Senior Corporate Counsel, Datacenters and Infrastructure

Overview

The organization is seeking to add a Senior Corporate Counsel, Datacenters and Infrastructure to support complex legal matters related to physical infrastructure that enables cloud services and AI.

This role reports to the Associate General Counsel and works with a small, dynamic team focused on datacenter leasing and operations. Responsibilities span drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of high-value agreements for datacenter development, procurement, and ongoing operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted partner and primary legal contact to drive datacenter-related agreements to signature, including LOIs, MSAs, order forms, and ancillary agreements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements supporting the building, deployment, and operation of datacenters, including:
  • Datacenter capacity leasing, colocation, and design/build agreements
  • Facilities/operations and maintenance agreements
  • Infrastructure procurement agreements for GPUs and other compute hardware, integrated server systems, network equipment, power equipment, and other datacenter infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across datacenter procurement, engineering and operations, finance, tax, and compliance to structure deals.
• Provide business-focused counseling on risk allocation, supplier risk assessments, and supplier/product performance and remediation matters.
• Support international expansion by adapting requirements for new jurisdictions and coordinating with local counsel on local law and market issues.
• Build scalable legal tools for infrastructure transactions, including templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval matrices to improve contracting speed and consistency.
• Take on other high-priority legal work to support a lean Legal Department, including key vendor and operations agreements.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state.
• 8+ years of legal experience and 3+ years of significant in-house experience supporting datacenter or similar large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience with datacenter contracts from a developer/provider or tenant perspective, including single-tenant and/or colocation deals involving modified-gross, triple net, or other lease structures.
• Experience with facilities agreements and operations-and-maintenance contracts.
• Familiarity with datacenter operational requirements, including SLA constructs, maintenance windows, security requirements, audit rights, change control, and service credits, as well as tax incentives and financing structures.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with minimal oversight to meet aggressive timelines while delivering high-quality work product.
• Demonstrated business judgment to calibrate business and legal risk and translate complex legal advice into actionable guidance for business stakeholders.
• Superlative communication and collaborative problem-solving skills, with the ability to build positive, influential relationships with cross-functional partners and senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct experience negotiating enterprise datacenter leases.
• Experience with international procurement, trade compliance, and supply-chain risk issues.
• Experience negotiating power-related contracts, including interconnection agreements, electricity service agreements, power purchase agreements (PPAs), and behind-the-meter generation structures.
• Experience with early-stage site selection diligence for datacenters, including zoning and permitting processes.
• Tech-savvy with an interest in cutting-edge AI technologies.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation Range: $204,800 - $256,000
• This is a remote role.

Additional Information

• Equal Opportunity Employer: The organization does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
• Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period.