Senior Manager, Data Center Pre-Development & Site Selection

Job description

**Company Overview:** Radiant is redefining how AI infrastructure is built. We design and operate AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale. Our infrastructure powers GPU-native workloads, multi-tenant control planes, and high-performance AI systems designed for the most demanding environments. We are not building a generic cloud. We are building purpose-built AI infrastructure — from powered land, to compute, to software. As we scale, we're building this organisation from the ground up. We're looking for people who'd rather build the playbook than inherit one — who are comfortable doing the work themselves as well as directing others, and who can adapt as fast as our strategy does. This is a startup model: attitude and adaptability matter more to us than years of experience or the size of team you've previously managed. This is a cross-functional role requiring strong technical, commercial, and delivery capabilities, with exposure to executive stakeholders and landowners, brokers, utilities, planning authorities, and the internal Design, Power and Legal teams. **What You'll Do** As part of the Development team, you'll own Radiant's site pipeline across Europe and the US hands-on, from the first conversation with a landowner or utility through to a signed option and a site that's ready for design. There's a growing established pipeline and playbook to date, but you'll be owning both as you go. **Key Responsibilities** **Site Sourcing & Pipeline** - Source and screen land, powered-shell and colocation opportunities across Europe and the US, working directly with landowners, brokers and utilities. - Build and maintain the site pipeline and evaluation criteria from scratch — there's no inherited process to follow. - Negotiate heads of terms and options directly, with legal support rather than a dedicated negotiation team. **Technical & Commercial Screening** - Run first-pass technical screening (power availability, grid queue position, fibre, land use, planning risk) yourself before looping in specialist input. - Coordinate site visits and due diligence, often travelling at short notice. **Cross-functional Coordination** - Work directly with Power & Utilities, Design & Engineering and commercial to pressure-test each site before it's committed. - Brief the CDO and management on site recommendations with clear, first-hand analysis - not a summary of someone else's work. **What You Bring:** - Attitude matters more to us here than number of years of experience**.** - Experience sourcing or evaluating sites, land or powered assets for data centres, energy, or infrastructure projects - however many years that took you. - Comfort working directly with landowners, brokers, utilities and local authorities without a large team around you. - A bias to getting on a plane or in a car to see a site yourself rather than relying on a report. - Working knowledge of what makes a site viable for 100MW+ GPU infrastructure (power, land, fibre, planning). - Ability to structure and negotiate heads of terms and options, or a fast willingness to learn how. - Comfort holding a pipeline in a spreadsheet on day one, and building the system that eventually replaces it, yourself. - Genuine technical competency in site viability — this is not a brokerage or agency-style role. **Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):** - Experience in both European and US real estate or utility markets. - Existing relationships with colocation operators, land agents or utilities. - Exposure to grid connection processes (TSO/DNO in Europe, utility/ISO in the US). **Qualities we look for:** - **Set the standard:** Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up. - **Inspire the change:** There's no blueprint for the future. You'll embrace challenges and change. - **You're real and you're true to yourself:** We cherish and celebrate diversity so you'll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you're talking to, you treat everyone the same. - **Get stuck in:** You'd rather be building than overseeing. Our strategy will keep evolving, and so will you — attitude and adaptability matter more to us than a fixed playbook or a big team behind you.