[Hiring] Data Center Facility Operations Area Director @Meta

Role Description

Meta is seeking a Senior Director to lead Data Center Facility Operations across a multi-area region, including operating campuses and future sites that are yet to be announced or built. This role owns the multi-year operating strategy for its region, leads and develops a recursive organization of managers and directors, and is accountable for outcomes that are reported to and relied upon by senior company leadership.

• Own end-to-end leadership and operational accountability for Facility Operations across multiple geographic areas, encompassing all operational campuses in the region and the operational readiness of future sites.
• Define and own the multi-year facility operations strategy for the region, and align senior company leadership behind it; translate Meta's infrastructure and capacity roadmap into regional operating plans.
• Build and develop the region's leadership bench: hire, coach, and grow leaders, changing the growth trajectory of senior leaders and maintaining a clear succession plan for critical roles.
• Implement organization-wide processes, standards, tools, and monitoring systems; where gaps exist, drive the creation of new global standards rather than local adaptations.
• Partner with peer leaders to establish globally consistent operating models, and hold the region accountable for adopting them.
• Be accountable for their region's OpEx and CapEx portfolio and major supplier/contract strategy, including influencing the multi-year cost trajectory for their region and performing against efficiency targets that are visible at the fleet level and at the individual site level.
• Influence and partner with other Area Directors and stakeholders to define the KPI and reliability framework for mission-critical facility operations in the region; hold leaders in their region accountable to it and use it to drive fleet-level improvement.
• Serve as the senior escalation and decision authority for major incidents, equipment failures, and systemic reliability risks; ensure rigorous root cause analysis and that corrective actions are institutionalized across the fleet, not just locally remediated.
• Partner with senior leadership in cross-functional organizations - resolving competing priorities and cross-functional tradeoffs at the regional and global level.
• Own operational readiness and construction turnover outcomes for the region, ensuring new capacity comes online safely, on schedule, and fully staffed.
• Champion safety and EHS culture as a non-negotiable operating standard across the region.
• Represent Meta Facility Operations externally where appropriate (industry forums, supplier and utility partnerships).
• Identify and drive adoption of automation, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches that materially improve reliability, efficiency, and staffing leverage across the region.
• Own org health as a measured outcome — Meta’s Pulse indicator, attrition, upward feedback, and manager effectiveness — and diagnose and resolve complex health issues spanning multiple teams and disciplines.
• Distill and communicate the operational excellence vision and roadmap for the broader discipline, and drive its adoption across their region, stakeholders and the broader Infra Data Center organization.
• Drive operational contributions to cross-company initiatives and campaigns including recruiting, leadership development programs, site initiatives, and industry engagement; drive engagement on these programs within their organization.
• Hold themselves, their organization, and XFN partners accountable to the Code of Conduct, regulatory and permitting obligations, and company policy; serve as an escalation point and foster a culture where people feel safe and empowered to raise concerns.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building, developing, and leading high-performance technical or operations organizations, including 8+ years leading through other managers or directors in a recursive organization.
• Experience leading mission-critical operations across multiple geographies or sites with full P&L or budget accountability.
• Experience setting and executing multi-year operating strategy, and aligning executive stakeholders behind it.
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining director-level leaders, and building succession depth.
• Experience communicating with and influencing executive leadership, including presenting operational risk and strategy to senior decision-makers.
• Experience leading large-scale organizational change through ambiguity, including reorganizations, rapid growth, or new site/market entry.
• Experience owning large OpEx and CapEx budgets and strategic supplier relationships.
• Knowledge and understanding of critical power and cooling infrastructure.
• Ability to travel approximately 25-50%.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Engineering, or advanced degree in engineering or business.
• Experience leading organizations of 150+ people across multiple sites.
• Experience scaling operations organizations through significant capacity growth or new site launches.
• Experience in diverse industries such as electrical generation, electrical distribution, cooling technologies, or fire suppression systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of environmental, health, and safety programs at a regional or enterprise level.
• Experience deploying automation, data, or AI-enabled tooling to improve operational outcomes at scale.

Benefits

• $272,000/year to $318,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits.