Capacity Strategy & Planning Manager

Meta is seeking a leader to join the Capacity Planning Optimization Engineering team to drive our infrastructure capacity planning process design and execution. You will build and execute optimized infrastructure capacity planning processes covering all of Meta, in one of our largest transformations of how we plan and manage infrastructure capacity. This hands-on leadership role interfaces with executive leadership to balance business and product capacity objectives with infrastructure and financial constraints.

This highly cross-functional role involves collaboration with engineering and business teams across Meta’s products and services (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.), physical infrastructure (servers, data centers, network), and product business goals (AI, Metaverse, etc.). You will optimize capacity plans at the strategic level, with outputs used by CxO leadership for key infrastructure and business decisions, as well as providing execution guidance for infrastructure and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure capacity planning for all of Meta, including software products/services and scaling server and data center resources efficiently.
• Build, own, and execute cohesive end-to-end Integrated Planning processes and methodologies across Strategic, Tactical/Operations, and Execution horizons.
• Align requirements and expectations across technical and business functions.
• Design and build company-wide transformational Planning programs, strategies, and methodologies to scale Meta’s infrastructure efficiently.
• Partner with Finance and business teams to balance cost efficiency with technical and product considerations.
• Manage unplanned emergent capacity requirements across all horizons in a constrained environment.
• Develop decision scenarios and trade-offs to drive multi-billion dollar infrastructure decisions at the highest levels of the organization.
• Own the communications strategy for planning processes and decisions, including executive-level updates.
• Use technical judgment and experience to contribute to tools and technology strategy for Planning.
• Work cross-functionally to define problem statements, collect data, and make recommendations to drive change and optimization at the company level.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 16+ years of experience in Infrastructure/Cloud/Hardware with a background in Strategy, Capacity Planning, Supply Chain Optimization, or technology strategy consulting.
• Experience leading enterprise-level Planning processes with frequent executive interaction.
• Ability to distill complex data and high ambiguity into actionable insights and recommendations for executive decision-making.
• Business acumen with experience forming and refining hypotheses into actionable analysis and recommendations.
• Problem-solving and strategy skills, including expansive opportunity identification and framing of complex/ambiguous problems.
• Experience completing multiple cloud, infrastructure, or hardware optimization projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
• Ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
• Direct experience building "zero to one" Infrastructure Planning processes at a hyperscaler.

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. From the launch of Facebook in 2004 to apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta has empowered billions worldwide. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to shape the next evolution in social technology.

Pay

$202,000/year to $273,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Benefits

Meta offers comprehensive benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.