Senior Data Center Acquisition Manager

About the role

AMD’s Corporate Development and Data Center Strategy organization is seeking an experienced data center acquisition and investment professional to source, evaluate, structure, and execute transactions that expand AMD’s access to AI infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of corporate strategy, real estate and infrastructure investment, commercial negotiation, and financial structuring. The Senior Data Center Acquisition and Investments Manager will lead opportunities from market screening and diligence through investment approval, agreement execution, and portfolio monitoring. The role will work with data center developers, operators, cloud service providers, neoclouds, capital providers, utilities, and local jurisdictions to secure scalable, cost-effective capacity while protecting AMD’s commercial and financial interests.

The Person

The ideal candidate is a commercially rigorous, results-driven professional with strong data center transaction, investment analysis, and financial modeling capabilities. This person can translate technical, market, legal, and financial inputs into a clear investment recommendation; negotiate effectively in complex situations; and maintain momentum across multiple high-visibility transactions. The successful candidate communicates crisply with senior executives and thrives in a fast-moving, global environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the sourcing, evaluation, structuring, negotiation, and execution of data center capacity transactions, including colocation leases, powered-shell and build-to-suit arrangements, development partnerships, direct real estate acquisitions, and strategic investments.
• Develop transaction strategies and negotiate letters of intent, leases, development agreements, purchase agreements, exclusivity arrangements, credit support structures, and related commercial terms in partnership with Legal and Finance.
• Build and review detailed financial models using NPV, IRR, ROI, TCO, cash flow, sensitivity, and scenario analyses to compare alternatives and support capital allocation decisions.
• Prepare investment committee and executive approval materials that clearly articulate strategic rationale, valuation, economics, key risks, mitigations, and recommended terms.
• Conduct commercial and real estate diligence across site control, title, permitting, development schedule, power availability and deliverability, fiber connectivity, construction readiness, counterparty capability, and operating requirements.
• Assess counterparties, capital structures, financing plans, and credit strength; identify execution risks and recommend contractual, financial, or structural protections.
• Partner closely with Legal, Finance, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Government Affairs to align transaction requirements and meet decision and delivery timelines.
• Conduct market scans and competitive analyses to identify