Economic Development Manager

Meta

$120K — $145K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years in state and local taxes and economic incentives
  • Experience in financial analysis and project management
  • Demonstrated AI tools integration skills
  • Experience in implementing ethical AI practices
  • Ongoing development of AI skills
  • Experience in coordinating teams and consultants

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and present performance reports to management
  • Collaborate with internal teams like design, legal, and finance
  • Analyze investment and employment data for site selection
  • Maintain compliance programs for global data center assets
  • Conduct due diligence on economic programs and tax laws
  • Build cost models for tax and incentive comparisons
  • Partner with economic managers for site selection materials
  • Travel domestically as needed

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at a leading tech company
  • Engagement in innovative data center projects
  • Collaboration with diverse internal teams
  • Potential for career advancement in economic development
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools and resources
Full Job Description
Meta designs, builds, leases and operates the most innovative and efficient data centers in the world. Locating, developing and managing this data center infrastructure is synonymous with ensuring high uptime, capacity availability, flexibility and capital and operational cost efficiency. Meta is seeking an experienced, organized and proactive Asset Manager to join the Data Center Economic Development team.This position will play a key role in Meta's data center site selection activities by completing tax and economic incentive diligence and managing compliance efforts for new and expanding regions.

Responsibilities

Prepare and present monthly, quarterly and annual reports to management related to property and portfolio performance in regards to budget, internal and external benchmarks, and established goals.
• Interface with internal organizations including data center design, construction, legal, payroll, finance, accounting and tax.
• Gather and analyze investment and employment related data to drive decisions for future site selection efforts and complete compliance obligations for existing regions.
• Maintain and optimize data center incentive compliance program for global portfolio of data center assets.
• Complete diligence relating to economic development programs as well as state and local tax laws for new and existing data center regions.
• Build and maintain cost models that compare taxes and economic incentives in new and existing data center regions.
• Partner with economic development managers to prepare internal and external summary materials needed for ongoing site selection efforts.
• Work cross-functionally to understand the project parameters needed to support data center economic development discussions.
• Ability to travel domestically (up to 25% a month) as project needs require.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience in state and local taxes and economic incentives
• Financial analysis and project management experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 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
• Experience coordinating internal staff and consultants
• Proven precise communication skills

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