Position Title: Sr. Director, Hyperscale Development &amp; Leasing Location: Boston, MA; Dallas, TX; Austin, TX ; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA Your role As Sr. Director, Hyperscale Development &amp; Leasing, you will lead hyperscale lease transactions and renewals across U.S., EMEA, and APAC markets for global account customers, driving deals with a minimum size of 20 MW. This role blends commercial leasing execution, development oversight, and portfolio stewardship with a critical mandate to align outcomes to fund and JV performance goals. You will serve as a trusted partner to internal leaders, investors, and joint venture stakeholders to ensure projects deliver on underwriting assumptions and return objectives.What you’ll do <ul><li>Lead negotiations for new hyperscale lease transactions and renewals, managing deals end-to-end.</li><li>Build and maintain strong customer relationships with global cloud and technology providers.</li><li>Partner with internal teams to align leasing structures with financial, operational, and customer goals.</li><li>Oversee development execution to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to specification.</li><li>Anticipate risks, resolve issues, and keep complex projects on track.</li><li>Identify opportunities for expansions, renewals, and capital improvements to drive long-term value.</li><li>Provide market insights and deal updates that influence portfolio and growth strategies.</li><li>Represent the company externally with credibility and executive presence at customer and investor meetings.</li></ul>  What you’ll need <ul><li>10+ years of experience in commercial real estate, data centers, or technology infrastructure.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.</li><li>Proven track record of executing large-scale leasing transactions and delivering major development projects.</li><li>Strong commercial and financial acumen with ability to evaluate deal economics and project feasibility.</li><li>Experience with large scale development lifecycles and customer requirements.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with ability to present to executive stakeholders.</li><li>Collaborative leadership style with success in influencing cross-functional teams.</li><li>Results-driven mindset with the ability to close complex transactions and deliver on commitments.</li></ul>  A bit about usDigital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit <a href="http://www.digitalrealty.com">digitalrealty.com</a> or follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalrealty">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/digitalrealty">Twitter</a>. What we can offer youOur rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.  Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.  Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.Health and SafetySafety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress. Our Compensation PhilosophyDigital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values. Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below. Compensation range: $190,000 to $255,000 USD. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.  Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&amp;D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.  As Sr. Director, Hyperscale Development &amp; Leasing, you will lead hyperscale lease transactions and renewals across U.S., EMEA, and APAC markets for global account customers, driving deals with a minimum size of 20 MW. This role blends commercial leasing execution, development oversight, and portfolio stewardship with a critical mandate to align outcomes to fund and JV performance goals. You will serve as a trusted partner to internal leaders, investors, and joint venture stakeholders to ensure projects deliver on underwriting assumptions and return objectives.