Director of Data Center Certification

📋 Description

• Define and lead the certification organization's strategy, including its three-year vision, scope
• Develop an independent certification standard in collaboration with technical experts, data center
• Ensure certification criteria are technically rigorous, credible, practical, and attractive enough
• Design a sustainable business model, including facility-size-based fees, annual recertification
• Establish a clear path to financial self-sufficiency while ensuring revenue supports the
• Build a lean, digital-first operating model, including certification processes, a remote auditor

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building a new organization, product, or market from an early stage, ideally including
• Strong credibility with both data center developers and energy executives, as well as municipal
• Working knowledge of data center and energy fundamentals, including power procurement, grid
• Ability to lead technical experts, assess their work, and translate complex technical concepts into
• Commercial expertise, including designing pricing and revenue models, developing sustainable
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including recruiting, developing, and managing effective teams.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Founding leadership opportunity to establish and shape an independent certification institution
• Seed backing from a philanthropic foundation to support the development of the initiative.
• Direct reporting relationship to the Foundation's CEO.
• Close collaboration with the leadership of the broader data center energy strategy.