Sustainable Design Lead

THE COMPANY: 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.

The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION: STACK Americas is hiring a Director, Sustainability embedded within the Innovation & Engineering (I&E) organization. This is an execution-focused role responsible for translating STACK’s corporate sustainability commitments into Sustainable Design and Construction Standards as well as managing the project-by-project implementation of those standards.

In parallel, this role maintains a structured operating cadence with STACK’s Global Sustainability leadership, partnering closely on Net Zero roadmap implementation, ensuring Americas execution is consistent, auditable, scalable, and executed in alignment with global Net Zero expectations, target-setting, governance decisions, and reporting needs.

The role will run the “delivery engine” for data center design and equipment decarbonization, working closely with internal and external partners to achieve STACK’s aggressive Scope 3 embodied carbon reduction targets.

This is a highly cross-functional role working day-to-day with sustainability, construction, design and engineering, procurement, supply chain, external architects and engineers, general contractors and subcontractors, sustainability consultants/advisors, tenants, and relevant industry groups and consortiums.

• Sustainable Design & Construction Standards Advancement & Implementation Embed project sustainability requirements into STACK-developed Basis of Design documents, specification packages, AEC onboarding and contracting materials, and internal design and construction workflows. Manage the implementation of STACK and tenant sustainable design and construction standards on all active design and construction projects. Work with internal and external pre-construction and construction teams to track the cost of sustainable design and construction standards implementation to support cost-of-carbon reduction tradeoff decisions and reduction in water use.
  
  Maintain a closeout process that ensures project sustainability compliance is memorialized for lessons learned, future standards advancement, and incorporation into corporate sustainability reporting.
• Own the end-to-end Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) implementation workflow across all in-flight projects, including consultant onboarding, SOW alignment, schedule management, and deliverable quality control. Translate LCA results into usable insights for project teams, highlighting Net Zero alignment and recommended actions to advance data center decarbonization. Work with I&E leadership to develop a clear decision-making process for sustainable initiatives in new projects, including integration into the plan of record and budget assumptions.
• Design & Construction Innovation Evaluate and advance next-generation sustainable design strategies and products. Work directly with third party design firms who are contracted to provide project design documents to ensure sustainability initiatives are considered and incorporated as part of the overall project design strategy. Develop and manage appropriate pilot processes, including evaluation / success metrics, appropriate pilot design /…