[Hiring] Data Centre Research Squad Lead @Voltility

Role Description

The Research Squad Lead for Data Centre (Load) leads Voltility's coverage of large-load demand in the US: data centres and other large energy users, how they procure power and the utility and grid processes that serve them.

You'll become the subject-matter expert the US large-load power market wants to talk to. You'll decide which sites, deals and processes to go after, build the network to get there, and combine market intelligence with AI-collected data to create the profiles and data sets our customers rely on. It's a doing role as much as a leading one: you'll be in the market building the data yourself, while coaching a small team of journalists and researchers to do the same.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the squad's large-load data sets and profiles end to end, from collection and enrichment through to delivery.
• Build and maintain an active network across the US large-load power market, from data centres to industrial and other large energy users.
• Run outbound collection. Identify targets, make contact, trade insight for information and log what is learnt.
• Work hand in hand with journalists to decide where to push, what to chase and how to turn scoops into structured data.
• Lead QA across the squad's load data and direct the research team's checks of tech-led data.
• Shape new researchers into proprietary collectors, coaching them on outbound, sourcing and market knowledge.
• Set and track squad collection targets.
• Verify data to the agreed standard before it is published, and record source and confidence.
• Monitor the utility, grid and regulatory developments that affect large loads in priority markets, and flag changes that matter.
• Stay on top of the public and non-proprietary sources for the squad's market, working with leadership and engineering to add new sources and keep existing ones current.
• Use the collection tooling for non-proprietary load data and enrich its output with context and market detail. Specify to engineering which further data points can be collected or pre-populated, and test what is built.
• Support the commercial team with subject-matter input to demonstrations and client questions.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of US large-load demand, especially data centres, and the power side of it.
• Background in research, journalism, consulting, development or utility planning with direct exposure to data centre or other large-load power deals.
• An existing network in the US data centre or wider large-load power market, and evidence of getting information from it.
• Experience managing or guiding junior colleagues; rigorous with sourcing and verification.