Site Selection Manager — EMEA

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy .

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

Why Verda

• Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).

• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

• 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• An opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Work mode: Remote (Europe)

• Travel: Frequent travel on sites

• Employment type: Full-time and permanent .

About the role

Before Verda can build or deploy, someone has to find the right location. Site selection is one of the highest-leverage functions in a growing infrastructure company — a good decision here shapes everything that comes after: construction cost, power availability, latency, regulatory compliance, and long-term scalability.

We're looking for a Site Selection Manager for EMEA who specialises in powered land and power shell opportunities. Your primary focus is identifying, evaluating, and securing sites with the right power infrastructure already in place or within reach — the kind of assets that let Verda move fast rather than wait years for grid connections.

Nordics are the current top priorities. You'll build and own the broader EMEA pipeline alongside them. This is not a strategic advisory role — you'll be on-site regularly, running your own evaluations, managing broker relationships directly, and driving deals to close yourself.

What you'll do

• Identify and evaluate powered land plots and power shell opportunities across EMEA, with immediate focus on Nordics.

• Assess sites directly and in person: available power capacity, grid connection status and timeline, substation proximity, cooling feasibility, fiber connectivity, land size and density potential, and planning or permitting risk.

• Build and maintain a live pipeline of pre-qualified opportunities across EMEA markets — categorised by readiness, power availability, and strategic fit — so Verda is never reacting to capacity needs at the last minute.

• Lead the shortlisting and commercial evaluation process: scoring sites against Verda's technical and financial criteria, producing clear recommendation reports for leadership decisions.

• Manage the pre-acquisition process from shortlist to signed — coordinating with Legal, Construction, Finance, and external advisors to keep deals moving.

• Develop and own relationships with landowners, developers, utility providers, grid operators, real estate brokers, and local planning authorities in active markets.

• Stay ahead of the EMEA powered land market: track new availability, grid capacity releases, planning approvals, and competitor activity so Verda sees opportunities early.

What we're looking for

Required

• 7+ years in data center site selection, critical infrastructure real estate, or power infrastructure development — with hands-on EMEA market experience and a track record of deals closed, not just evaluated.

• Specific experience sourcing and transacting powered land or power shell assets — you understand what makes a site viable beyond the headline power figure: grid connection agreements, DNO/TSO timelines, substation capacity, and planning constraints.

• Deep familiarity with the Nordic & UK market: grid connection processes, DNO relationships, planning framework for data center and industrial use, and the current competitive landscape for powered land.

• Comfortable working independently and getting into the detail yourself — you visit sites, run your own analysis, manage your own broker relationships, and drive your own deals. You don't wait for someone else to do the groundwork.

• Strong commercial and analytical judgment: you evaluate sites on data, model the trade-offs clearly, and make a recommendation rather than presenting options without a view.

• Willingness to travel frequently across EMEA — expect to be on-site or in market 2–3 weeks per month during active searches.

Strong plus

• Direct experience in the Nordic market — understanding of municipal planning processes, Nordic grid operators, and the regulatory environment for large power consumers.

• Existing relationships with major Nordic and European landowners, developers, grid advisors, and real estate brokers active in the powered land space.

• Familiarity with renewable energy infrastructure: hydropower proximity, PPA availability, carbon intensity considerations, and how sustainability credentials affect site viability in Nordic and Western European markets.

• Experience evaluating sites for high-density GPU or HPC workloads specifically — understanding of 140kW+ per rack power requirements and what that means for site infrastructure beyond headline MW capacity.

• Background in Nordic markets — Sweden, Finland, Norway — where power cost, cooling opportunity, and renewable credentials are structurally different from Western European markets.

What's Next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.

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