Aligned Data Centers

Community Manager

• Serve as the link between Aligned and our host communities, managing local relationships throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Listen and maintain a proactive feedback loop, regular engagement and dialogue with local residents, community organizations, local media, local / business leaders, and non-government organizations (NGOs), serving as an accessible resource for resident concerns and acting as an internal advocate to ensure local sentiment is addressed during every phase of the project lifecycle.
• Proactively educate the community on Aligned’s developments, building and maintaining their trust in the process and fostering their understanding of all the local value the project brings.
• Operate cross-functionally with the Community Engagement Lead and Aligned’s development, energy, government / public affairs, communications, and operations teams to develop and execute community engagement strategies for new and existing sites.
• Synthesize community feedback into actionable insights for internal project planning and execution.
• Transform technical data and engineering concepts into accessible, easily understood messaging for the general public.
• Serve as the Aligned representative at community events as well as in public forums, council meetings, public hearings, and open houses.
• Partner with the communications team to develop proactive communications to address concerns, highlight benefits, and reduce risks.
• Monitor community sentiment and advise on risks and opportunities.
• Manage and update Aligned’s community engagement playbook and digital workflow.
• Work closely with Aligned’s People & Culture as well as Aligned Academy teams to coordinate local workforce development and education initiatives.

Community Engagement Liaison

Technical Program Manager

• Support customer pre-sales activities by coordinating contractual activities across company stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison for customers, facilitating proactive communication between ADC internal teams (SA, PD, SD, Ops) and external teams (Design, Construction, Legal, etc.).
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to standardize processes across the Customer/ADC portfolio.
• Integrates with functional teams to deliver technical projects from pre-construction to post-delivery and is accountable to the project staying within scope, on time, and within budget by working closely with CMs and DMs.
• Identify potential project risks early and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful outcomes throughout project lifecycle.
• Provide expertise in data center infrastructure to guide customers through the base build and fit-out phases, ensuring that the facility meets operational and technical requirements.
• Measure and track KPIs to ensure that projects meet customer expectations, operational goals, and contractual obligations.
• Stay updated on customer/industry trends and emerging technologies to inform customers and help shape strategic direction for the organization.

Customer Technical Program Manager

Recruitment

• Source and engage qualified candidates for a variety of roles
• Own and prioritize multiple searches and projects
• Assist in the creation of programs to drive successful outreach
• Partner with key stakeholders to build and implement effective recruiting strategies
• Communicate sourcing strategies to HR verbally and in writing
• Drive best in class recruiting and onboarding experience
• Assist in the development and implementation of new recruiting processes
• Develop and execute plans to identify and drive productivity improvements

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Manager

• Enterprise owner of Aligned Data Center’s Training Program, responsible for building, governing, and scaling a standardized, data-driven training function across Operations, Security, and Platform Delivery.
• Accountable for ensuring training directly improves operational performance, reduces risk, and drives consistent execution across all sites.
• Leads the Training Department, owns the full training lifecycle, and ensures execution in accordance with Aligned’s policies and procedures.
• Transforms training from a support function into a core operational lever by integrating performance analytics, incident trends, and audit findings into targeted, measurable development programs.
• Own and enforce the enterprise training framework across Operations, Security, and Platform Delivery.
• Develop and execute a multi-year training strategy aligned with company growth, new site development, and evolving technologies.

Senior Manager, Training

• Own and maintain the companywide maintenance strategy, governance model, standards, and policies.
• Develop, publish, and maintain standardized SOWs, PM templates, task lists, and frequencies across all sites.
• Drive alignment with industry best practices, OEM guidance, and internal Runbook expectations.
• Oversee all national maintenance vendor contracts and lead rate card standardization efforts.
• Manage vendor consolidation strategy to reduce OpEx, unify scope baselines, and eliminate variability between markets.
• Lead contract negotiations, SOW validation, and national-level QBR/YBR processes.
• Establish national QA/QC expectations for PMs, corrective maintenance, and vendor deliverables.
• Implement audit frameworks for completion quality, documentation integrity, and PM accuracy.
• Own maintenance program analytics, including compliance dashboards, forecasting models, cost benchmarks, and performance trends.
• Partner with Platform Delivery, Commissioning, and Engineering during construction phases to ensure maintenance readiness.
• Provide direct guidance and oversight to Regional Maintenance Program Managers.

