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Senior Data Center Acquisition & Energy Manager

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Job Summary

Drive AMD’s data center and energy sourcing growth by leading complex site acquisition efforts across strategy, diligence, negotiation, and financial structuring. Partner with data center providers, neo-clouds, CSPs, and utilities to accelerate development and deployment aligned to AMD’s AI growth strategy. Conduct market scans and early due diligence, maintain opportunity tracking and reporting, prepare gate materials, and support executive briefings while coordinating readiness-phase progress.

Location: Santa Clara

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Energy & Utilities Operations

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead complex data center acquisition efforts spanning data centers, energy, power, site selection, permitting, real estate, procurement, development, and commercial sourcing initiatives.
•Conduct market scans, lead qualification, and preliminary assessments (power availability, site readiness, economics) during prospecting and early due diligence.
•Maintain the opportunity tracker/dashboard, update metrics (e.g., aging, conversion rates, No-Go dispositions), and generate weekly/phase reports.
•Prepare supporting materials for gates (ROFR docs, Go/No-Go packages, selection criteria slides, site readiness filters).
•Travel domestically and internationally as needed (2-5%+) to maintain partner relationships and manage project progress.

Travel: Low travel

Key Requirements

•5-10+ years of experience in data center site selection, energy markets, infrastructure development, commercial real estate, or related fields.
•Significant experience leading complex data centers, energy, power, site selection, permitting, real estate, procurement, development, and commercial sourcing initiatives.
•Strong understanding of data center markets, gas and grid energy markets, data center operators, site selection, lease structures, infrastructure delivery, and mission-critical environments.
•Excellent ability to diligence power availability, interconnection queue position, substation proximity, and deliverability.
•Experience with energy procurement strategies (gas + grid) and power purchase agreement structures applied to data center site selection.

Experience:5-10 yearsData centerEnergyInfrastructure developmentCommercial real estate

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationCollaborationSolution-orientedResults-drivenOrganizationalPresentation

Tech Stack:ExcelPower BITableauPowerPoint

Company Brief

AMD

Designs and produces semiconductor products including CPUs, GPUs, and adaptive SoCs for consumer, enterprise, and embedded markets, competing across PCs, data centers, and gaming industries.

Industry: Electronics Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States

Founded: 1969

Glassdoor: 3.9

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