Strategic Transactions Lead

New York, NY

Full Time

About Fluidstack

At Fluidstack, we build the compute, data centers, and power that will fuel artificial superintelligence. We supply GWs of compute capabilities to the world’s biggest AI Labs at industry-defining speeds.

Our team is small, fast, and obsessed with quality. We own outcomes end-to-end, challenge assumptions, and treat our customers' problems as our own. No task is beneath anyone here.

There are a few thousand people who will shape the trajectory of superintelligence. Come and be one of them.

Role Overview

As a Strategic Transactions Lead, you’ll lead the commercial work required to secure data center capacity and related infrastructure from early market outreach through negotiation and contract execution. You’ll partner closely with legal, finance, engineering, networking, and delivery teams to translate technical needs into workable deal structures and get agreements signed on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Drive transactions from LOI to signature: coordinate diligence, align internal approvals, and ensure commercial terms match technical and delivery requirements.

• Negotiate commercial terms across deal stages, including initial proposals, term sheets, and letters of intent balancing speed, risk, cost, and long-term partnership value.

• Serve as the deal quarterback across internal stakeholders and external counterparties, keeping communication clear and decisions unblocked.

• Build and maintain detailed deal plans: milestones, dependencies, critical path, and risk tracking surfacing issues early and proposing mitigations.

• Create repeatable templates and playbooks (e.g., RFP materials, evaluation frameworks, negotiation checklists) to help Fluidstack scale infrastructure procurement.

• Support the handoff into delivery/deployment teams so signed agreements translate cleanly into executed buildouts and operational readiness.
  
  
  
  

Requirements

• Experience in transactions, commercial real estate, data center leasing/procurement, or large-scale infrastructure sourcing.

• Proven track record closing complex, multi-party deals with legal and financial diligence comfortably navigating ambiguity and tight timelines.

• Strong negotiation skills and hands-on experience with term sheets / LOIs and definitive agreements.

• Excellent cross-functional program management: able to coordinate legal, technical, finance, and operations stakeholders without losing momentum.

• Experience designing and running competitive sourcing/RFP processes and making tradeoffs based on both qualitative and quantitative inputs.

• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to distill complex issues into decisions and next steps for executives and partners.

• High attention to detail and strong organizational habits (deal tracking, documentation, and process discipline).
  
  
  
  

Nice to have

• Direct experience with data center capacity deals (colocation, powered shell, build-to-suit, wholesale, etc.).

• Familiarity with AI infrastructure constraints (high power density, cooling, network requirements) and how they affect commercial terms.

• Comfort working with utility/power considerations and local market dynamics that influence feasibility and timelines.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).

• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

The base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [email protected] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.