Meta Platforms, Inc. designs, builds, and operates some of the most innovative and efficient data centers in the world. As Meta's infrastructure footprint scales to meet the demands of AI, the company's ability to build — quickly, durably, and with community support — has become one of its most consequential strategic dependencies. How Meta shows up in the communities where it operates is not a downstream communications exercise; it is central to whether Meta can build at all. Meta is seeking a highly experienced strategic leader to serve as a close partner to the Director of Community Engagement, supporting both the Community Engagement Team and a portfolio of company-level strategic initiatives in partnership with senior leadership. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who thinks several steps ahead, operates with significant independence, and earns standing with internal executives and external stakeholders alike. The Community Engagement Team is organized around Regional Leads and Community Engagement Managers who carry day-to-day relationships in Meta's data center markets. This role sits alongside that structure rather than within it — working horizontally across regions to bring pattern recognition, strategic framing, and enterprise perspective to the Director and to the Regional Leads themselves. The person in this role will be trusted to carry the Community Engagement Team's point of view into rooms where the Director cannot be, to help shape the team's strategic agenda rather than simply execute against it, and to translate ambiguous, high-stakes company priorities into engagement strategy that holds up across dozens of markets and multiple years. They will spend as much time upstream — framing problems, testing assumptions, pressure-testing thinking — as they do downstream driving execution.

Qualifications:

11+ years of relevant experience in public affairs, government relations, communications, community engagement, economic development, political strategy, or senior advisory roles Bachelor's degree in public policy, communications, public affairs, political science, business, or equivalent practical experience Experience serving as a strategic partner or principal advisor to a senior executive, elected official, or organizational leader, including experience representing that leader's position in their absence Experience helping shape strategy at portfolio or enterprise scale, not solely executing programs within a defined strategy Experience operating at the intersection of policy and communications, with proven ability to develop and drive strategy in both domains Experience working effectively with regionally distributed teams, including influencing and supporting colleagues who do not report to you Experience influencing senior executives and driving decisions without direct authority across 5+ functions Experience leading in ambiguous, high-consequence situations where precedent does not exist and the path must be defined Experience with state and local policy, legislative, regulatory, and permitting processes Experience handling highly confidential information and navigating politically sensitive environments with discretion Demonstrated excellence in executive-level written communication — memos, briefings, and narrative documents that drive decisions Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements) Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews) Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies Experience at a technology, energy, or infrastructure company navigating large-scale siting, expansion, or community relations at national scale Data center, energy generation, transmission, or large-scale infrastructure development experience Senior background in state or federal government, a governor's office, utility regulation, or statewide economic development Fluency in energy procurement, grid reliability, interconnection, and sustainability narratives as they relate to AI-era data center growth Established senior relationships with elected officials, utility leadership, or economic development organizations across multiple data center markets Experience building an operating function or capability from an early or undefined state Master of Public Administration, Master of Business Administration, Master of Public Policy, or Juris Doctor