Director, Business Development, Global

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Business Development Department

This department at Vantage is a dynamic and integral component of our global business strategy, dedicated to enhancing our market position, uncovering new opportunities, and customer engagement across the world. This department comprises three specialized teams, each contributing uniquely to our overarching goals:

Global Market Strategy Team: This team is the backbone of our competitive intelligence efforts. It focuses on tracking and analyzing market trends, competitor activities, and customer insights to steer business decisions globally. With regional leaders this team ensures that our strategies are informed by a deep understanding of local and global markets. Their work involves setting global standards and adapting strategies to meet diverse market needs.

Business Development: The Business Development (BD) organization is a global, demand-side function focused on building early visibility, insight and influence across the AI chip and compute ecosystem. BD partners closely with Market Strategy, Sales, Product, Energy and Site Selection to surface early opportunities, shape customer and partner engagement, and help regions win faster through better intelligence and ecosystem alignment. BD does not replace the functions that execute leases, procure energy, select sites or run product strategy.

BD is a lean, external-facing team that connects Vantage to the evolving AI infrastructure ecosystem and routes intelligence and opportunities to the right internal teams.

Global Account Management (GAM) Support Team: Recognizing the importance of our global clientele, the GAM Support team is designed to offer tailored support to our largest customers, both internal and external. This team aims to provide a cohesive approach to managing global accounts by aligning internal resources with customer needs, enhancing executive visibility on global opportunities and challenges, and fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders.

We are refining the team's structure to maximize effectiveness and support for global account management.

Position Overview

The Director, Business Development - North America role will be responsible for the defined BD activities within their region as part of a global, integrated team. This role focuses on building and managing relationships with chip suppliers, OEMs, integrators, neoclouds and hyperscalers' chip teams to identify early demand signals, secure intelligence, and originate qualified opportunities. The Director will bring the BD remit to life regionally by acting as an advanced "early detection" function that strengthens regional execution without duplicating Sales, Product, or Site Selection.

This is a senior, externally facing, relationship-driven role requiring deep commercial instincts, ecosystem awareness, cross-functional coordination, and the ability to surface insights ahead of the market. The Director will translate ecosystem trends into actionable opportunity paths and ensure intelligence flows seamlessly into Market Strategy and Sales.

Essential Job Functions

Ecosystem Engagement and Intelligence

• Build and manage senior relationships with Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon, Broadcom, Groq, Huawei, and regionally relevant OEMs and integrators.

• Maintain a structured cadence with chip demand planners and ecosystem decision makers to improve visibility into allocation cycles, reference designs and deployment roadmaps.

• Track and interpret emerging models (TPUs, ASIC platforms, rack-scale designs) and assess their impact on customer demand, regional market dynamics and Vantage positioning.

Opportunity Identification and Early Influence

• Identify and qualify early-stage AI Factory and advanced compute…