Director, Core Development

THE COMPANY:
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world's most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meet or exceed the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:
At STACK, the Director, Core Development is responsible for leading infrastructure development activities, including negotiating land transactions and supporting agreements, managing diligence and permitting efforts, optimizing utility and network interconnections, working with design and construction teams, developing and managing project budgets, and participating in data center site location efforts.

The Director, Core Development is also responsible for portfolio level strategy projects and corporate priorities, including identification of new markets, network and energy procurement, and participating in product development and sales-support activities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience negotiating large, complex development deals and an ability to understand and align stakeholder interests.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead data center and infrastructure development efforts, including property diligence and permitting, site and facility design, utility interconnection, finance, and taxes and incentives and participating in location strategy and land procurement,
• Negotiate data center development transactions, including the supporting legal instruments
• Interface with internal and external partners, including finance, construction, design and engineering, sales, legal, tax, and consultative resources
• Prepare business cases and recommendations for leadership approval
• Partner with sales team to pitch build-to-suit opportunities
• Maintain strategic relationships with in-region stakeholders

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in a business or technical discipline required
• Significant prior experience (8+ years) development for data centers or other mission critical facilities
• Significant experience leading complex transactions

THE DETAILS:

• Location: Las Cruces, NM
• Travel: Domestic travel required, 25-50%
• Compensation: $200,000 - $215,000/year + 20% target bonus potential
• Benefits: Healthcare, Dental Care, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Paid Leave Programs
• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• Must pass comprehensive background screening

THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:

• You're a strong communicator, equally comfortable in the boardroom as the data center hall. You're persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
• You don't get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
• You're a teambuilder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
• You're naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

WHY STACK?

• We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts – even a cell phone subsidy.
• We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition programs.
• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• We're growing – this is a great time to join and make an impact

Application Deadline: December 5, 2025

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law
Note to external agencies:
we are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to STACK Infrastructure will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
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Job ID: 10093