Community Engagement Lead
Role Overview
This is a senior-level role as the Community Engagement Lead, where you will build and own Fluidstack's community engagement strategy from scratch, serving as the primary interface between infrastructure projects and local communities, governments, and civic institutions. You will develop stakeholder relationships, attend public events, monitor policy trends, and coordinate community benefits to ensure projects proceed smoothly and build long-term advocacy. The role involves high leverage with direct exposure to leadership and significant impact on project timelines and community trust.
Perks & Benefits
The job is fully remote, likely with flexibility in time zones given the global scope of projects across the US and Europe. Compensation includes a competitive base salary range of $115,000 to $200,000 per year, plus equity in the form of stock options, reflecting a commitment to pay equity and transparency. The culture is highly motivated and purpose-driven, focused on excellence and hard work to accelerate AI infrastructure, with opportunities for career growth through direct leadership exposure and building a new function from scratch.
Full Job Description
About Fluidstack
At Fluidstack, we’re building the infrastructure for abundant intelligence. We partner with top AI labs, governments, and enterprises - including Mistral, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Meta, and more - to unlock compute at the speed of light.
We’re working with urgency to make AGI a reality. As such, our team is highly motivated and committed to delivering world-class infrastructure. We treat our customers’ outcomes as our own, taking pride in the systems we build and the trust we earn. If you’re motivated by purpose, obsessed with excellence, and ready to work very hard to accelerate the future of intelligence, join us in building what's next.
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
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 careers@fluidstack.io 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.
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