Data Center Site Acquisition Manager (Americas) - Ashburn

Responsibilities

To support the fast growth and manage the massive content on the platform, ByteDance's infrastructure team is building hyper-scale data centers globally that host hundreds of thousands of servers. We are looking for a Site Acquisition Manager who will be responsible for leasing and acquiring datacenter capacity primarily in the Americas market. This role will drive communication with market to identify pipelines and develop significant hyperscale deal to enable global growth of our products. Additional responsibilities include performing analytics and conducting market research on targeted metros and regions, new countries, metros, and target locations, developing acquisition opportunities, and commercial terms with landlords and stakeholders, making executive proposals on acquisitions, and constructing and negotiating leases and related real estate agreements. The Site Acquisition Manager will work closely with our engineering, capacity planning, and operations teams as well as with various global teams and leaders.

We are looking for an experienced data center acquisition expert to lead the initiative, your responsibilities will include:

Responsibilities:
- Work with stakeholders to understand capacity needs and site requirements in assigned metros/regions. Conduct data center market analysis, lead site acquisition strategy and drive executive decisions accordingly.
- Engage and bring qualified suppliers onboard and drive the end to end site acquisition / procurement process, including due-diligence and recommend lease deals.
- Manage existing lease portfolio and continuously drive a long term acquisition strategy for both cost efficiency and quality assurance.
- Work with cross-functional business partners to negotiate and prepare executable contracts.