Vice President, Electrical Engineering

THE COMPANY

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:

The Vice President, Electrical Engineering is responsible for the leadership, technical direction, organizational development, and execution of the Electrical Engineering function. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, this role provides dedicated leadership for the Electrical Engineering organization while partnering closely with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, Controls, Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, and other key stakeholders.

The VP, Electrical Engineering serves as the senior electrical engineering leader responsible for ensuring electrical infrastructure designs are safe, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, constructible, and aligned with company standards, client requirements, project objectives, and operational needs.

This position combines strong technical leadership with organizational and people leadership. The VP is accountable not only for electrical engineering quality and technical decisions, but also for building and developing the Electrical Engineering team, managing resources and priorities, driving standardization, supporting project delivery, and establishing clear accountability across the electrical discipline.

The VP will also serve as a senior client-facing technical representative for Electrical Engineering and must be capable of independently leading technical discussions with clients, communicating complex engineering concepts and design decisions, understanding client requirements, and resolving technical issues while appropriately balancing client expectations with company standards, project requirements, and business objectives. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Organizational & People Leadership

• Lead the Electrical Engineering organization and provide clear accountability, direction, priorities, and expectations across the team.

• Manage, mentor, and develop electrical engineering leaders and individual contributors.

• Establish organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority appropriate to the scale and needs of the business.

• Develop technical and leadership capabilities within the Electrical Engineering team and establish succession plans for critical roles.

• Conduct resource and capacity planning based on the project pipeline, workload, and business priorities.

• Identify staffing needs and lead recruiting, onboarding, development, and retention of electrical engineering talent.

• Establish annual objectives and performance expectations aligned with Engineering and company priorities.

• Build a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ownership.

Electrical Engineering Leadership

• Serve as the senior discipline leader for electrical engineering and provide technical direction across the project portfolio.

• Provide oversight of electrical infrastructure architecture, including utility interfaces, substations, medium- and low-voltage distribution, generators, UPS systems, energy storage where applicable, grounding, protection, controls interfaces, and associated critical electrical infrastructure.

• Provide leadership and technical guidance for major electrical design decisions, deviations, risks, and escalations.

• Ensure electrical designs appropriately address reliability, redundancy, maintainability, safety, constructability, operability, cost, and schedule.

• Establish appropriate technical review and approval processes for electrical engineering deliverables.

• Ensure electrical engineering decisions are documented, communicated, and implemented consistently across projects.

• Provide senior-level technical support for complex project issues and significant field or operational challenges.

Client & External Engagement

• Serve as a senior client-facing technical representative for Electrical Engineering.

• Lead client meetings, technical workshops, design reviews, and engineering alignment sessions.

• Present and clearly communicate electrical system architecture, basis of design, technical requirements, design decisions, risks, deviations, and proposed solutions to clients.

• Understand and evaluate client technical requirements and ensure they are appropriately incorporated into project designs.

• Work directly with clients to resolve technical differences while maintaining alignment with company standards, project requirements, commercial commitments, and operational objectives.

• Provide technical leadership during client due diligence, project development, design, construction, commissioning, and other project phases as required.

• Develop trusted relationships with client engineering and leadership teams and serve as a primary escalation point for significant electrical engineering matters.

• Represent the company professionally with clients, utilities, engineering consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and other external stakeholders.

• Escalate significant technical, commercial, or relationship risks to the SVP of Engineering and other leadership as appropriate.

Standards & Technical Governance

• Own and maintain electrical engineering design standards, criteria, specifications, and technical requirements.

• Drive standardization and repeatability while allowing appropriate flexibility for site, utility, jurisdictional, client, and project-specific requirements.

• Lead evaluation and implementation of new electrical technologies, equipment, architectures, and design approaches.

• Establish governance for deviations from established electrical standards and ensure appropriate technical and business evaluation.

• Incorporate lessons learned from design, construction, commissioning, and operations into future standards and designs.

• Partner with other Engineering disciplines to ensure coordinated and integrated design requirements.

• Maintain awareness of applicable codes, regulations, industry standards, utility requirements, and emerging industry practices.

Project & Portfolio Execution

• Provide electrical engineering leadership across projects from early development and conceptual design through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover to Operations.

• Establish priorities and allocate Electrical Engineering resources across the portfolio based on business and project requirements.

• Monitor electrical engineering deliverables, technical decisions, risks, and critical milestones.

• Ensure timely resolution of electrical engineering issues that could impact project cost, schedule, quality, reliability, or operations.

• Support project teams in evaluating technical alternatives and balancing engineering requirements with commercial and schedule considerations.

• Participate in design reviews and project governance at appropriate project stages.

• Ensure appropriate electrical engineering support is provided during construction, commissioning, energization, and turnover.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, and Controls leadership under the SVP of Engineering to ensure integrated multidisciplinary engineering solutions.

• Collaborate with Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Commercial, and other business functions throughout the project lifecycle.

• Support Procurement in technical evaluations, equipment strategi