Policy Manager, Data Center Community Engagement & Strategic Initiatives

Job description

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.