Energy Operations Manager, Data Centers

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Austin, TX +2

This role focuses on the operational energy management of Meta's global data center portfolio, ensuring reliable, cost-effective, and operationally sound energy supply. It involves managing utility interconnections, power procurement, on-site generation, and compliance. The role requires experience in energy operations, utility account management, and power systems. While not directly building AI, the role is expected to integrate and utilize AI tools for workflow optimization and demonstrate ongoing AI skill development and adherence to ethical AI practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build foundational relationships with key partners in order to drive operational excellence, risk management, and financial rigor in the energy space
  2. Track and analyze energy consumption, demand profiles, and power usage effectiveness metrics across the data center portfolio to identify operational risks and optimization opportunities
  3. Coordinate with data center facilities teams, grid operators, and utility account managers to manage planned and unplanned outages, curtailment events, and demand response activations
  4. Monitor market developments developments affecting data center energy operations, assess commercial and compliance implications, and develop structured recommendations for leadership
  5. Collaborate with energy origination, finance, and accounting teams to reconcile utility invoices, validate energy settlement statements, and support budget-to-actual variance analysis

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in energy operations, utility account management, or power systems management with a large energy consumer, electric utility, grid operator, or data center operator
  • Experience managing utility service agreements, interconnection agreements, or power supply contracts including billing validation, compliance monitoring, and counterparty coordination
  • Experience analyzing energy consumption data, demand profiles, and utility tariff structures to identify operational risks and cost optimization opportunities
  • Working knowledge of electric utility regulatory frameworks, tariff structures, and grid interconnection processes sufficient to manage compliance obligations and engage with utility partners
  • Experience collaborating across facilities, finance, legal, and infrastructure teams to resolve energy supply issues and support capital project delivery
  • Familiarity with demand response program participation, behind-the-meter generation dispatch, and on-site renewable energy integration in a data center or industrial context
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Knowledge of resource adequacy requirements, capacity obligations, and grid reliability standards applicable to large commercial and industrial electricity customers
  • Experience with energy management systems, utility billing platforms, or operational reporting tools used to monitor and optimize large-scale power consumption
  • Experience supporting energy operations for hyperscale or large-scale data center campuses, including high-voltage substation coordination and critical load management

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows
  • responsible, ethical AI practices
  • ongoing AI skill development
  • emerging AI technologies