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The Director, Development is responsible for leading multi-site and regional data center development activities to support CyrusOne’s growth strategy. This role drives coordinated execution across land acquisition, due diligence, permitting, incentives, utilities, engineering, sales and construction enablement to ensure projects meet underwriting assumptions, achieve financial close, and are positioned for successful construction completion. The Director serves as a strategic integrator, aligning cross-functional teams and external consultants and contractors to deliver development outcomes that accelerate market readiness and value creation.What You Will Do:\nLeads execution of CyrusOne’s development management strategy at the regional or multi-site level by translating enterprise objectives into actionable data center development plans aligned with growth and investment goals.\nPlans, manages, and oversees end-to-end activities across land, entitlements, power readiness, engineering, sales and construction workflows, ensuring projects maintain timelines and meet financial and commercial requirements.\nOwns cross-functional alignment, partnering with land, engineering design, construction, legal, tax, power, solutions engineering, procurement, underwriting, and sales to ensure all requirements are met for gating approvals, investment committee approvals, project design and construction packages and financial close.\nEnsures commercial, technical, and financial conditions are satisfied to support capital approval, land closing, and project kickoff-mitigating risks and resolving blockers proactively.\nCoordinates with internal functional areas to ensure consultant teams, contractors and internal technical experts to execute due diligence, feasibility analysis, entitlement work, permitting strategy, and infrastructure planning, ensuring quality and timely delivery.\nEstablishes governance and communication frameworks, delivering project updates, risk registers, schedules, and milestone reporting to senior leadership.\nBuilds and maintains strong relationships with internal stakeholders and supports the company with other key stakeholders, including utilities, municipalities, landowners, developers, and external partners to enable project success and enable favorable outcomes.\nDrives operational excellence, implementing repeatable processes, tools, templates, and analytics consistent with global development management standards.\nSupports project development (all project activities from due diligence until delivery) and execution of project development plan.\nCoaches and mentors Development Project Managers and analysts, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and development execution capability.\nWhat We Are Looking For:\nRequired\n10+ years of data center development, or mission-critical project development experience.\nBachelor’s degree required; preferred fields include engineering, architecture, planning, or project management.\nExperience in site selection, due diligence, permitting, zoning, utility coordination, engineering, and construction activities.\nBackground working with multidisciplinary technical teams.\nStrong negotiation skills; ability to drive consensus and secure commitments.\nDemonstrated success managing multiple complex development projects concurrently.\nStrong commercial and project management mindset with ability to conceptualize returns and evaluate risk-reward tradeoffs in data center development.\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-functional development execution involving financial, technical, and commercial stakeholders.\nProven ability to drive alignment, influence without authority, and communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.\nAbility to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and adapt quickly to shifting priorities.\nProfessional, detail-oriented approach with strong understanding of development, site planning, permitting, utilities, design and construction requirements.\nAbility to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and cross-functional dependency management.\nSome travel required.\nPreferred\nData center or large-scale infrastructure development experience preferred.\nMaster’s degree or professional certification preferred.\nWhy Join Us?:\nBe part of the rapidly growingdatacenterindustry powering the world’s digital infrastructure \nCollaborative environment focused on commitment, accountability, respect and excellence \nComprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans, life and disability insurance, access to mental health resources and employee assistance program \nCompetitive pay, performance bonus, 401(k) retirement plan with company match \nGenerous paid time off and holidays \nCyrusOne is an equal opportunity employer. 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