Business Development, Technical Initiatives
Owns complex datacenter development, financing, and commercialization opportunities at the intersection of AI infrastructure and enterprise demand. The role requires datacenter build expertise, infrastructure finance and deal-structuring experience, Israeli government relationships, and 8+ years of relevant experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and negotiate datacenter development and colocation opportunities, including ground-up builds and colocation arrangements.
- Assess sites for power availability, utility interconnection timelines, critical load capacity, cooling infrastructure, fiber access, and physical security.
- Own deal metrics including all-in cost per MW, construction schedules, and long-term capacity optionality.
- Structure and negotiate agreements with datacenter developers and colocation partners, including capacity backstops, capacity reservations, and construction-phase financing.
- Build and manage enterprise customer relationships across the AI developer ecosystem.
- Translate customer compute requirements—including cluster scale, networking topology, and rack power density—into site-level development specifications.
- Partner with Account Executives to drive opportunities from origination through close.
- Develop strategic relationships with Israeli government stakeholders.
- Coordinate progress across infrastructure, legal, finance, and engineering teams without direct authority.
Requirements
- Direct experience with the technical and commercial dimensions of datacenter development, including site due diligence, power procurement, utility negotiations, UPS, cooling, generators, and construction milestone management.
- Ability to evaluate site feasibility and model project economics from first principles.
- Background at a leading investment bank, infrastructure-focused private equity firm, or project finance institution.
- Experience structuring and negotiating capacity backstops, long-term offtake agreements, construction financing, and sale-leaseback structures.
- Established relationships or demonstrated experience with Israeli government institutions, defense-adjacent agencies, or regional regulatory bodies.
- Experience navigating formal procurement frameworks and policy environments.
- Ability to coordinate complex, long-term deals across multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with power purchase agreements, utility interconnection processes, substation construction, or energy-driven infrastructure financing.
- Relationships within the Israeli technology, government, or infrastructure ecosystem.
- Familiarity with GPU compute density, high-performance networking, or managed inference workloads.
- Experience at a top-tier infrastructure, project finance, or strategy advisory firm.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package supporting financial security, health, and well-being.
- Benefits tailored to local market standards, including pension contributions and additional work-life-balance perks.
Skills
Datacenter Development, Colocation, Power Procurement, Utility Interconnection, Ups, Cooling Systems, Generators, Project Finance, Financial Structuring, Offtake Agreements, Sale-Leaseback Structures, Power Purchase Agreements, Gpu Compute, High-Performance Networking, Stakeholder Management
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