Senior Counsel, Real Estate

FluidStack
Seattle, San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 325,000 - 450,000 annuallyFunction: Real Estate & Property ManagementSkills: ["Legal judgment","Contract negotiation","Risk balancing","Legal writing","Stakeholder communication"]

Structure, draft, and negotiate real estate transactions supporting Fluidstack’s data center buildout—from purchase/sale agreements and leases to financing, tax incentives, title/insurance, zoning, easements, and restrictive covenants. Build and standardize Fluidstack’s real estate form agreements, manage local counsel, and run complex negotiations end to end while balancing legal risk with business speed. Serve as a strategic partner across cross-functional teams.

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Senior Counsel, Real Estate

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Job Summary

Structure, draft, and negotiate real estate transactions supporting Fluidstack’s data center buildout—from purchase/sale agreements and leases to financing, tax incentives, title/insurance, zoning, easements, and restrictive covenants. Build and standardize Fluidstack’s real estate form agreements, manage local counsel, and run complex negotiations end to end while balancing legal risk with business speed. Serve as a strategic partner across cross-functional teams.
Location: Seattle, San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Real Estate & Property Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Structure, draft, and negotiate real estate transactions for Fluidstack’s data center buildout, including purchase/sale agreements, build-to-suit and ground leases, financing, tax incentives, title review and insurance, zoning/land use, easements, and restrictive covenants.
  • •Create Fluidstack’s library of real estate form agreements and build the local counsel network needed in each market.
  • •Run complex negotiations end to end with sophisticated counterparties, balancing legal risk against business speed.
  • •Manage outside counsel across substantive disciplines with rigor on scope, quality, and spend.
  • •Quarterback transactions cross-functionally with site selection, development, finance, and delivery teams so deals never stall while advising business leaders as a strategic partner.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 325,000 - 450,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Hold an active license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and meet admission requirements where you will practice.
  • •Autonomously structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements as lead attorney for sophisticated counterparties.
  • •Have direct, sophisticated practice aligned to data center real estate development (land acquisition/disposition, build-to-suit and ground leases, real estate finance, zoning/land use, construction, title and insurance, etc.).
  • •Make sound, commercially pragmatic calls in ambiguous, high-stakes situations where judgment materially changes outcomes.
  • •Oversee outside counsel across multiple disciplines with rigorous standards on scope, quality, and spend.
Skills:Legal judgmentContract negotiationRisk balancingLegal writingStakeholder communication
Licenses:Active law license

Company Brief

FluidStack
Builds and deploys large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI labs, enterprises and governments, providing high-performance AI training and inference capacity and rapid data-center deployment services.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2017
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