AI Campus - Business Development & Leasing Lead

Onni Group

$125K — $175K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3 to 6 years of commercial experience in AI infrastructure, hyperscaler GTM, edge computing, or related fields.
  • Fluency in AI workloads vocabulary, including inference, training, and model serving economics.
  • Personal user of AI tools in daily work, demonstrating hands-on experience.
  • Proven track record of building a sales pipeline from scratch without an inherited client list.
  • Existing network among AI infrastructure buyers and hyperscaler real estate teams is preferred.
  • Comfort with high autonomy in a startup-like environment with direct access to decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute the commercial strategy for AI campus sites, targeting various customer segments.
  • Monitor the competitive landscape and inform positioning and product strategy based on market intelligence.
  • Establish relationships with network carriers and ecosystem partners to enhance campus offerings.
  • Act as the brand advocate at industry events and in written communications, shaping the narrative for the platform.
  • Drive leasing activities from initial prospect contact through to executed lease agreements.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the development of an innovative AI campus platform.
  • Autonomy to influence strategy and operations without layers of bureaucracy.
  • Engagement with a diverse network of AI and infrastructure partners.
  • Work in a dynamic, high-growth environment backed by a robust real estate developer.
  • Regular opportunities for travel and industry engagement.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

We are hiring our first AI Campus Lead - who will drive the marketing strategy and leasing activity for our integrated AI campus sites, promote opportunities to prospective customers, and help establish the commercial foundation that differentiates our platform from traditional colocation and hyperscale approaches. This role is the ground-floor commercial seat at a platform backed by a fully integrated real estate owner, developer, and operator.

About the platform

Our business model is distinct from both traditional hotel carrier/colocation facilities and hyperscale data center platforms. We are not simply providing standardized space and power for third-party tenants, nor are we pursuing the scale-driven model of large hyperscalers. Instead, we are building an AI campus strategy focused on creating an integrated environment designed specifically for AI infrastructure, users, and ecosystem partners.

Onni Mission Critical is the digital infrastructure division of Onni Group, one of North America's most active private real estate developers. Every site in the platform is 100% fee-simple owned - no landlord consent required - and integrated end-to-end across development, construction, and operations. The platform operates in partnership with AI-native infrastructure operators, under a structure that aligns real estate, capital, and operating expertise at each deployment.

600 Wilshire exemplifies this approach: a premium 292,000 square-foot office asset in downtown LA, repositioned as a connected AI campus with native inference and enterprise compute capability. It serves as the template for the next 130+ megawatts of portfolio deployment across LA, Seattle, Chicago, and additional markets - each site designed as an integrated AI ecosystem rather than commoditized data center space.

The role

Because this campus model depends on identifying prospects, structuring lease opportunities, and building the right market relationships to attract and secure tenants, we need an AI Campus Lead to drive leasing activity, promote the opportunity to prospective customers, and help establish the commercial foundation for the campus.

The AI Campus Lead owns the commercial development of the platform - from first prospect contact through executed lease. You are the person who can speak the language of AI infrastructure buyers on inference economics, deployment patterns, latency, and workload requirements, and who translates the campus value proposition into commercial relationships. This is an ecosystem-building role as much as it is a leasing role.

What you'll own

  • Campus development & leasing. Build and execute the commercial strategy for 600 Wilshire and subsequent AI campus sites, positioning each location's integrated AI infrastructure capability to target customers including hyperscalers, AI inference operators, enterprise infrastructure teams, and ecosystem partners.


  • Market intelligence. Track the competitive landscape - Digital Realty, Equinix, CoreSite, CoreWeave, Crusoe, and the hyperscaler build-to-suit market. Translate what you learn into positioning, pricing, and product decisions.


  • Partnership & ecosystem. Develop relationships with network carriers, interconnection providers, systems integrators, and AI platform partners whose presence at our sites strengthens the campus value proposition.


  • Brand voice. Be the platform's voice at industry events, on panels, and in long-form writing. Shape the narrative that positions Onni Mission Critical as the credible choice for urban edge AI infrastructure.


What we're looking for

  • 3 to 6 years of commercial experience in AI infrastructure, hyperscaler GTM, edge computing, data center leasing, or enterprise infrastructure sales.


  • Fluent in the vocabulary of AI workloads - inference versus training, model serving economics, token-level pricing, GPU utilization, latency budgets, and enterprise deployment patterns.


  • Personal user of AI tools in daily work. You don't sell what you don't use.


  • Demonstrated ability to build pipeline from zero - sourcing, qualifying, and moving accounts through stages without inheriting a book of business.


  • Existing network among AI infrastructure buyers, hyperscaler real estate teams, or enterprise CIOs strongly preferred. Relationships at CoreWeave, Lambda, Together AI, Crusoe, AWS AI/ML, GCP AI, Azure AI, Cloudflare, Databricks, or frontier AI labs are particularly relevant.


  • Comfortable operating in a build-stage platform with direct ownership access - no bureaucracy, no cover, and no substitute for getting the meetings yourself.


  • Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate. Regular travel to Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and industry events expected.


Salary Range:

$125,000 - $175,000

How To Apply:

Please apply through the link on the job posting and attach your resume and any other required documents.

We thank all applicants for your interest in the Onni Group. Note that only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

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