Senior Director, Origination (Data Centres)

Location: Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. Ability to legally work in Japan required.

Company

hirify.global operates and develops hyperscale data centres across the Asia Pacific and Middle East region to support the digital infrastructure needs of major global companies.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end origination and execution pathway for material development opportunities, from formation through approval and deal execution.
• Establish and lead multidisciplinary deal teams, defining roles, decision rights, commercial parameters, critical paths, and governance.
• Coordinate customer, site selection, energy, investment, development, design, construction, finance, legal, operations, and delivery stakeholders.
• Develop commercial positions and business cases covering customer requirements, land strategy, capex, financing, target returns, and risk.
• Lead negotiations, maintain stage-gate governance, resolve risks, and provide concise reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure approved opportunities are handed over to the strategic delivery team with clear commitments, assumptions, risks, and accountabilities.

Requirements

• Fluent English and Japanese; Japanese N1 required.
• Legally able to work in Japan.
• Significant experience originating, structuring, and negotiating complex development, infrastructure, real estate, or data centre opportunities, ideally across APJ markets.
• Track record leading multidisciplinary teams through ambiguous, high-value transactions or development opportunities from formation to approval or close.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including business case development, integrated underwriting, negotiation strategy, and risk-adjusted return assessment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the credibility to influence senior leaders, customers, landowners, governments, advisers, and delivery partners.
• Sound judgement, resilience, and operating discipline, including the ability to prioritise, make timely decisions, and maintain momentum under pressure.
• Collaborative, low-ego leadership style and commitment to safety, sustainability, hirify.global’s values, and high-performance culture.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible and safe working environment focused on inclusion and diverse perspectives.
• Collaborative culture of problem solving, transparency, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
• Grow@Hyperscale development initiative designed to support career growth and impact.
• Benefits intended to support employee wellbeing and sustainable performance.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted directly; hirify.global does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies.