Director / Senior Director Investment - Data Centres

This is a senior hands-on role in the APAC data centre investment team, responsible for executing and expanding our data centre platform. The position combines leadership and client-facing responsibility with deep individual contribution in underwriting, acquisitions, portfolio management, and stakeholder management.

This is a highly active investment role that requires a strong work ethic, rigorous analysis, and willingness to be accountable for results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with ESR country teams to lead and execute data centre land acquisitions and development site transactions across APAC
• Direct high-quality underwriting of all new and existing investments, ensuring robust financial modeling and sound commercial assumptions
• When required, act as ESR Data Centre Team’s representative for key investment matters with investors, bankers, JV partners, and senior internal stakeholders ensuring clear and consistent communication
• Oversee handover of pre-acquisition cash flow forecasts to asset/fund managers in order to prepare initial business plans and budgets
• Support senior management to drive expansion of the data centre platform, including AUM growth, new product development, and fee revenue
• Manage interactions and cross-functional projects with internal ESR teams, including Fund Management, in-country teams, Operations, Legal, and Finance
• Identify and prioritize research needs on real estate and data centre markets across APAC
• Ensure detailed transaction reviews with internal and external legal counsel, managing key deal risks and documentation
• Be prepared to take on both strategic and tactical work, from high-level negotiations to detailed underwriting and analysis
• Contribute to ESG and sustainability considerations across investment decisions, aligning with platform-wide objectives.
• Support the preparation of investment committee materials and internal approval documentation with precision and clarity

Requirements

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 10 years of experience and data center real estate acquisition background as a developer, operator, and/or investor within Asia Pacific
• Exceptional financial modeling skills in Excel, with ability to build, audit, and critique detailed cash flow models.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of work, maintain attention to detail, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Self-starter mindset: willing to “roll up sleeves” to do the work personally, while also guiding and reviewing team deliverables
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills, able to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally
• Experience managing investor, lender, and/or JV partner relationships
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Fluency in English is required; knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, or Korean is an advantage but not required

Additional Qualifiers:

• Must demonstrate a history of hands-on execution, not just high-level oversight
• Willingness to take responsibility for final work product and mentor more junior staff to raise the team’s technical standard
• Capable of managing competing priorities with minimal direction
• Preference for candidates with demonstrated resilience and ability to perform under pressure
• Comfort working in an entrepreneurial environment
• Passion for digital infrastructure and long-term investment strategy