Vice President, Electrical Engineering

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need.

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The Vice President, Electrical Engineering is responsible for the leadership, technical direction, organizational development, and execution of the Electrical Engineering function. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, this role provides dedicated leadership for the Electrical Engineering organization while partnering closely with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, Controls, Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, and other key stakeholders. The VP, Electrical Engineering serves as the senior electrical engineering leader responsible for ensuring electrical infrastructure designs are safe, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, constructible, and aligned with company standards, client requirements, project objectives, and operational needs.

This position combines strong technical leadership with organizational and people leadership. The VP is accountable not only for electrical engineering quality and technical decisions, but also for building and developing the Electrical Engineering team, managing resources and priorities, driving standardization, supporting project delivery, and establishing clear accountability across the electrical discipline. The VP will also serve as a senior client-facing technical representative for Electrical Engineering and must be capable of independently leading technical discussions with clients, communicating complex engineering concepts and design decisions, understanding client requirements, and resolving technical issues while appropriately balancing client expectations with company standards, project requirements, and business objectives.

Lead the Electrical Engineering organization and provide clear accountability, direction, priorities, and expectations across the team. Manage, mentor, and develop electrical engineering leaders and individual contributors. Establish organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, and decision‑making authority appropriate to the scale and needs of the business. Develop technical and leadership capabilities within the Electrical Engineering team and establish succession plans for critical roles. Conduct resource and capacity planning based on the project pipeline, workload, and business priorities.

Identify staffing needs and lead recruiting, onboarding, development, and retention of electrical engineering talent. Establish annual objectives and performance expectations aligned with Engineering and company priorities. Build a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ownership.

Serve as the senior discipline leader for electrical engineering and provide technical direction across the project portfolio. Provide oversight of electrical infrastructure architecture, including utility interfaces, substations, medium‑and‑low‑voltage distribution, generators, UPS systems, energy storage where applicable, grounding, protection, controls interfaces, and associated critical electrical infrastructure. Provide leadership and technical guidance for major electrical design decisions, deviations,…