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Meta is seeking a Senior Director to lead Data Center Facility Operations across a multi-area region, including operating campuses and future sites that are yet to be announced or built. This role owns the multi-year operating strategy for its region, leads and develops a recursive organization of managers and directors, and is accountable for outcomes that are reported to and relied upon by senior company leadership. Beyond the region, this role is expected to create capabilities, programs, and operating models that do not exist and force multiply how Facility Operations runs fleet-wide - shaping the discipline's operating model rather than optimizing within it. The Senior Director brings clarity to highly ambiguous problems without requiring context, and designs the organization needed to execute against Meta's top infrastructure priorities.

Required Skills:

Data Center Facility Operations Area Director Responsibilities:

1. Own end-to-end leadership and operational accountability for Facility Operations across multiple geographic areas, encompassing all operational campuses in the region and the operational readiness of future sites.

2. Define and own the multi-year facility operations strategy for the region, and align senior company leadership behind it

3. translate Meta's infrastructure and capacity roadmap into regional operating plans.

4. Build and develop the region's leadership bench: hire, coach, and grow leaders, changing the growth trajectory of senior leaders and maintaining a clear succession plan for critical roles.

5. Implement organization-wide processes, standards, tools, and monitoring systems

6. where gaps exist, drive the creation of new global standards rather than local adaptations.

7. Partner with peer leaders to establish globally consistent operating models, and hold the region accountable for adopting them.

8. Be accountable for their region's OpEx and CapEx portfolio and major supplier/contract strategy, including influencing the multi-year cost trajectory for their region and performing against efficiency targets that are visible at the fleet level and at the individual site level.

9. Influence and partner with other Area Directors and stakeholders to define the KPI and reliability framework for mission-critical facility operations in the region

10. hold leaders in their region accountable to it and use it to drive fleet-level improvement.

11. Serve as the senior escalation and decision authority for major incidents, equipment failures, and systemic reliability risks

12. ensure rigorous root cause analysis and that corrective actions are institutionalized across the fleet, not just locally remediated.

13. Partner with senior leadership in cross-functional organizations - resolving competing priorities and cross-functional tradeoffs at the regional and global level.

14. Own operational readiness and construction turnover outcomes for the region, ensuring new capacity comes online safely, on schedule, and fully staffed.

15. Champion safety and EHS culture as a non-negotiable operating standard across the region.

16. Represent Meta Facility Operations externally where appropriate (industry forums, supplier and utility partnerships).

17. Identify and drive adoption of automation, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches that materially improve reliability, efficiency, and staffing leverage across the region.

18. Own org health as a measured outcome - Meta's Pulse indicator, attrition, upward feedback, and manager effectiveness - and diagnose and resolve complex health issues spanning multiple teams and disciplines.

19. Distill and communicate the operational excellence vision and roadmap for the broader discipline, and drive its adoption across their region, stakeholders and the broader Infra Data Center organization.

20. Drive operational contributions to cross-company initiatives and campaigns including recruiting, leadership development programs, site initiatives, and industry engagement

21. drive engagement on these programs within their organization.

22. Hold themselves, their organization, and XFN partners accountable to the Code of Conduct, regulatory and permitting obligations, and company policy

23. serve as an escalation point and foster a culture where people feel safe and empowered to raise concerns.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

24. 15+ years of experience building, developing, and leading high-performance technical or operations organizations, including 8+ years leading through other managers or directors in a recursive organization

25. Experience leading mission-critical operations across multiple geographies or sites with full P&L or budget accountability

26. Experience setting and executing multi-year operating strategy, and aligning executive stakeholders behind it

27. Experience hiring, developing, and retaining director-level leaders, and building succession depth

28. Experience communicating with and influencing executive leadership, including presenting operational risk and strategy to senior decision-makers

29. Experience leading large-scale organizational change through ambiguity, including reorganizations, rapid growth, or new site/market entry

30. Experience owning large OpEx and CapEx budgets and strategic supplier relationships

31. Knowledge and understanding of critical power and cooling infrastructure

32. Ability to travel approximately 25-50%

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

33. 4-year degree in Engineering, or advanced degree in engineering or business

34. Experience leading organizations of 150+ people across multiple sites

35. Experience scaling operations organizations through significant capacity growth or new site launches

36. Experience in diverse industries such as electrical generation, electrical distribution, cooling technologies, or fire suppression systems

37. Demonstrated ownership of environmental, health, and safety programs at a regional or enterprise level

38. Experience deploying automation, data, or AI-enabled tooling to improve operational outcomes at scale

Public Compensation:

$272,000/year to $318,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with appl...

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