Position Title:

Director, Hyperscale Leasing & Development

Location:

New York, NY

Your role

The Director, Hyperscale Leasing & Development serves as the business lead for assigned hyperscale development projects, with responsibility for lease negotiation, deal structuring, and development oversight. This role focuses on driving successful commercial outcomes across the full lifecycle of complex hyperscale developments.

Partnering closely with leasing, development, acquisitions, capital markets, and legal teams, this individual ensures projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and aligned with commercial and ownership objectives. This role does not perform construction or project management, but provides leadership, coordination, and accountability from a business and asset management perspective.

What you’ll do

• Lead or support lease negotiations with hyperscale customers
• Structure commercial terms, including phasing, delivery schedules, and development commitments
• Partner with leasing and customer teams to advance transactions and develop creative deal solutions
• Serve as the business lead for assigned hyperscale development projects from acquisition through delivery
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to align commercial agreements with development execution
• Oversee development progress relative to schedule, budget, and underwriting assumptions
• Identify risks and drive issue resolution related to permitting, utilities, infrastructure, and customer requirements
• Support development budgeting, scope changes, and phasing decisions
• Drive value creation and performance across assigned hyperscale opportunities

What you’ll need

• 10+ years of experience across one or more of the following areas:
  • Data center development
  • Commercial real estate development
  • Asset management
  • Industrial or infrastructure development
• Experience overseeing large-scale, complex development projects
• Experience with lease negotiations and deal structuring preferred
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and complex transactions
• Ability to operate effectively across leasing, development, and investment functions

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. You’ll collaborate across business areas, challenge the way we do things, and put your ideas into action—while building a rewarding, long-term career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data are essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners, and our customers. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards contributions aligned to the company’s goals and values.

Compensation & Benefits

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Total compensation may also include cash bonus and other incentives.

Compensation range: $160,000 – $180,000 annually

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, disability benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, wellness and education benefits, and more.

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The Director, Hyperscale Leasing & Development serves as the business lead for assigned hyperscale development projects, with responsibility for lease negotiation, deal structuring, and development oversight. This role focuses on driving successful commercial outcomes across the full lifecycle of complex hyperscale developments.