Microsoft

Principal Land Acquisition Manager - Powered Land

Microsoft$130K — $277K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field with 7+ years of relevant experience, or 10+ years equivalent experience.
  • Preferred Bachelor's degree in a related field with 10+ years of portfolio management or real estate experience, or 15+ years equivalent experience.
  • Strong stakeholder management abilities to influence senior leadership and external partners.
  • Extensive knowledge of site origination processes and contract negotiations.
  • Deep understanding of the due diligence process, including environmental and zoning assessments.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively identify and secure suitable sites for data center development with a focus on power proximity.
  • Negotiate complex land acquisition agreements and align with power purchase agreements (PPAs).
  • Develop strategies for optimizing grid interconnectivity discussing with utility providers and consultants.
  • Lead due diligence processes on potential sites, addressing environmental, zoning, and technical constraints.
  • Conduct market assessments to evaluate site viability and potential risks.

Benefits

  • Access to a diverse range of benefits including health, wellness, and professional development programs.
  • Opportunities for strategic growth within a leading technology company.
  • Collaborative work environment that values innovation and creativity.
  • Potential for flexible working arrangements and strong work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are seeking a Principal Land Acquisition Manager - Powered Land to lead the identification and securing of high-yield, "powered land" opportunities. In this role, you won't just be contracting land; you will be the architect of complex site entries, navigating the intersection of large-scale real estate, utility-scale power availability, and bespoke contractual frameworks.

The ideal candidate possesses a creative approach for site origination and a strategist's mind for structuring deals with partner teams that de-risk power delivery in increasingly constrained markets.

Responsibilities
  • Strategic Site Origination: Proactively identify and secure greenfield and brownfield sites suitable for hyperscale and colocation data center development, with a specific focus on "path of power" proximity.
  • Bespoke Contract Structuring: Lead the negotiation of complex site control agreements, including structured land acquisitions and options, alongside alignment with Microsoft Energy team inputs for power purchase agreements (PPAs) and interconnection agreements.
  • Grid Interconnectivity Strategy: Familiarity with utility providers and energy consultants to discuss transmission capacity, substation proximity, and queue timelines to ensure site viability.
  • Due Diligence Leadership: Knowledge of the end-to-end due diligence process, including environmental assessments, zoning/entitlement hurdles, and geotechnical constraints unique to high-density compute.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field, AND 7+ years relevant experience.
    • OR 10+ years equivalent experience.


Other Requirements:
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


While not required, we also look for the followingPreferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 10+ years portfolio management, real estate, or office management experience OR 15+ years equivalent experience.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across senior leadership, external partners, and government agencies.


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Real Estate Portfolio Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900.00 - $277,200.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600.00 - $303,600.00 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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