Community Engagement Lead

Fluidstack

• $110K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in public affairs or community relations roles
  • Experience as an external representative for large infrastructure projects
  • Proven ability to manage diverse stakeholder relationships under pressure
  • Skilled in identifying political or reputational risks early
  • Excellent communication skills for varied audiences including local officials and nonprofit leaders
  • Experience managing external partners like lobbyists and PR firms
  • Bonus: Background in hyperscale or AI data center projects, with knowledge of energy or environmental issues

Responsibilities

  • Represent Fluidstack at town hall meetings, public hearings, and community events
  • Build and maintain relationships with elected officials, community organizations, and stakeholders
  • Identify potential organized opposition and surface risks early in project development
  • Deploy community benefit initiatives such as local hiring and educational partnerships
  • Manage external consultants and lobbyists across multiple active site campaigns

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Engagement in projects that drive community benefit
  • Diverse working environment with a focus on collaboration
  • Flexible working arrangements
Full Job Description
The Public Affairs Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Shape the policy and regulations that make or break the industry. State and local rules on power, land, and permitting can open a market or close it. You'll track legislation and regulatory shifts, brief leadership on political risk, and work to shape outcomes in our favor before they turn into blockers.
  • Turn neighbors and officials into advocates. You'll be the face of Fluidstack in town halls, hearings, and planning commissions, building the relationships that move projects forward and heading off opposition before it can stall them.
  • Win the communities the build depends on, because the US has to win. Whoever deploys frontier compute fastest decides whether AI expands freedom or shrinks it, and every site sits in a community that can speed it up or stall it for years. You'll earn that trust before the first shovel hits the ground.
Role Scope
  • Represent Fluidstack at town halls, public hearings, planning commission meetings, and community events as the primary external face across active development sites.
  • Build and hold relationships across a wide stakeholder matrix: elected officials, city and county staff, utility partners, school districts, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, and trade associations.
  • Identify and get ahead of organized opposition before capital is committed, surfacing reputational, regulatory, and political risk in coordination with Development, Legal, and Commercial teams.
  • Deploy community benefit commitments, including local hiring programs, educational partnerships, and grants, and write communications materials that translate infrastructure complexity into clear narratives for community, government, and executive audiences.
  • Manage external partners, including lobbyists, consultants, and PR agencies, across multiple concurrent site campaigns.
What We're Looking For
  • The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've been the named external face for a large infrastructure project, fielding opposition at public hearings and building coalitions that got something built.
  • You've managed a stakeholder map with genuine competing interests, elected officials, regulators, community organizations, utilities, and kept relationships functional under pressure.
  • You spot political or reputational risk early enough to do something about it, and you've changed a project outcome by catching something before it organized into opposition.
  • You write and speak clearly enough to make a complex infrastructure story land with a city council member, a local nonprofit, and a CEO in the same week.
  • You've directly managed lobbyists, PR firms, or political consultants: set the brief, held them accountable, and stepped in when they weren't moving fast enough.
  • You're comfortable on the road; this role requires sustained presence at active sites, not periodic visits.
  • Bonus: Hyperscale or AI data center development experience. Energy procurement or grid interconnection communications. Sustainability or environmental permitting narratives.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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