# Director Strategic Transactions

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Austin, TX
**Role:** Business Development
**Salary:** $300k – $390k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** M&A, Leveraged Finance, Infrastructure Transactions, Deal Negotiation, Contract Management, Deal Tracking, Pipeline Reporting, Legal Coordination, Process Building, Multi-Party Deal Closing
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Owns end-to-end commercial deal processes for large-scale infrastructure transactions, negotiating high-stakes deals and building repeatable workflows from LOI through signature and handoff.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Own how Fluidstack negotiates its deals and runs the commercial process behind them, getting the best terms while keeping the process tight and fast.
- Own the deal lifecycle end to end, from kickoff through signature and handoff to delivery.
- Build and maintain deal tracking, documentation standards, and workflows so nothing slips.
- Create stage gates, readiness checklists, and escalation paths that make the process repeatable.
- Work with legal to drive contracts to signature on aggressive timelines, and support commercial negotiations across the deal portfolio.
- Report deal status and pipeline health to leadership clearly and concisely.

## What We're Looking For
- You've owned high-stakes commercial negotiations (M&A, leveraged finance, or complex infrastructure transactions) and closed large, multi-party deals under time pressure.
- You build deal processes from scratch and operationalize them with high attention to detail across many concurrent workstreams.
- You drive contracts to signature with legal on aggressive timelines.
- You communicate clearly and directly with leadership, legal, internal teams, and external counterparts.
- You report pipeline and deal health crisply to leadership.

## Bonus
- Background in banking, law, or corporate development.
- Infrastructure, energy, or data center transactions.
- Building a deal desk or commercial-ops function.

## Salary & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
- The base salary range for this position is $350,000 - $500,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

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