Community Engagement Lead

FluidStack

Community Engagement Lead at Fluidstack representing the company in public forums and managing stakeholder relationships. Prioritizing community benefits and addressing political risks for AI infrastructure projects.

Posted 7/17/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

Role fit

Core Competencies

Use this summary to align your resume positioning with the role.

Demonstrates expertise in stakeholder management and external communications, effectively navigating complex infrastructure projects while mitigating political and reputational risks. Proven ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders and translate intricate narratives for varied audiences.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Stakeholder ManagementExternal CommunicationsPolitical Risk AssessmentLobbyist ManagementInfrastructure Project Representation

ATS Keywords

Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Soft Skills

Relationship BuildingClear CommunicationConflict ResolutionCoalition Building

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure DevelopmentCommunity EngagementPublic RelationsSustainabilityEnvironmental PermittingEnergy ProcurementGrid InterconnectionLocal Hiring ProgramsEducational PartnershipsNonprofit Collaboration

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Represent Fluidstack at town halls, public hearings, planning commission meetings, and community events as the primary external face across active development sites.
Build and hold relationships across a wide stakeholder matrix: elected officials, city and county staff, utility partners, school districts, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, and trade associations.
Identify and get ahead of organized opposition before capital is committed, surfacing reputational, regulatory, and political risk in coordination with Development, Legal, and Commercial teams.
Deploy community benefit commitments, including local hiring programs, educational partnerships, and grants, and write communications materials that translate infrastructure complexity into clear narratives for community, government, and executive audiences.
Manage external partners, including lobbyists, consultants, and PR agencies, across multiple concurrent site campaigns.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've been the named external face for a large infrastructure project, fielding opposition at public hearings and building coalitions that got something built.
You've managed a stakeholder map with genuine competing interests, elected officials, regulators, community organizations, utilities, and kept relationships functional under pressure.
You spot political or reputational risk early enough to do something about it, and you've changed a project outcome by catching something before it organized into opposition.
You write and speak clearly enough to make a complex infrastructure story land with a city council member, a local nonprofit, and a CEO in the same week.
You've directly managed lobbyists, PR firms, or political consultants: set the brief, held them accountable, and stepped in when they weren't moving fast enough.
You're comfortable on the road; this role requires sustained presence at active sites, not periodic visits.
Bonus: Hyperscale or AI data center development experience. Energy procurement or grid interconnection communications. Sustainability or environmental permitting narratives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options
Committed to pay equity and transparency