Power Portfolio Manager - AI Data Centers

About the role

A developer and owner of AI data center infrastructure is looking for a Power Portfolio Manager to own the power strategy behind its national rollout of AI inference data centers. The client is converting sites across a large national real estate portfolio into power-dense edge compute facilities, in partnership with a leading hyperscale cloud platform, with active sites across 12+ states. The role is senior, hands-on and individual-contributor, reporting to executive leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain the master power portfolio, tracking available, requested and committed capacity (MW/MVA) for every site across 12+ states.
• Track utility timelines, upgrade costs and risks for each site.
• Serve as day-to-day lead with utility account managers, planners and engineers on service requests, load studies, agreements, deposits and infrastructure upgrades.
• Manage outside engineering firms and consolidate studies, one-lines and utility letters into one reliable source of truth.
• Identify long-lead equipment and schedule risks early, including substations, feeders, transformers, switchgear and service entrances.
• Deliver concise weekly updates to leadership with clear recommendations and escalations.
• Travel as needed to utilities, project sites and engineering partners.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 6+ years of power delivery experience working directly with electric utilities, at a utility or on the developer, EPC, data center or industrial side.
• Proven record of moving utility service or capacity requests to energization without direct authority over the utility.
• Hands-on utility or electrical experience; backgrounds limited to energy sales, origination, trading, general program management or residential/small commercial service will not be considered.
• Preferred: experience inside an electric utility in large-load service, new business, distribution planning or interconnections; data center, mission-critical or heavy industrial load experience; experience managing a multi-state portfolio across several utilities; knowledge of tariffs, electric service agreements, load studies and system impact studies.

Required skills

• Ability to read one-line diagrams and utility load or system impact studies.
• Strong working knowledge of MW vs. MVA, power factor, feeders, substations, transformers and switchgear.

What we offer

• Salary of $150,000 to $220,000 depending on experience and qualifications.
• Annual bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Headquarters in Saratoga Springs, NY preferred; candidates near a major hub airport will also be considered.