisions into operational capacity. The global remit spans established and emerging markets, where long procurement lead times, constrained supply, and multi-year commitments require disciplined investment and delivery decisions. The Director leads global investment strategy and end-to-end delivery for two connected portfolios: edge sites that place capacity close to users, and colocation midpoint facilities that aggregate and carry traffic between regions. The role translates demand forecasts into a multi-year pipeline of markets, sites, and capital commitments, and leads execution from market entry and site selection through commercial agreements, design integration, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and handoff. The Director is accountable for delivery against schedule, budget, quality, reliability, and capacity objectives. The midpoint portfolio increasingly requires greenfield development rather than leasing existing facilities. The Director works with external capital investors and third-party data center partners on land identification, utility and power procurement, developer and partner selection, build-to-suit structuring, and delivery oversight. In partnership with engineering, compute, deployment, and operations teams, the role ensures facilities meet power, cooling, connectivity, and readiness requirements for timely deployment. The Director leads and develops a globally distributed organization of site investment and delivery managers, including program and project leaders. The role builds leadership depth and regional coverage, sets performance expectations, and establishes operating discipline for managing a complex portfolio. It also partners with Network Planning, Capacity Planning, Backbone Planning, Sourcing, Legal, Finance, Tax, Policy, Energy, Data Center Site Selection, and design and operations teams to align investment decisions with technical requirements and business commitments.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Real Estate, Economics, Engineering, Public Policy, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years of experience developing and executing infrastructure asset, site investment, or large-scale data center delivery programs, including experience across a global portfolio.
8+ years of experience leading and developing teams, including managing managers and geographically distributed teams.
Experience negotiating and closing colocation, space and power, land, real estate, build-to-suit, or comparable commercial infrastructure agreements.
Experience with greenfield infrastructure development, including site selection, utility and power procurement, developer engagement, and development or build-to-suit agreements.
Experience leading complex infrastructure delivery programs from planning and design coordination through construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and handoff.
Experience managing program budgets, integrated schedules, delivery risks, quality, and external provider performance.
Experience leading multidisciplinary programs with engineering, legal, finance, sourcing, deployment, and operations stakeholders, and communicating investment and delivery decisions to senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience with industrial-scale site selection, real estate evaluation and acquisition, development and construction, utility agreements, energy procurement, permitting, and financial modeling.
Understanding of critical facility systems, including switchgear, generators, cooling, structured cabling, integrated testing, and commissioning.
Working knowledge of backbone and edge architectures, points of presence, and interconnection, and how network requirements influence site selection and delivery.
Experience in economic development policy, infrastructure development, or public-private infrastructure financing.
Experience in the carrier-neutral data center and interconnection facility market, including operator pricing for space, power, and cross-connects.
Experience delivering greenfield data center or large-scale network facilities in multiple countries, including partner-led and build-to-suit structures.
Experience operating in emerging markets across EMEA, APAC, LATAM, MENA, or Sub-Saharan Africa, including regulatory, entity, and in-country partner considerations.
Experience with agreement drafting and redlining, executive presentations, provider performance improvement, and portfolio-level investment governance.
Experience preparing facilities for high-density GPU clusters or hyperscale AI compute environments, including power and cooling requirements, tenant fit-out, systems integration, and deployment readiness.
Experience managing long procurement lead times and constrained supply, making sequencing decisions with incomplete information, and recovering at-risk delivery programs.

Responsibilities

Own the global multi-year investment strategy and pipeline for edge sites and colocation midpoints, translating network and capacity demand forecasts into a sequenced plan of markets, sites, and capital commitments; validate demand signals and identify physical constraints.
Lead greenfield midpoint development, including market and land identification, utility and power procurement, developer and partner selection, build-to-suit structuring, and oversight from initial investment through delivery.
Negotiate and execute colocation, space and power, land, build-to-suit, development, and interconnection agreements; govern the contract lifecycle through drafting, redlining, execution, performance management, renewal, expansion, escalation, and exit.
Build and defend investment cases using total cost of ownership, cost per kW, lease-versus-build analysis, and capital and operating plans; own portfolio and project budgets, allocate resources, and make trade-offs among cost, capacity, schedule, and risk.
Drive entry into new markets with Legal, Tax, Policy, and Energy partners, addressing entity structure, regulatory requirements, permitting, power availability, and in-country partner considerations.
Lead end-to-end delivery across planning, design integration, construction, tenant fit-out, commissioning, operational readiness, and handoff; hold internal teams and external partners accountable for schedule, budget, quality, reliability, and capacity objectives.
Oversee integrated program and project schedules, dependencies, resource plans, and readiness milestones with colocation providers and internal infrastructure, network, compute, deployment, and operations teams, including readiness for large-scale GPU and AI infrastructure deployment.
Coordinate design and deployment requirements with engineering teams and providers; oversee integration of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems to align facility delivery and tenant fit-out with approved designs, specifications, and capacity requirements.
Support and partner with engineering and network stakeholders on strategic site reviews and site walks to assess execution, coordination, quality, and readiness against approved specifications, industry standards, and operational requirements.
Review and maintain commissioning and acceptance records, handoff materials, and problem-solving documentation.
Maintain a portfolio-wide view of investment, construction, integration, and readiness risks; address risk-identification gaps, drive mitigation and recovery plans, and communicate impacts on capacity availability, deployment schedules, and business commitments to executive leadership.
Lead, hire, coach, and develop a globally distributed team and its managers; set priorities, delegate effectively, align resources with business needs, and build succession depth and regional coverage.
Drive performance management, tailored feedback, and development planning; partner with HR on hiring, promotion, and talent strategy, identify skill gaps, and create opportunities for teams to build expertise and share knowledge.
Serve as the senior relationship owner and escalation point for colocation providers, developers, strategic suppliers, and landlords; oversee vendor and contractor selection, contract compliance, and delivery performance, resolving high-impact commercial and execution issues.
Build cross-functional partnerships and empower teams to resolve barriers across investment, engineering, construction, deployment, and operations; incorporate varied perspectives to align stakeholders on priorities, responsibilities, and outcomes.
Represent the global portfolio to senior leadership and external partners, securing investment approval, funding, and alignment on sequencing and major trade-offs.
Establish operating cadences, metrics, provider evaluations, and tooling that clarify portfolio health and delivery status; improve processes and workflows, coach teams on root-cause analysis, and apply lessons learned to improve cost efficiency, quality, and scalable delivery.