Vice President, Solutions Engineer, North America

Ada Infrastructure is a global data center business committed to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. As part of the digital infrastructure platform of Ares Management Corporation (NYSE:

ARES), a leading alternative investment manager, Ada Infrastructure is positioned to be a leader in reliable, safe, secure, and sustainable digital infrastructure. With eight in-flight campuses across Japan, the UK, and Brazil, we have over 850 MW of power currently available and more than 1,500 MW in our global pipeline. To learn more about Ada Infrastructure, visit  or to learn more about Ares Management visit

Ada Infrastructure is part of the digital infrastructure platform of Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across credit, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure asset classes. We are a global data center business grounded in sustainability, safety, and security, and we are executing on our mission to lead the world in sustainable digital infrastructure that drives customer success and social benefit.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to join a deeply experienced and high‑performing team, with the chance to directly impact and contribute to Ada’s global commercial growth and customer engagement strategy. Our hand‑picked team combines industry‑wide experience, in‑country expertise, unmatched customer relationships, and industry intelligence.

We are a lean team of datacenter infrastructure experts developing a global datacenter program that meets the evolving needs of our customers, at scale and in a sustainable way. We are committed to listening, collaborating cross‑functionally, and partnering to drive efficient and effective solutions that achieve our business objectives. We provide global leadership and direction that enables our regional teams to design and deliver scalable future‑ready solutions to successfully support our customers.

As the North America Solutions Engineer, you will serve as Ada’s technical authority in customer engagements—translating hyperscaler, AI, and neo‑cloud requirements into credible, scalable, and financeable infrastructure solutions. You bring a holistic knowledge of data center systems and commercial judgment to balance speed‑to‑market, performance, capital efficiency, and execution risk while avoiding over‑engineering. You will lead presales technical strategy, shape customer‑facing solution concepts, and ensure alignment between customer requirements and Ada’s platform standards.

• Act as the primary technical lead in presales engagements with hyperscale cloud providers, AI platform companies, and neo‑cloud operators.
• Partner with Sales to shape pursuit strategy, solution positioning, and deal structure for large‑scale, multi‑MW transactions.
• Lead technical discovery and solution definition with customer stakeholders across infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, AI platform teams, and executive leadership.
• Translate workload requirements (density, cooling, resiliency, deployment speed, expansion) into clear technical assumptions that can be priced, underwritten, contracted, and delivered.
• Support RFPs/RFIs and complex negotiations by developing technical responses, option sets, and risk‑aware recommendations.
• Enable Commercial teams with repeatable solution frameworks, competitive differentiation, and consistent “what we will/won’t do” technical guardrails.
• Build and maintain a database for customer responses to drive higher consistency, faster turnaround, and quality in responses.
• Coordinate cross‑functionally with Development, Power, Delivery, Operations, and Finance to validate feasibility, constructability, schedule, and execution risk during pursuits.
• Leverage internal Design & Innovation expertise to translate Ada future‑ready design and standards into customer‑specific infrastructure solutions addressing high‑density power, advanced cooling, resiliency, and rapid scalability.
• Partner with Design & Innovation to define and maintain reference…