Senior Director, Energy Strategy

QTS Data Centers•Ashburn, VA

About The Position

Lead cross‑functional development and execution of energy strategy initiatives that enable business growth, improve power readiness, and support market expansion. Drive strategic planning rhythms and operating mechanisms that connect energy constraints and opportunities to development pacing, investment decisions, and long‑range plans. Develop and implement scalable governance frameworks (standards, decision gates, escalation paths) to improve consistency, speed, and accountability across energy‑related decisions. Build and maintain executive‑ready dashboards and performance measurement tools to transparently track power readiness, risk exposure, key milestones, and business impacts. Identify and drive improvements to internal processes that reduce friction, improve cross‑functional coordination, and enable repeatable execution at scale. Partner with leaders across the business to translate energy market dynamics, utility readiness, and risk signals into clear recommendations and tradeoffs for senior decision‑makers. Support business growth by helping teams evaluate power‑related options, sequencing decisions, and mitigation plans that protect schedule, cost, and customer commitments. Lead working teams through ambiguity by establishing clarity on goals, roles, timelines, dependencies, and success metrics for energy strategy deliverables. Influence and align stakeholders through strong executive communication, ensuring complex energy topics are presented in business terms that enable action Other duties as assigned. See specific position description.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
10 or more years’ professional experience that includes leading cross‑functional teams, strategic planning, and driving business growth.
Experience operating in or alongside energy, infrastructure, utilities, large capital programs, strategy, or similarly complex environments.
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive outcomes through matrixed stakeholder groups.
Strong strategic planning capability, including the ability to define a roadmap, translate strategy into execution, and establish operating rhythms that sustain momentum.
Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex topics, align stakeholders, and drive decisions.
High ownership mindset, strong work ethic, and ability to maintain performance over sustained periods of change and workload.
Ability to build scalable frameworks (standards, gates, metrics) that improve clarity, predictability, and performance.
Demonstrated business acumen and financial rigor to evaluate tradeoffs, risks, and investment implications; able to communicate recommendations clearly to senior leaders.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.
Experience building governance models, business operating mechanisms, or standardized playbooks that scale.
Familiarity with energy markets, utility engagement processes, infrastructure development lifecycles, or sustainability/ESG strategy (as applicable to the scope).
Strong analytical capability including KPI design, reporting cadence creation, and decision‑support storytelling.

Responsibilities

Lead cross‑functional development and execution of energy strategy initiatives that enable business growth, improve power readiness, and support market expansion.
Drive strategic planning rhythms and operating mechanisms that connect energy constraints and opportunities to development pacing, investment decisions, and long‑range plans.
Develop and implement scalable governance frameworks (standards, decision gates, escalation paths) to improve consistency, speed, and accountability across energy‑related decisions.
Build and maintain executive‑ready dashboards and performance measurement tools to transparently track power readiness, risk exposure, key milestones, and business impacts.
Identify and drive improvements to internal processes that reduce friction, improve cross‑functional coordination, and enable repeatable execution at scale.
Partner with leaders across the business to translate energy market dynamics, utility readiness, and risk signals into clear recommendations and tradeoffs for senior decision‑makers.
Support business growth by helping teams evaluate power‑related options, sequencing decisions, and mitigation plans that protect schedule, cost, and customer commitments.
Lead working teams through ambiguity by establishing clarity on goals, roles, timelines, dependencies, and success metrics for energy strategy deliverables.
Influence and align stakeholders through strong executive communication, ensuring complex energy topics are presented in business terms that enable action.