Director of Data Center Certification
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JobgetherData center energy
Fully remote position within the United StatesFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Stakeholder management
Requirements
- Experience building a new organization, product, or market from an early stage, ideally creating demand as well as developing the offering.
- Credibility with data center developers, energy executives, municipal officials, and regulators.
- Working knowledge of data center and energy fundamentals, including power procurement, grid interconnection, renewable energy, energy storage, and load flexibility.
- Ability to lead technical experts, assess their work, and translate technical concepts into practical certification requirements.
- Commercial expertise in pricing and revenue models, sustainable business strategies, and selling to sophisticated buyers.
- Demonstrated experience recruiting, developing, and managing effective teams.
- Sound judgment regarding organizational independence and conflicts of interest, including protecting certification integrity under commercial pressure.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills for explaining technical standards to industry leaders, public officials, and broader audiences.
- Commitment to advancing clean, reliable energy for AI infrastructure.
- Preferred: experience in standards development, certification, ratings, or accreditation, such as LEED, ENERGY STAR, ISO, or ESG frameworks.
- Preferred: direct experience in data centers, AI infrastructure, utilities, or energy development, or work with municipalities, permitting authorities, or state energy regulators.
- Preferred: nonprofit or membership organization leadership, work with philanthropic funders, an engineering or technical background, or an advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the certification organization's strategy, including its three-year vision, scope, and priorities.
- Develop an independent certification standard with technical experts, data center developers, utilities, and municipalities.
- Design a sustainable business model with facility-size-based fees, annual recertification, membership tiers, and professional credentials.
- Build a digital-first operating model with certification processes, a remote auditor network, and quality assurance.
- Secure early adopters and position certification as a reference for data center siting, permitting, and procurement.
- Safeguard the organization's independence and manage potential conflicts of interest.
- Recruit and lead the certification team, develop the auditor network, and scale the organization as adoption grows.
- Build relationships across data centers, utilities, grid operators, municipalities, regulators, standards organizations, and climate funders.
- Partner with the Foundation's CEO on budgeting, impact measurement, risk management, and deployment of surplus revenue.
- Deliver first-year milestones, including the strategy, first standard, governance and fee structures, trained auditors, and pilot certifications.
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