Senior Manager, Data Center Permitting- Data Center Engineering

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by Soft Bank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America’s future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a Soft Bank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, Soft Bank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company’s growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States.

Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function:

SB Energy is seeking a Permitting Senior Manager dedicated to the Data Center team.

In this role, you will lead building, civil, fire and life safety, and operational permitting for SB Energy’s data center campuses and supporting facilities. You will organize complex approval workflows, establish clear responsibilities, and integrate permit schedules with phased construction, occupancy, and operational readiness across projects and jurisdictions.

This role requires strong management skills, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to hold multidisciplinary teams and consultants accountable for timely, complete deliverables. You will own the Data Center team’s permitting execution and partner with Development, Real Estate, Legal, and environmental specialists on related land-use, site-control, and environmental approvals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead building and civil permits for data centers and support facilities, including site development, grading, drainage, roads, utilities, foundations, core and shell, interiors, and coordinated trade permits.
• Establish and maintain a consolidated permit matrix identifying jurisdiction, scope, applicant, responsible owner, prerequisites, submission dates, review durations, approval milestones, conditions, and expiration dates.
• Integrate permitting activities with design and construction schedules; identify critical dependencies, required design maturity, agency review cycles, and sequencing for early works and phased permit packages.
• Lead recurring coordination meetings with clear agendas, decisions, action owners, and due dates; track commitments through closure and resolve handoff gaps between teams.
• Direct permitting consultants and coordinate architects, civil engineers, contractors, and internal stakeholders; establish scopes, resource plans, deliverable expectations, and accountability for performance.
• Manage application readiness reviews, submission logistics, fees, agency comments, and resubmittals; confirm packages contain coordinated drawings, calculations, forms, and required supporting studies.
• Lead fire and life safety permitting with design professionals, fire marshals, and building officials, including fire protection systems, fire alarm,…