Principal, Delivery Lead, North America (Construction)

About the role

Join the Delivery team at Ada Infrastructure, a global data center business committed to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. As part of the digital infrastructure platform of Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a leading global alternative investment manager, you will be part of a deeply experienced and high-performing team with the ability to directly impact and contribute to Ada’s development program.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the North America delivery strategy across all U.S. campuses, from pre-construction handoff through commissioning and turnover to operations
• Lead, manage, and develop a high performing regional delivery team, including internal leaders and augmented third party resources
• Establish and continuously refine delivery governance, processes, controls, and reporting standards to enable scalable execution across multiple markets
• Maintain full accountability for regional CAPEX performance, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost controls
• Provide clear, executive level reporting on portfolio status, risks, opportunities, and performance metrics including project level cost analysis, budget/estimating insight, and cost driver transparency
• Oversee regional contractor and vendor strategies, including MSAs, GPAs, SOWs, and contractor qualification
• Drive execution excellence with Design team across CSA and MEP intensive construction programs, ensuring constructability, schedule integrity, and quality outcomes
• Identify and mitigate program level risks, including schedule, supply chain, labor, permitting, and power delivery constraints
• Collaborate with the Development, Design and Project Controls teams to identify cost optimization opportunities and Incorporate prefabrication, modularization, and alternate delivery strategies to improve speed, cost certainty, and scalability
• Champion a proactive safety culture across all sites, embedding safety as a baseline expectation, leading by example, and ensuring safety is treated as a core value rather than a compliance driven exercise
• Partner with EHS and ESG leadership to ensure delivery outcomes align with Ada’s sustainability and environmental commitments
• Act as the senior Delivery interface for North America with customers, hyperscalers, and strategic partners and support Sales in leasing pursuits through customer engagement, construction related RFP responses, and delivery commitments
• Ensure consistent and accurate use of delivery systems (e.g., Procore, Primavera P6) as sources of truth across the region
• Foster a collaborative, high accountability culture that encourages continuous improvement and shared learning through coordination with parallel delivery leaders across the globe and Incorporating lessons learned campus to campus and phase to phase

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Engineering, or related discipline; equivalent experience considered
• 15+ years of experience delivering large-scale, capital-intensive construction programs, with 10+ years in senior leadership roles
• Extensive experience delivering mission critical or data center infrastructure required
• Deep expertise in CSA and MEP construction, construction means and methods, and delivery models
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including CAPEX management, contract strategy, and risk allocation
• Executive presence with the ability to influence internally and externally at the LT and customer level
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, growth-oriented environments with evolving priorities

Benefits

Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit. Additional benefits include access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.

Pay

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $250,000.00 - $275,000.00. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus.

Schedule

This role is expected to have 30-50% travel which may evolve over time, working with teams across all sites, and manufacturers and vendors as required.