Community Engagement Lead

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2 Locations
In-Office
115K-200K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Lead community engagement for Fluidstack datacenter projects: build stakeholder relationships, manage public hearings and opposition, design community benefit programs, coordinate with site, legal, and economic development teams, and track engagement metrics to ensure successful project approvals and long-term local support.
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About Fluidstack

At Fluidstack, we build the compute, data centers, and power that will fuel artificial superintelligence. We supply GWs of compute capabilities to the world’s biggest AI Labs at industry-defining speeds.

Our team is small, fast, and obsessed with quality. We own outcomes end-to-end, challenge assumptions, and treat our customers' problems as our own. No task is beneath anyone here.

There are a few thousand people who will shape the trajectory of superintelligence. Come and be one of them.

About The Role

As Fluidstack scales its global GPU cluster footprint — across the US, Europe, and beyond — we're building new datacenters in communities that will live with them for decades. That relationship needs to be earned, not assumed.

The Community Engagement Lead will be Fluidstack's primary interface between our infrastructure projects and the communities, governments, and civic institutions that surround them. You will build trust before the first shovel hits the ground, sustain it through construction and operations, and turn neighbors, local officials, and regional stakeholders into long-term advocates. You'll own a function that sits at the intersection of public affairs, economic development, and communications — and you'll build it from scratch.

This is a high-leverage role with direct exposure to Fluidstack's leadership, site development teams, and government relations functions. You will be a material contributor to whether projects close on time or stall in council chambers.

What You'll Do
  • Develop and own Fluidstack's community engagement playbook: stakeholder mapping, outreach cadences, issue escalation protocols, and community benefit frameworks — scalable across geographies and jurisdictions

  • Serve as the primary face of Fluidstack in local communities — attending town halls, public hearings, planning commission meetings, and community events; represent Fluidstack's interests at external policy and political forums

  • Build and maintain relationships across a broad stakeholder matrix: elected officials, city/county staff, utility partners, school districts, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, trade associations, and community members

  • Monitor state and local legislation, regulatory developments, and policy trends; align external policy shifts with internal business priorities and develop strategies to shape outcomes — briefing senior leadership on political and policy risk throughout

  • Proactively identify and neutralize opposition before it organizes; partner with Site Selection, Real Estate, and Legal to surface reputational, regulatory, and political risk before capital is committed

  • Coordinate community benefit commitments (local hiring, workforce programs, educational partnerships, grants) and develop communications materials that translate complex infrastructure realities into clear narratives for community, government, and executive audiences; manage external partners including lobbyists, consultants, and PR agencies

What We're Looking For
  • Experience specifically in hyperscale or AI datacenter development

  • Familiarity with energy procurement, grid interconnection, or sustainability communications

  • Multi-jurisdictional and/or international community engagement experience

  • Experience engaging with sovereign or government customers alongside private stakeholders

  • Travel 30 %+ to active sites or as needed for projects.

 
Nice to have:
  • Experience specifically in hyperscale or AI datacenter development context

  • Familiarity with energy procurement, grid interconnection, or sustainability communications

  • Experience engaging with sovereign or government customers alongside private stakeholders

  • Multi-jurisdictional and/or international community engagement experience

The base salary range for this position is $115,000 - $200,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [email protected] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Skills Required

  • 6+ years experience in community affairs, public affairs, government relations, economic development, or closely related function
  • Proven track record navigating public approval processes (zoning, permitting, environmental review, community benefits)
  • Experience managing organized opposition and de-escalating hostile public hearings
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure concerns (grid load, water use, noise, land use, tax incentives, local employment)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, able to produce fact sheets, public presentations, and executive briefings
  • Experience building and executing community benefit programs (workforce training, educational partnerships, local procurement)
  • Ability to build and manage coalitions of external partners (consultants, nonprofits, economic development authorities, utilities)
  • Willingness to travel frequently and maintain physical presence in project communities
  • Experience specifically in hyperscale or AI datacenter development context
  • Familiarity with energy procurement, grid interconnection, or sustainability communications
  • Experience engaging sovereign or government customers alongside private stakeholders
  • Multi-jurisdictional and/or international community engagement experience
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The Company
HQ: London
30 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Instantly reserve dedicated clusters of NVIDIA H200s and GB200s for any scale to supercharge your training and inference workflows.

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