Economic Development Manager

Meta

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of expertise in state and local taxes and economic incentives
  • Experience in financial analysis and project management
  • Proven ability to integrate AI tools for workflow optimization
  • Experience with responsible AI practices, including risk assessment and bias mitigation
  • Ongoing development in AI skills and awareness of emerging technologies
  • Ability to effectively coordinate teams and consultants

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and present performance reports to management regarding property status and goals
  • Collaborate with various internal teams, including legal and finance
  • Analyze data to inform future site selection and compliance efforts
  • Manage compliance for the data center incentive program globally
  • Conduct diligence on economic development programs and tax laws
  • Build cost models comparing incentives across various regions
  • Create summary materials for internal and external communications on site selection

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
  • Dynamic work environment fostering innovation
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and methodologies
  • Potential for travel to diverse locations as part of site selection initiatives
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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