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Director, Data Center Strategy and Site Selection

Together AI ·
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📍 US 🌐 Remote-only 💰 $230K–$275K Director 8+ yrs
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Director of Data Center Strategy at Together AI, an AI infrastructure company. Owns global data center site selection, vendor negotiations, and infrastructure planning to scale the company's AI cloud backbone across regions.

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Job description

About the Role

As Together AI's first Data Center Strategy hire, you'll own how and where we scale the physical backbone of our AI cloud. This role blends technical depth (power, cooling, redundancy) with commercial negotiation and strategic planning: you'll evaluate sites, structure deals, and shape our infrastructure decisions across regions. 

You'll help decide what we build, where we build, and who we build it with.

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About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure. 

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $230,000 - $275,000K + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. 

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. Please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy

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