Asset Management Analyst, Origination supports the front end of Cipher's asset lifecycle - land and parcel diligence, entitlements, and technical and environmental feasibility. The role maintains front-end pipeline visibility and supports site selection and acquisition decisions.
Responsibilities - Support parcel diligence and option / lease-to-own evaluation.
- Coordinate technical and environmental studies as part of site feasibility.
- Support front-end origination alongside Business Development and Legal, providing operational context for due diligence and feasibility.
- Track entitlements and permitting across the portfolio and pipeline.
- Monitor diligence timelines and flag risks to critical-path items (studies, approvals, permits).
- Maintain organized diligence records, checklists, and per-site data repositories.
- Flag power and interconnection considerations and communicate action items to responsible teams.
- Package diligence findings into a site summary for review and origination decisions.
- Support handoff from origination into development as a site advances.
Qualifications Required- 2-4 years in in real estate development, infrastructure, energy, or transactional diligence.
- Hands-on diligence experience - title, survey, zoning, environmental, or entitlement review.
- Comfort coordinating third-party studies and consultants for the land and entitlement processes and technical and environmental studies.
- Able to track timelines across multiple sites and flag critical-path risks proactively.
- Clear written communication - can package diligence findings into a concise site summary for decision-makers.
Preferred- Data center development exposure specifically.
- Experience across a multi-site portfolio or pipeline, rather than a single-asset.
Scope/Boundaries- Owns: front-end diligence execution and feasibility coordination - parcel and site diligence, technical and environmental studies, entitlements and permitting tracking, diligence records and per-site repositories, and the site-summary packaging that moves a site toward development-readiness.
- Partners with:Business Development, Legal and land consultants.
- Does not own:deal negotiations, financial models or underwriting, power and interconnection (flags and routes, does not own).
Benefits* - 401K Retirement Plan with match
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- And other perks!
*Full Time Employees
