Senior Manager, Public Policy

🕒 June 11

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $160k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Vantage Data Centers

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Vantage Data Centers is a company specializing in the design, development, and operation of highly flexible and scalable data centers. These data centers cater to hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises, offering state-of-the-art facilities across 5 continents and 21 markets. Vantage focuses on providing large-scale campuses that enable customers to grow steadily, with over 23 million square feet dedicated to data center space and 2. 6GW+ of power capacity. Committed to sustainability and efficiency, Vantage ensures 100% uptime with standardized designs offering predictability and performance. The company is backed by prominent investors such as DigitalBridge Group and Silver Lake, maintaining a strong financial standing and excellent customer satisfaction rates.

📋 Description

• Support the execution of a strategic public policy engagement plan to drive forward business objectives at the state, provincial, and local levels in eastern North America. • Research, identify and track current and emerging policy issues across geographies, engage internal team members to determine company’s position, priorities and risks. • Develop strategy to navigate and impact policy objectives; engage with state, provincial, and local governments to advance the company’s public policy interests. • Collaborate with Vantage’s New Site Development, Engineering, Legal, Tax, Construction, and Operations Finance, teams on key issues and workstreams, establishing a cadence of regular briefings. • Engage in pre-development processes, researching policy drivers in new markets, understanding and pursuing local tax incentives and funding programs for data center development, and with permit and zoning as necessary. • Manage contract lobbyists, association memberships, and coalition partnerships. • Draft positioning statements/documents; prepare decks and talking points for meetings, as well as briefings for executives and key internal team members. • Attend local meetings to testify/comment on Vantage’s behalf. • Participate in various chambers, associations and coalitions as a proponent of the data center industry. • Partner with marketing to develop messaging, positioning, collateral and public relations materials. • Promote Vantage’s commitment to sustainability, diversity and inclusivity; engage in the community supporting Vantage’s role as a good corporate citizen.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. • 5-7 years of hands-on experience in government relations, economic development, or community engagement in Eastern North America. • Experience learning business needs and representing those interests before government officials. • Proven creative and critical thinking, and the ability to understand complex issues and identify clear and effective action plans to resolve them is desired. • Experience working on policies related to energy, artificial intelligence, taxes, sustainability, infrastructure development. • Strong written and verbal communication to internal and external audiences including senior government officials and company executives. • A teammate that is comfortable working in a matrixed organization to drive forward business value creation is strongly preferred. • Experience handling contract lobbyists and working as an internal lobbyist for a private company is strongly preferred. • Advanced political savvy and the ability to connect with customers from all backgrounds. • Must be comfortable balancing multiple priorities with shifting timelines and objectives. • Travel required is expected to be up to 20% but may increase over time as the business evolves.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • life and AD&D • short and long-term disability coverage • paid time off • employee assistance • participation in a 401k program that includes company match • many other additional voluntary benefits