Vice President, Electrical Engineering

STACK Infrastructure•Denver, CO

18d•Remote

About The Position

The Vice President, Electrical Engineering leads the Electrical Engineering function, providing its technical direction, organizational development, and execution. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, the role leads the electrical organization and partners with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, Controls, Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, and other stakeholders. The VP ensures electrical infrastructure designs are safe, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, constructible, and aligned with company standards, client requirements, project objectives, and operational needs. This role combines technical and people leadership. The VP is accountable for engineering quality and technical decisions, building and developing the team, managing resources and priorities, driving standardization, supporting project delivery, and establishing accountability. As a senior client-facing technical representative, the VP independently leads technical discussions, communicates complex engineering concepts and design decisions, understands client requirements, and resolves issues while balancing client expectations with company standards, project requirements, and business objectives. The position is remote and requires at least 30% travel. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States and pass a comprehensive drug and background screening. The compensation range is $259,600.00–$287,600.00.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution.
Professional Engineer (PE) license.
At least 15 years of progressive electrical engineering experience, including significant experience in data center, mission-critical, utility, power, industrial, or similarly complex electrical infrastructure.
Progression into senior engineering leadership roles with responsibility for teams, technical decisions, project execution, and organizational development.
Significant experience leading and developing engineering organizations, including managers, senior engineers, and technical professionals.
Strong technical knowledge of mission-critical electrical infrastructure.
Experience with medium- and low-voltage distribution systems, utility interfaces, substations, transformers, generators, UPS systems, protection systems, grounding, and associated electrical infrastructure.
Strong understanding of electrical system reliability, redundancy, maintainability, safety, constructability, and operational requirements.
Experience developing and implementing engineering standards, specifications, design criteria, and technical governance processes.
Ability to evaluate complex technical issues and make sound decisions considering technical, commercial, schedule, and operational impacts.
Experience across the project lifecycle, including development, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
Demonstrated experience independently leading client-facing technical meetings, design reviews, technical workshops, and executive-level engineering discussions.
Ability to independently represent the company and Electrical Engineering organization with sophisticated technical clients and external stakeholders.
Strong executive communication, organizational leadership, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to communicate complex technical matters effectively to engineering teams, executive leadership, clients, and non-technical stakeholders.
Must be eligible to work in the United States.
Must pass a comprehensive drug and background screening.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Direct experience within the data center and mission-critical infrastructure industry.
Experience delivering large-scale, high-capacity electrical infrastructure programs across multiple projects or markets.
Experience with utility interconnection and large-scale power-delivery requirements.
Experience working with major electrical equipment manufacturers, engineering consultants, contractors, utilities, and commissioning organizations.
Experience supporting hyperscale or other sophisticated data center clients and translating client technical requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead the Electrical Engineering organization, setting direction, priorities, expectations, accountability, and decision-making authority.
Manage, mentor, and develop electrical engineering leaders and individual contributors; build technical and leadership capabilities and succession plans.
Plan resources and capacity against the project pipeline, identify staffing needs, and lead recruiting, onboarding, development, and retention.
Establish annual objectives and performance expectations, and foster technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ownership.
Provide senior technical direction for electrical engineering across the project portfolio, including electrical infrastructure architecture and major design decisions.
Oversee electrical systems such as utility interfaces, substations, medium- and low-voltage distribution, generators, UPS systems, energy storage where applicable, grounding, protection, and controls interfaces.
Ensure designs address reliability, redundancy, maintainability, safety, constructability, operability, cost, and schedule.
Establish technical review and approval processes and ensure engineering decisions are documented, communicated, and consistently implemented.
Provide senior technical support for complex project issues and significant field or operational challenges.
Lead client meetings, technical workshops, design reviews, and engineering alignment sessions; explain system architecture, design decisions, risks, deviations, requirements, and proposed solutions.
Evaluate client technical requirements and work with clients to resolve technical differences while maintaining alignment with company standards, project requirements, commercial commitments, and operational objectives.
Provide technical leadership during client due diligence, project development, design, construction, commissioning, and other project phases as required.
Develop client relationships and serve as a primary escalation point for significant electrical engineering matters; represent the company with external stakeholders and escalate significant risks as appropriate.
Own and maintain electrical engineering design standards, criteria, specifications, and technical requirements.
Drive standardization and repeatability while accommodating site, utility, jurisdictional, client, and project-specific requirements.
Lead evaluation and implementation of new electrical technologies, equipment, architectures, and design approaches.
Govern deviations from electrical standards and incorporate lessons learned from design, construction, commissioning, and operations into future standards and designs.
Coordinate with other Engineering disciplines to establish integrated design requirements and maintain awareness of applicable codes, regulations, standards, utility requirements, and industry practices.
Provide electrical engineering leadership throughout projects, from early development and conceptual design through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover to Operations.
Set portfolio priorities, allocate engineering resources, monitor deliverables and milestones, and ensure timely resolution of issues affecting cost, schedule, quality, reliability, or operations.
Support technical alternative evaluations, participate in design reviews and project governance, and ensure appropriate support during construction, commissioning, energization, and turnover.
Partner with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, Controls, Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Commercial, and other business functions throughout the project lifecycle.
Support Procurement with technical evaluations, equipment strategies, supplier qualification, and major electrical equipment decisions.
Work with Construction and Commissioning on constructability, installation, testing, energization, and commissioning; engage Operations on reliability, maintainability, safety, and operational requirements.
Support the SVP of Engineering in developing and executing Engineering strategy, and develop the Electrical Engineering functional strategy aligned with business growth and portfolio requirements.
Identify improvements in design efficiency, standardization, quality, cost, schedule, reliability, and engineering productivity; evaluate relevant emerging technologies and establish lessons-learned processes.
Develop engineering metrics and KPIs to measure Electrical Engineering performance and organizational effectiveness.