Vice President Construction
THE COMPANY:
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the worlds 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 meet or exceed 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 Vice President is an essential partner to both the General Manager/ Sr. Vice President Construction in driving the direction of the business supporting both strategic and tactical initiatives and solving difficult daily challenges to remove roadblocks improve communications and overall to help lead the program towards more predictable favorable and consistent outcomes in the Construction Delivery of large-scale complex data center builds. STACK is seeking a candidate with senior-level experience in start-to-finish construction of multi-billion dollar turnkey data center campuses.
To be successful in this role your essential skill will be expert problem-solving utilizing creativity understanding of the industry and how STACK operates along with a relentless approach to follow through. You will need to be a skillful internal operator and use your ability to influence others to help remove roadblocks and drive towards successful outcomes. You will be tasked with both strategic and tactical challenges and you will need to rely on exceptional communication skills both up and down the STACK hierarchy. The candidate will have senior level experience in influencing positive business outcomes in challenging situations where direct control is shared both internally and externally. As a successful Vice President you will build strong cross-group working relationships and demonstrate exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Our ideal candidate can thrive in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment where clear and unambiguous direction is sometimes lacking. Your ability to be resilient creative and persistent will be key contributors to your success.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Be accountable for the Project Owner Budgets & Schedules in the region project performance and accurate and real-time reporting
- Support and lead a culture of safety quality collaboration and professionalism across the region
- Provide high-level direction to the GC Owner vendors and other trade partners as required to ensure successful project delivery
- Review and negotiate Construction Schedules from GCs and Owner-direct vendors as required and prepare/present schedule overviews as required
- Be accountable for leading managing forecasting and tracking cost schedule and quality performance and risks for large-scale data center delivery projects Prepare and deliver reports analysis and presentations for other STACK teams the Senior Leadership Team the Board and other parties as required
- Manage Client relations as required including interface with STACKs funding partner and Senior Leadership Team
- Lead manage mentor and develop STACK project teams across the region fostering and championing a collaborative and high-morale culture
- Collaborate successfully with other STACK teams including Strategy Sales Engineering EH&S Finance and Operations
- Proactive problem solving in the field with multiple stakeholders to achieve aggressive project objectives
- Provide leadership strategic direction and decision-making ensuring project alignment with client objectives and its adherence to STACKs operational and strategic goals
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- Client-facing and team leadership experience required
- Experience managing business relationships with both external and internal teams at a senior level
- Able to build positive relationships to encourage professional and quality growth opportunities within client and internal teams
- Knowledge and competency with Bluebeam and BIM platforms is a plus
- Excellent financial acumen (familiarity with NetSuite preferred but not required)
- Experience with multiple large-scale fast-moving projects across a region and a proven track-record of developing a collaborative and high-morale team culture
- Strong leadership skills high emotional intelligence and a proven track record in leading managing and developing teams
- Mastery of the tools of the trade (AIA Contracts Construction Schedules Budgets & Schedules of Values Payment Applications Lien Releases Subcontracts Purchase Orders Invoices Vendor Agreements Construction Insurance types etc.)
- Exceptional Data Center technical knowledge including OFCI/CFCI equipment procurement strategies and lead times Owner-direct vendors lender requirements etc.
- Rigorous attention to detail precision and accuracy particularly in financial matters budgets cost projections etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills externally with Clients and across all levels of the organization including the Executive level
- Ability to prioritize delegate and stay focused under high levels of pressure manage multiple competing priorities and adapt to constantly changing requirements; strong organizational skills are a must
- Positive can-do attitude and team player
THE DETAILS:
- Location: Las Cruces/Dona Ana County New Mexico
- Travel: Domestic travel required up to 25%
- Compensation: TBD
- Benefits: Healthcare Dental Care Vision Insurance Life Insurance Paid Time Off Paid Leave Programs
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
- Must pass comprehensive background screening
MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficient in MS Word Excel and PowerPoint (Procore is a plus)
- 10-15 years in Construction of Data Centers (including related fields such as Project Management Consulting Development and Design/Engineering)
- Large-scale Turnkey Data Center experiencerequired
- Extensive experience in large scale ground up core and shell sitework utility and fitout construction ($1B preferred)
- Four-year degree in a related field (Construction Management Engineering Architecture Business Management)
- Client-facing and team leadership experience required
THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:
- Youre a strong communicator equally comfortable in the boardroom as the data center hall. Youre persuasive and clear blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
- You dont get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
- Youre a teambuilder. 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.
- Youre 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 programs.
- Fun is part of our DNA with events game nights happy hours and barbecues.
- Were growing this is a great time to join and make an impact!
Application Deadline: October 5 2025
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 will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
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