About the Role
As Fluidstack scales its GPU cluster footprint, this role will serve as the primary interface between our infrastructure projects and the surrounding communities, governments, and civic institutions. You will build trust, sustain it through construction and operations, and turn stakeholders into advocates. This function sits at the intersection of public affairs, economic development, and communications, and you will build it from scratch. This is a high-leverage role with direct exposure to Fluidstack's leadership.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary face of Fluidstack in data center communities, attending town halls, public hearings, planning commission meetings, and community events.
- Represent Fluidstack's interests at external forums.
- Build and maintain relationships across a broad stakeholder matrix including elected officials, city/county staff, utility partners, school districts, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, trade associations, and community members.
- Proactively identify and neutralize opposition before it organizes.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to surface reputational, regulatory, and political risk before capital is committed.
- Coordinate and deploy community benefit commitments (local hiring, workforce programs, educational partnerships, grants).
- Develop communications materials that translate complex infrastructure realities into clear narratives for community, government, and executive audiences.
- Manage external partners including lobbyists, consultants, and PR agencies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in public affairs, technology policy, infrastructure development, or related fields.
- Expertise in political communication and complex stakeholder management.
- Familiarity with large scale infrastructure projects and project management.
- State and local community engagement experience.
- Ability to travel 30% or more to active sites or as needed for projects.
Skills
- Political communication
- Complex stakeholder management
- Large scale infrastructure project management
- State and local community engagement
- Public affairs
- Technology policy
- Infrastructure development
- Hyperscale or AI data center development context (nice to have)
- Energy procurement (nice to have)
- Grid interconnection (nice to have)
- Sustainability communications (nice to have)
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Benefits
- Equity in the form of stock options
About the Company
- Fluidstack exists to make humanity more free by delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. We are building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.
- We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.
Equal Opportunity
- Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
