Director, Capital Planning

About the Company

At QTS Data Centers, we stand at the forefront of today’s dynamic digital transformation. Our world-class data centers empower customers’ strategic growth initiatives, positioning us as a global leader in digital infrastructure. As AI and cloud technologies drive demand for increased speed, capacity, and innovation, QTS leads the way in connecting the globe for good. We design, build, and operate advanced data centers worldwide, integrating sustainability and renewable energy to minimize environmental impact. Backed by Blackstone, QTS is uniquely positioned to achieve ambitious growth and innovation goals.

Our team members are the cornerstone of our culture, innovation, and growth. Together, we shape the future of digital infrastructure and invite you to join us.

Benefits

• Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting
• Bonus or commission eligibility for every employee
• Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Days, and Floating Holidays
• Stock Purchase Plan (SPP)
• 11 paid Holidays Annually, with holiday compensation when worked
• Pet and Legal Insurance
• Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
• Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
• Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Military Benefits Package
• QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
• QTS Scholarship for Employee Dependents
• QTS Crisis Fund
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

About the Role

The Director, Capital Planning is a strategic leader responsible for shaping and coordinating the enterprise capital planning process across QTS's development portfolio. This role translates business growth priorities, project realities, and cross-functional inputs into a coherent, decision-ready view of capital needs, risks, and trade-offs for executive leadership. Operating within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework, this position partners across Real Estate, Power, Supply Chain, Construction Delivery, Finance, and Project Controls to ensure capital plans are grounded in execution realities and aligned to enterprise priorities.

The Director brings an institutional-quality lens to capital planning, improving allocation discipline, investment visibility, and governance rigor across a large, fast-scaling portfolio. This role provides strategic leadership in capital planning, translating enterprise priorities into actionable outputs while shaping processes, capabilities, and cross-functional alignment to support long-term growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and coordination of the enterprise capital plan, consolidating inputs across demand, real estate, power, supply chain, and delivery teams into a decision-ready capital outlook.
• Drive portfolio-level analysis of capital timing, prioritization, and trade-offs to support disciplined investment decisions and executive planning discussions.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to validate assumptions, surface risks, and improve visibility into capital drivers, constraints, and execution impacts.
• Prepare and frame capital planning materials for executive leadership, governance forums, and other decision-making bodies, clearly articulating changes, drivers, and implications.
• Strengthen capital planning governance by improving data integrity, analytical consistency, and alignment between project-level requests and enterprise-level plans.
• Lead scenario-based analysis for executives to evaluate capital deployment decisions under changing business conditions, portfolio priorities, and execution constraints.
• Develop and mentor team members while establishing scalable standards, processes, and governance disciplines for the Capital Planning function.
• Serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership by translating complex capital data into clear insights that improve confidence in enterprise planning and investment decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Real Estate, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in capital planning, development finance, strategic planning, portfolio analytics, or related disciplines.
• Experience supporting executive decision-making, governance processes, and cross-functional planning within a capital-intensive environment.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling capabilities, with the ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear business recommendations.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including experience leading teams, influencing across matrixed organizations, or building new planning disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in data center development, real estate, infrastructure, energy, or other asset-intensive industries.
• Familiarity with integrated business planning, capital governance frameworks, and multi-year portfolio planning.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with an institutional investor mindset in evaluating capital deployment, risk, and portfolio trade-offs.

Skills

• Ability to evaluate capital decisions through a strategic, risk-adjusted, and enterprise value lens.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, align competing priorities, and drive decisions across highly matrixed teams.
• Ability to build scalable processes, improve governance, and raise analytical rigor in a fast-growing organization.