About the Role
Meta is seeking an experienced Lease Portfolio Manager to oversee a large-scale, geographically distributed portfolio of data center lease agreements. This role drives portfolio-level strategy, manages complex contractual obligations, and ensures leased capacity aligns with Meta's infrastructure demand forecasts, acting as a critical link between various internal teams to optimize lease structures and mitigate risk.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage a global portfolio of data center lease agreements, tracking key contractual milestones, renewal options, termination rights, and financial obligations.
- Develop and maintain portfolio-level capacity models aligning leased data center inventory with long-range infrastructure demand forecasts.
- Lead lease restructuring, renewal, and exit negotiations in coordination with legal, finance, and site selection teams.
- Identify and escalate portfolio risks related to capacity shortfalls, lease expirations, or contractual non-compliance, and drive resolution strategies.
- Build and maintain financial models to evaluate lease economics, including total cost of ownership, capital exposure, and scenario analysis across lease structures.
- Partner with capacity planning and infrastructure teams to translate compute and power demand signals into actionable lease portfolio decisions.
- Develop and enforce portfolio governance standards, including lease abstraction processes, data integrity protocols, and reporting cadences.
- Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to ensure lease agreements meet regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Produce executive-level reporting and portfolio dashboards communicating capacity availability, financial commitments, and strategic risks.
- Evaluate market conditions, colocation provider landscapes, and emerging lease structures to inform long-term portfolio strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in data center lease portfolio management, real estate asset management, or data center capacity planning.
- Experience managing large-scale, multi-site data center lease portfolios across diverse geographies and lease structures (e.g., Modified Gross, NNN, Yield-on-Cost).
- Experience developing financial models for lease transactions, including NPV analysis, capital exposure modeling, and sensitivity analysis.
- Experience collaborating across legal, finance, real estate, and infrastructure or capacity planning functions to drive portfolio decisions.
- Experience synthesizing complex contractual, financial, and operational data into executive-level communications and strategic recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
- Experience integrating capacity demand forecasting methodologies with real estate portfolio planning in a hyperscale or large enterprise data center environment.
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
- Familiarity with power procurement, critical infrastructure constraints, and their impact on lease site selection and portfolio strategy.
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices in data analysis and decision-support contexts.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize portfolio reporting workflows and drive measurable efficiency or accuracy improvements.
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $197,000/year to $271,000/year
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
About the Company
- Meta's infrastructure underpins some of the world's most widely used platforms, and the data center lease portfolio that supports this infrastructure must be managed with precision, strategic foresight, and operational rigor.
