Director, Asset Management

New York, NY

The Director, Hyperscale Leasing & Development serves as the business lead for assigned hyperscale development projects, with responsibility for lease negotiation, deal structuring, and development oversight. This role focuses on driving successful commercial outcomes across the full lifecycle of complex hyperscale developments.

Partnering closely with leasing, development, acquisitions, capital markets, and legal teams, this individual ensures projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and aligned with commercial and ownership objectives. This role does not perform construction or project management, but provides leadership, coordination, and accountability from a business and asset management perspective.

• Lead or support lease negotiations with hyperscale customers
• Structure commercial terms, including phasing, delivery schedules, and development commitments
• Partner with leasing and customer teams to advance transactions and develop creative deal solutions
• Serve as the business lead for assigned hyperscale development projects from acquisition through delivery
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to align commercial agreements with development execution
• Oversee development progress relative to schedule, budget, and underwriting assumptions
• Identify risks and drive issue resolution related to permitting, utilities, infrastructure, and customer requirements
• Support development budgeting, scope changes, and phasing decisions
• Drive value creation and performance across assigned hyperscale opportunities

• 10+ years of experience across one or more of the following areas:
  • Data center development
  • Commercial real estate development
  • Asset management
  • Industrial or infrastructure development
• Experience overseeing large-scale, complex development projects
• Experience with lease negotiations and deal structuring preferred
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and complex transactions
• Ability to operate effectively across leasing, development, and investment functions

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. Platform DIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

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