Prologis, Inc

Director, Data Center Investments

Prologis, Inc$155K — $200K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 7 years in commercial real estate, focusing on industrial and complex projects, preferably data centers.
  • Strong financial and strategic business case development for data center and infrastructure investments.
  • Experience evaluating real estate opportunities based on power, time-to-power, connectivity, and customer demand.
  • Proficient in managing relationships with hyperscalers and key data center clients.
  • Skilled in coordinating across diverse teams like real estate, energy, investment, and technology.

Responsibilities

  • Lead identification of prime infill properties for data center opportunities.
  • Create repeatable frameworks for warehouse retrofitting and edge capacity development.
  • Address barriers to site energization and collaborate on alternative power solutions.
  • Forge strategic relationships with hyperscalers to gauge infrastructure needs over 5–10 years.
  • Convert customer requirements into actionable real estate and development strategies.
  • Collaborate with Prologis Ventures on innovative technologies and infrastructure delivery.
  • Coordinate across multiple teams for developing business cases and project execution.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle-specific benefits.
  • 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 12% of eligible compensation.
  • Generous PTO, starting with 22 days annually, plus holidays and volunteer time.
Full Job Description

Job Title:

Director, Data Center Investments

Company:

Prologis

A day in the life

The Director, Data Center Investments will lead the strategy for unlocking data center, edge, and inference opportunities across Prologis’ infill portfolio, with a focus on converting strategically located real estate into viable powered capacity in supply-constrained markets. This role will build repeatable models for traditional infill data centers, edge deployments, and warehouse retrofit opportunities by working across real estate, energy, customer strategy, technology, investment, and regional teams. The Director will also develop strategic relationships with hyperscalers and other priority customers to understand evolving infrastructure and inference needs and translate those priorities into portfolio opportunities. The role will help establish disciplined frameworks for investment, energization, customer-backed development, and speculative capacity decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

•  Lead the identification and prioritization of infill properties and markets where Prologis’ existing footprint can support differentiated data center, edge, or inference opportunities, using consistent site evaluation criteria across power, time-to-power, connectivity, zoning, infrastructure, customer demand, economics, and execution complexity.

•  Develop repeatable warehouse retrofit, edge capacity, and underwriting playbooks, including decision frameworks that balance speculative development with build-to-suit commitments and identify opportunities to aggregate nearby assets into larger infrastructure, power, or network solutions.

•  Diagnose barriers to energizing priority sites and partner with the Prologis Energy team to evaluate alternative power solutions, including onsite generation, storage, microgrids, private infrastructure, and emerging technologies, while building investment cases for required infrastructure expenditures.

•  Develop strategic relationships with hyperscalers and other priority data center customers to understand long-term infrastructure requirements and assess how AI inference, edge computing, latency, power density, and evolving technology architectures may shape demand over the next 5–10 years.

•  Translate customer priorities into actionable opportunities across Prologis’ land, warehouse portfolio, and development pipeline, supporting executive-level customer engagement and identifying when to create capacity ahead of demand versus alongside committed requirements.

•  Partner with Prologis Ventures to evaluate technologies, business models, emerging companies, pilots, partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, and other commercial structures that could accelerate or differentiate data center and edge infrastructure delivery.

•  Coordinate across Data Centers, Ventures, Development, Investment, Energy, Operations, Capital Deployment, and regional teams to develop financial and strategic business cases and move opportunities from concept through execution using repeatable standards and decision frameworks.

Building blocks for success

Required:

  • A minimum 7 year track record of acquiring and developing commercial real estate with a focus on industrial and complex projects. Data center development experience preferred.
  • Ability to develop financial and strategic business cases for data center, edge, warehouse conversion, infrastructure, and customer-backed investment opportunities.
  • Ability to evaluate real estate opportunities using factors including power, time-to-power, connectivity, zoning, infrastructure requirements, customer demand, economics, and execution complexity.
  • Ability to develop and manage strategic relationships with hyperscalers and other priority data center customers.
  • Ability to coordinate complex opportunities across real estate, energy, investment, technology, operations, development, and regional stakeholders.

Preferred:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Management, Architecture, Engineering, Economics, or related field.
  • Experience evaluating data center, edge computing, inference, or warehouse retrofit opportunities.
  • Experience assessing power and infrastructure solutions for supply-constrained sites.
  • Experience evaluating partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, emerging technologies, or other commercial structures that support infrastructure delivery.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrates willingness and capability to leverage emerging technology, automation, and AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and speed. Exercises sound judgment, creative thinking, and accountability for outcomes.

Hiring Salary Range of: $155,000 - $200,000. Salary and whole compensation package (bonus target & LTI) to be determined by the candidate’s location, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

#LI-TA1

All full-time roles in the US come with a robust benefits package which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents. Prologis also offers several other wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle-specific benefits. Our 401(k) retirement plan has a company match of 50% up to 12% of eligible compensation. We also offer generous PTO with a starting accrual of 22 days a year in addition to paid holidays and volunteer time. 

Employment Type:

Full time

Location:

San Francisco, California

Additional Locations:

About Prologis, Inc

Prologis, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in logistics real estate. The company is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. Prologis leases modern distribution facilities to a diverse base of approximately 5,500 customers across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment.
Learn more about Prologis, Inc
Size
2,053 employees
Market Cap
$104.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.4 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+13.4%
Revenue
$4.4 billion
NASDAQ

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