Project Development Manager- Data Centers

Accountabilities

• • Lead the development of AI infrastructure and data center projects from executed agreement through construction readiness, ensuring that scope, schedule, budget, and development requirements remain aligned.
  • Develop and manage integrated development roadmaps, project schedules, budgets, milestones, assumptions, and pre-construction risk registers.
  • Coordinate permitting, entitlement activities, utility planning, infrastructure requirements, and owner obligations throughout the pre-construction lifecycle.
  • Coordinate infrastructure planning for electrical service, substations, fiber, water, sewer, stormwater, transportation access, and other critical site requirements.
  • Partner with utility providers, municipalities, engineering teams, consultants, and development partners to validate executable development plans and resolve project constraints.
  • Ensure infrastructure assumptions and development requirements are fully reflected in project budgets, schedules, and risk assessments.
  • Lead regular development reviews and executive readiness meetings, providing clear status updates and recommending Go / No-Go decisions at key development milestones.
  • Establish and maintain development readiness criteria, project controls, documentation standards, and handoff requirements for construction delivery.
  • Verify that permits, utility agreements, infrastructure plans, owner deliverables, and development obligations are complete before projects are transferred to the Delivery organization.
  • Identify, track, and resolve development risks early to minimize their impact on construction schedules, budgets, and execution.
  • Serve as the primary development interface across site selection, technical due diligence, engineering, energy, finance, legal, and delivery functions.
  • Coordinate architects, civil engineers, environmental consultants, surveyors, permitting specialists, and other external partners throughout the development process.
  • Align internal stakeholders and external consultants to prevent scope, schedule, and cost drift.
  • Contribute to the creation of repeatable development standards, governance processes, readiness frameworks, and operating practices as the infrastructure portfolio scales.

  Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in data center development, industrial development, infrastructure development, land development, or other mission-critical projects.
  • Demonstrated experience managing permitting, entitlement, utility coordination, consultant management, and development planning activities.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure development, owner budgeting, development scheduling, risk management, and pre-construction planning.
  • Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across engineering, utilities, design, legal, construction, and other project functions.
  • Proven ability to independently lead complex infrastructure developments while operating effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, milestones, budgets, and risks simultaneously.
  • Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to align diverse internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong relationship-building skills when working with utilities, municipalities, consultants, engineering teams, and development partners.
  • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Experience supporting hyperscale data center or AI infrastructure development is preferred.
  • Experience with utility coordination, entitlement strategy, infrastructure planning, and owner's representation is an advantage.
  • Experience with self-development or joint venture delivery models is a plus.
  • Professional Engineer (PE), PMP, or similar professional certification is preferred.
  • Comfortable building processes, governance structures, and project controls where established frameworks do not yet exist.
  • Strong ownership mindset, sound judgment, and ability to identify and address project risks proactively.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation.
  • Career growth and continuous learning opportunities.
  • Flexibility and meaningful ownership over projects and responsibilities.
  • Collaborative and innovative international working environment.
  • Opportunity to work on large-scale, impactful AI infrastructure projects.
  • Exposure to complex data center and mission-critical development programs.
  • Opportunity to help shape development standards, governance frameworks, and operating processes for a growing infrastructure portfolio.
  • International team environment with opportunities to collaborate across multiple regions and disciplines.
  • Opportunity to contribute to the physical infrastructure supporting the continued growth of the global AI economy.