About this role
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:
The Sr. Director, Delivery plays a critical leadership role in delivering STACK’s construction portfolio within an assigned market. Reporting to the Sr. Vice President, Construction, this role is accountable for the successful execution of multiple concurrent, large-scale data center projects within a market, ensuring they are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to STACK’s quality standards.
The Sr. Director, Delivery provides leadership and oversight across project teams, driving consistency in execution, financial performance, resource planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. This leader will serve as a senior interface between STACK leadership, customers, general contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading complex, multi-million to billion-dollar construction projects and a proven ability to lead teams and deliver multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Campus Leadership: Provide overall construction leadership for campus delivery, ensuring accountability for safety, quality, schedule, budget, and delivery commitments.
- Budget & Schedule Oversight: Oversee project budgets, forecasts, cost reporting, and schedules across the market; identify trends, risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and develop construction leaders and project teams, establishing clear expectations and fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
- Client & Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a senior point of contact with customers, general contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders, ensuring strong relationships and clear communication.
- Resource Planning: Assess project needs and allocate construction resources across the market to support successful execution and changing business priorities.
- Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional STACK teams, including Engineering, EH&S, Finance, Procurement, and Operations, to ensure alignment and delivery excellence.
- Risk & Issue Management: Maintain visibility across projects, proactively identifying and resolving risks, dependencies, and escalated issues that could impact delivery.
- Reporting: Provide senior leadership with clear updates and analysis on market performance, budgets, schedules, risks, and key decisions.
- Culture & Standards: Champion a culture of safety, quality, accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement across all projects.
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- 15+ years of progressive construction management experience, including leadership of large-scale, complex, fast-track projects; data center or mission-critical experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent construction projects within a market or region.
- Proven success managing ground-up, core and shell, utility, sitework, and fit-out projects, including $500M+ projects.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop construction leaders and high-performing project teams.
- Strong financial acumen with experience overseeing budgets, forecasts, schedules, cost controls, and risk across multiple projects.
- Strong client-facing experience with the ability to build relationships and influence customers, contractors, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
- Deep knowledge of construction management practices, contracts, scheduling, commercial management, and project controls.
- Strong executive presence, judgment, and communication skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and resolve complex issues.
- Familiarity with Procore, Bluebeam, and BIM platforms preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:
- You are an experienced construction leader who can successfully oversee multiple complex projects within a market while keeping teams focused on safety, quality, schedule, and budget.
- You know how to lead through other leaders, setting clear expectations, driving accountability, and developing strong teams.
- You anticipate risks and challenges early and are comfortable making decisions in complex, fast-moving environments.
- You are a strong communicator who builds trusted relationships with customers, contractors, internal partners, and senior leadership.
- You balance strategic thinking with strong construction and financial acumen and know when to engage directly in critical project issues.
- You are committed to continuous improvement and use lessons learned to drive better performance across the market.
THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:
- You are a strong communicator, you are persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
- You do not get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
- You are a team builder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
- You are naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.
WHY STACK?
- We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts – even a cell phone subsidy.
- We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
- Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
- We’re growing – this is a great time to join and make an impact!
STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law
Note to external agencies : We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to STACK Infrastructure, Inc. will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of STACK Infrastructure, Inc.
