Data Center Site Acquisition Manager (LATAM) - San Jose

Description

To support the fast growth and manage the massive content on the platform, TikTok'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 experience 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.
We are looking for an experienced data center acquisition expert to lead the initiative, your responsibilities will include:
- Work with stakeholders to understand capacity needs and site requirements, identify and select pipelines for potential capacity growth opportunities
- Lead cross-functional teams to evaluate, select, negotiate and recommend leases for approval
- Lead cost analysis and collaborate the due-diligence process to qualify the site which meets TikTok's business needs, present deal summaries and lease abstracts to key decision-makers for financial approval
- Drive large cross-functional teams, including government relationships, compliance, legal, finance and engineering partners to complete the full evaluation and push deals to execution.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or other relevant fields; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
- Organizational, coordination and project management with proven experience leading complex initiatives to successful completion in a timely manner
- Proof track of record to lead significant data center deals to decision and execution. Deep insights in land development, various infra ownership and full life cycle management of infra deals.
- Strong analytical, communication and negotiation skills. Executive communication and engagement experience.
- High proficiency in Portuguese is required to communicate with stakeholders in Brazil

Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years of relevant professional experience in tech infrastructure procurement, supply chain management, construction or facility management.
- Direct experience working in the LATAM market is a plus.