Senior Manager, Maintenance Program

Compliance

• Establish and own the enterprise Operations Compliance Program across all sites.
• Develop standardized compliance frameworks, processes, and enforcement mechanisms.
• Ensure consistent execution of compliance requirements across all markets.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for Operations-related compliance risk.
• Build centralized visibility into compliance status, risks, and gaps across the portfolio.
• Own all air quality permitting requirements across the portfolio, including permit acquisition, renewals, and modifications.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local air quality regulations and permit conditions.
• Implement and standardize generator hour tracking, emissions tracking, and environmental reporting processes.
• Monitor generator usage against permitted limits and proactively mitigate risk of exceedances.
• Lead regulatory reporting, including emissions inventories, deviation reports, and required filings.
• Ensure all facilities maintain required operating permits and remain compliant with jurisdictional requirements.
• Track permit conditions, renewal timelines, and regulatory obligations across all sites.
• Develop centralized systems to monitor compliance status in real time.
• Partner with site leadership to ensure adherence to all permit conditions and regulatory requirements.
• Own compliance with customer contractual obligations related to operations and maintenance execution.
• Ensure vendor scopes, service delivery, and maintenance practices align with contractual requirements and SLAs.
• Establish validation processes to confirm contracted work is executed correctly and consistently.
• Identify gaps between contracted scope and actual execution, and drive corrective actions.
• Develop and implement a standardized compliance audit program across all sites.
• Conduct regular audits of environmental, regulatory, and contractual compliance.
• Establish dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide real-time compliance visibility.
• Lead investigation of compliance deviations, including root cause analysis and corrective action plans.

Compliance Manager, Operations

Director

• Drive projects from inception through customer or business turnover, with heavy focus and leadership in the preconstruction and design phases of projects.
• The Design Managers assume project lead role at design hand-off meeting from land enablement team and shifts overall project leadership to the Construction Manager (CM) at GC mobilization.
• Main point of contact for design management team in particular campus or geographic region.
• Works hand-in-hand with the regional Director, Construction Management to ensure performance certainty across all projects.
• Direct the day-to-day design management operations and long-term strategic direction of projects.
• Provide guidance and leadership throughout the entire lifecycle of projects, ensuring they are meeting or exceeding company expectations.
• Develop and maintain deep-rooted industry relationships with leaders in the contracting community including design partners, AHJ’s, general contractors and trade partners.
• Create effective tools to empower and incentivize design and contracting partners to innovate approaches and solutions for project delivery and specific challenges.
• Coordination/communication with the land enablement group to ensure success with offsite improvements, early permitting, easements and environmental studies for all sites in the geographical region.
• Collaborates with Director, Design Management peers in other regions to maintain consistency across all regions/projects.
• Assists regional Director, Construction Management in collaborating/coordinating with other construction directors across all regions/projects.
• Assist to interview, hire, and assure effective training and development of new and existing staff.
• Reports status, successes, challenges, and plans of action to management team and company on a timely basis.
• Develop, manage and be accountable for achievement of key departmental metrics.
• Leads, evaluates, holds accountable and develops the regional Design Management team members in the following: Coordination/creation of project risk registers from land enablement phase through project completion/turnover to Aligned Operations Project design management: Coordinating onboarding of third-party design team and creation of design schedule to support project needs.
• Overseeing management of external third-party design team through project completion/turnover to Aligned Operations.
• Driving review and management of design deliverables; including stakeholder review and comment cycles.
• Holding design teams accountable to design progression and design gating.
• Working with SMEs, Operations, and CMs to ensure design compliance with Aligned Design Efficiency Capture (DEC).
• Identifying design variances, tracks them and manages acquisition of necessary approvals, as required.
• Enforcing design team’s accountability to Aligned’s Cost Control Log (CCL) and Complies, Deviates, Excludes (CDE) matrices.
• Operating in lockstep with the CM on each project to ensure proper communications/escalations and regular reporting to all internal and external parties and leadership/management.
• Creating, managing and updating project metrics in Smartsheets (project dashboards) for each project.
• Owning or directing all administrative duties related to design management process.
• Assisting CM with building and maintaining budget/cost models/all phase budgets for each project, specifically around design costs and timelines.
• Working with CM to prepare and present all funding requests.
• Coordinating with CM to prepare and present quarterly project updates for leadership.
• In conjunction with CM, supports day-to-day program activities and initiatives (engage with architects, consultants, equipment providers, GCs, etc. Coordinate all project activities with building Operations while promoting safety and compliance initiatives and requirements on site).
• Performs as the primary support role to the CM from GC mobilization to turnover to Operations.
• Integrating with the sales and solutions engineering teams during the revenue generation process to meet with customers and ensure technical deliverables are met.
• Interfacing with customer through fit-out design, construction and integration; accountable to successful delivery of customer contracts.
• Managing the project with the business in mind and works to ensure project is meeting directives of CRC/SLT/Board.
• Operating with a constant mindset of continuous improvement, creativity, efficiency and innovation.

Community Engagement Liaison

Community Engagement Liaison

Customer Technical Program Manager

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Senior Manager, Training

Senior Manager, Maintenance Program

Compliance Manager, Operations

Director – Design Management