Senior Manager, Sustainability

About Rowan

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is redefining how data centers are delivered—faster, smarter, and at scale. We partner with hyperscale customers to provide tailored, high-performance infrastructure with a focus on sustainability, efficiency, and flexibility.

Our experienced, end-to-end team delivers custom solutions across a growing portfolio of strategic sites in key markets across the United States. Backed by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, Rowan is committed to enabling the next generation of digital infrastructure—and building a more sustainable future in the process.

Ready to help transform how the world’s most important technologies are powered? Join us.

Role Summary

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is looking for a Senior Manager of Sustainability to support the integration of environmentally responsible and decarbonization strategies from project design, construction, and operations across the company’s portfolio. The role can be based in our new Denver, CO headquarters or remote and will focus on results through project outcomes while positioning Rowan as the leader in responsible and innovative development.

The successful candidate will have experience in design or development and a deep understanding of sustainability principles with a passion for execution and data-driven results. This is an excellent opportunity to work on actively decarbonizing digital infrastructure at a national scale with some of the most innovative and impactful teams in the industry.

Travel: Ability to travel up to 15% for company gatherings or to project sites.

Location: Denver, CO or remote.

Compensation: $160k-$190k (Offers Bonus)

Essential Responsibilities

• Facilitate the implementation of sustainability strategies and practices that advance Rowan’s corporate sustainability objectives for data center projects in various stages of development, from site origination through facility operations.

• Influence decarbonization strategies for embodied carbon and energy use including sourcing and supply chain optimizations across the portfolio.

• Partner with the Site Origination, Development, Energy, Water, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Operations teams to develop and manage sustainability strategies on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Lead the delivery of sustainability objectives, including greenhouse gas reduction plans, sustainability reporting, project certifications, and ESG programs for projects.

• Ensure key performance metrics, including energy, water, carbon, and materials impact, are tracked and leveraged across all projects.

• Develop and refine technical reports, investment memos, corporate sustainability reporting, and other critical deliverables for internal and external communications.

• Support the expansion of the sustainability practice within Rowan, including mentoring and hiring staff, improving workflows between business units, and implementing industry-aligned standards that drives decarbonization on our projects.

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers within design and construction teams and with Rowan’s investor and customer organizations.

• Stay informed of industry trends, best practices, and emerging issues in improved building performance and decarbonization approaches and identify opportunities to integrate this knowledge into Rowan’s development process.

Education, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in sustainability, engineering, architecture, environmental science or a related field with 10-15 years of professional experience in sustainability consulting. Registered Architect (RA) or Professional Engineer (PE) strongly preferred.

• Experience with sustainability assessments and ESG reporting programs (e.g., GHG Protocol, SBTi, CDP, Article 9, SASB, etc.).

• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead multiple projects and initiatives across business units effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Exceptional visual, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Technical experience with sustainability certifications (e.g. LEED, BREEAM, Fitwel, ILFI Zero Carbon, etc.) and carbon offset strategies.

• Experience using sustainability and project management tools (Procore, EC3, One Click LCA).

• LEED AP with specialty or equivalent sustainability credential preferred.

Fueled by Excellence & Collaboration

At Rowan, we are a distributed team united by a common mission to transform data center delivery. Across our two offices