Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rubix Data Centers is seeking a Vice President, Legal to lead legal support for their global AI and digital infrastructure platform. The role involves being the principal legal advisor, overseeing corporate governance, real estate, energy, construction, and compliance matters while building the legal function from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal on equity and debt raises, including investor diligence, financing documents, and security packages
- Structure and negotiate joint ventures, co-investment, and M&A as the platform grows
- Own corporate governance: multi-jurisdiction entity management, board and shareholder matters, delegations of authority, and the policies a PE-backed business is expected to hold
- Lead legal on site acquisition: land purchases, options, ground leases, build-to-suit, easements, and wayleaves
- Handle title, zoning, planning and entitlements, and permitting across jurisdictions
- Support development from site control through to operational handover
- Negotiate power purchase agreements, grid connection and interconnection agreements, and take-or-pay arrangements
- Advise on on-site generation and storage (solar, battery, backup) and related grid and regulatory matters
- Treat power as a gating issue: secure it early and protect it contractually
- Structure, draft, and negotiate construction contracts: EPC, design-build, GMP, multi-prime, and FIDIC-based forms for international work
- Cover the full project lifecycle: procurement, delivery, commissioning, claims, delay, defects, liens, and site safety
- Manage colocation, supply, equipment, and professional services agreements
- Advise on regulatory and compliance matters across real estate, energy, construction, and data infrastructure
- Own data protection (GDPR and equivalents), sanctions, anti-bribery, and ESG and sustainability obligations
- Manage disputes and pre-litigation matters, and coordinate external counsel
- Run the outside counsel panel for quality, speed, and cost
- Stand up the legal function from scratch and grow it as the company expands
- Build the team and the budget, and bring in specialists as volume demands
Skills
- Qualified lawyer (JD or UK/EU equivalent) in good standing in at least one relevant jurisdiction
- 12 to 18+ years' legal experience, with significant in-house or relevant private practice time
- Deep experience across infrastructure, energy, construction, and real estate transactions
- Track record negotiating complex commercial and financing agreements at scale
- Clear, business-focused advice in fast-moving environments
- Strong influence with executives and the Board
- Data centers, digital infrastructure, or hyperscale experience
- Experience in a PE-backed or institutionally funded business, including financing and diligence
- International experience across multiple regions
- Experience building and leading a legal function from an early stage
Benefits
- Rubix offers competitive compensation including base pay, performance incentives, and benefits.
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