Director of Data Center Certification

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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📋 Description

• Build the independent certification body for AI data centers from first principles • Set and own the certification strategy and determine its scope • Lead development and publication of rigorous, adoptable certification criteria with technical experts, developers, utilities and municipalities • Design the business model, including facility-size-scaled fees, annual recertification, membership tiers and a practitioner credential • Build a financially self-sustaining certification business • Establish a digital-first certification process, remote auditor network and consistent quality assurance • Win initial developer and municipality adopters and position certification in siting, permitting and procurement decisions • Protect certification independence and resolve conflicts between commercial relationships and certification integrity • Partner with the Director of Data Center Energy Strategy • Hire and grow the certification team and auditor network • Build external relationships across hyperscalers, developers, utilities, grid operators, municipalities, regulators, standards bodies and climate funders • Work with the Foundation CEO on budget, impact, risk, grants and impact investing • Deliver the first-year strategy, Version 1 standard, business model and governance, auditor program, pilot certifications and strategy-track partnership • Travel as needed to meet developers, utilities, municipalities and the Foundation

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building a new organization, product or market from an early stage, ideally one where you had to create the demand as well as the offer • Credibility on two fronts: holding your own with data center developers and energy executives, and with municipal officials and regulators • Working fluency in energy and data center fundamentals, including power procurement, interconnection, renewables and storage, and load flexibility • Enough technical knowledge to lead technical experts and challenge their work • Commercial instinct: designing pricing and revenue models, and selling to skeptical buyers • Demonstrated leadership of a team, with a track record of hiring well • Sound judgment on independence and conflicts of interest, and willingness to hold a line under commercial pressure • Exceptional communication, including making a technical standard compelling to developers, municipalities and the public • Deep personal commitment to clean, reliable power for the AI era • Experience with standards, certification, ratings or accreditation strongly preferred • Direct experience in data centers, AI infrastructure, utilities or energy development strongly preferred • Experience working with municipalities, permitting authorities or state energy regulators strongly preferred • Experience leading a nonprofit or membership organization, or operating within or alongside a philanthropic funder strongly preferred • An engineering or technical background, or an advanced degree in a relevant discipline, strongly preferred • An existing network across hyperscalers, developers, utilities and climate investors strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Benefits • A founding leadership role building a new institution with seed backing from the Sijbrandij Foundation • Direct reporting line to the Foundation CEO and a close working partnership with the strategy track • Fully remote within the US

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