Strategic Transactions Lead

Fluidstack

$150K — $180K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in transaction management, specifically in commercial real estate or large-scale infrastructure sourcing.
  • Track record of closing complex, multi-party deals efficiently under tight timelines.
  • Strong negotiation skills with hands-on familiarity with term sheets and definitive agreements.
  • Proven cross-functional program management experience, adept at coordinating multiple departments.
  • Experience in designing and running competitive sourcing processes with tradeoff considerations.
  • Exceptional communication skills to articulate complex issues to executives and partners.
  • Meticulous attention to detail with well-established organizational habits.

Responsibilities

  • Lead transactions from letter of intent to signature, aligning internal approvals and commercial terms.
  • Negotiate deal terms at various stages, ensuring balance among speed, risk, and cost.
  • Act as the primary contact for internal teams and external partners, ensuring clear communication and decision-making.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive deal plans outlining milestones, risks, and dependencies.
  • Create templates and playbooks for procurement processes to streamline operations.
  • Facilitate a smooth transition of signed agreements into operational deployment.
  • Support the handoff process to ensure operational readiness aligns with contract stipulations.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including salary and equity options.
  • Retirement or pension plans aligned with local standards.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance benefits.
  • Generous paid time off policy matching local norms.
Full Job Description
How We Operate
  • Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
  • Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
The Commercial Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Close gigawatt deals faster than anyone on the planet. The customers building frontier AI need capacity now, and the ones who lock it first win. You'll take deals from first conversation to signature at a pace the market can't match.
  • Sign 50+ GW of deals by the end of the decade. Every deal is measured in gigawatts, not megawatts, and the goal is to sign more capacity this decade than anyone in the market.
  • Own everything from LOI to site mobilization. No handoffs, no dropped context. You'll run the whole process, from a signed LOI through to mobilizing the site, and keep it moving the entire way.
Role Scope
  • Close billion-dollar transactions from LOI to signature in weeks across leases, colocation deals, EPC contracts, and utility commitments.
  • Quarterback every deal across legal, finance, engineering, networking, and construction with 15+ stakeholders and 5+ workstreams running in parallel.
  • Run the daily operating rhythm of syncs, decisions, escalations, and tracker updates that keeps every workstream aligned and surfaces issues weeks before they hit the schedule.
  • Operate with full trust from the CEO and senior leadership, making commitments on Fluidstack's behalf in rooms where the company's roadmap is being set.
  • Hand off signed agreements to delivery, deployment, and construction teams cleanly with no dropped terms and no surprises six months in.
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 personally closed complex, multi-party deals where the precedent didn't exist and the playbook is something you wrote.
  • You've negotiated commercial terms against counterparties who don't share your urgency: utilities, EPCs, AHJs, design firms, customers.
  • You quarterback across legal, finance, engineering, and operations without losing momentum, and you're the person other teams call when a deal is stuck.
  • You write and speak clearly enough to distill a complex issue into a decision and a next step for a CEO, a counterparty, or a customer.
  • Deal tracking, documentation, and process discipline are habits, not afterthoughts. You don't lose terms in the noise of a 20-thread deal.
  • Bonus: Data center capacity deals (colo, powered shell, build-to-suit, wholesale, leases). AI infrastructure constraints. Utility and power market dynamics. EPC and design-firm contract structures.
Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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