Director Compliance & Property Management - Michigan

Job Description

Role Overview

As Director of Compliance & Property Management you will lead the administrative, governance, and regulatory management of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's growing hyperscale data center property portfolio. This role owns property-related strategy and execution across land administration, municipal coordination, regulatory compliance, lease and contract obligations, permitting, environmental and safety oversight, non-critical site services, and long-range property governance.

This leader serves as a key point of contact between Oracle and external stakeholders including municipalities, counties, utilities, landlords, landowners, economic development agencies, and regulatory bodies. The role ensures OCI sites remain compliant, well-governed, operationally supportable, and positioned for future growth.

In addition to core property governance responsibilities, this role also leads adjacent site-support functions including Logistics Managers, Audit & Compliance Managers, Building Admins, and Asset Managers . As a result, this position provides leadership across the broader property and site services organization, ensuring administrative operations, external compliance obligations, asset governance, non-critical vendor scopes, and facility support functions are executed consistently across the portfolio.

The right candidate brings deep experience at the intersection of real estate, land use, entitlements, jurisdictional coordination, environmental and safety compliance, infrastructure operations, asset governance, and site services leadership. This person must be able to manage a complex property portfolio in a fast-moving, high-growth environment while translating regulatory, operational, asset-related, and site-specific issues into clear business recommendations for leadership.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead property management, compliance, and site services strategy and execution across a portfolio of hyperscale data center sites, ensuring strong governance from land control through development, operational handoff, and ongoing site support.

• Serve as Oracle's primary point of contact for property-related governance matters involving local municipalities, counties, permitting agencies, utilities, landlords, landowners, and other jurisdictional stakeholders.

• Own land administration activities including property records, easements, leases, zoning constraints, development obligations, permit conditions, access agreements, and other site-specific compliance requirements.

• Partner with local municipalities and regulatory bodies on property-related matters including zoning, permitting, inspections, environmental requirements, life safety, land use restrictions, access issues, and operating compliance.

• Support site readiness and long-term operability by coordinating property-related approvals, renewals, amendments, and regulatory obligations across active and future data center sites.

• Ensure compliance with lease terms, development agreements, covenants, easements, licensing requirements, environmental commitments, and jurisdictional obligations tied to each property.

• Identify and manage property-related risks involving land use, environmental exposure, safety concerns, community issues, access limitations, utility coordination, and regulatory opposition; develop mitigation plans and escalate when appropriate.

• Lead the broader site services organization supporting property and administrative operations, including Logistics Managers, Audit & Compliance Managers, Building Admins, and Asset Managers .

• Oversee logistics-related site support activities such as material flow coordination, receiving and storage practices, inventory governance, vendor coordination, and operational logistics processes that support site readiness and continuity.

• Oversee audit and compliance management activities related to site governance, documentation readiness, internal controls, audit support, regulatory records, and compliance tracking across the property portfolio.

• Lead building administration functions supporting day-to-day administrative operations, office and site-support coordination, visitor and service support processes, documentation flow, and general site business operations.

• Lead asset management practices across the portfolio, including governance for non-critical site assets, lifecycle visibility, record accuracy, disposition coordination, maintenance/support ownership clarity, and alignment between asset records and operational site needs.

• Oversee portfolio-level asset tracking, accountability, and coordination processes to improve visibility into asset condition, ownership, serviceability, utilization, and replacement planning for site-support infrastructure and related property assets.

• Oversee non-critical property maintenance and associated vendor scopes, including areas such as landscaping, parking lots, drainage or retention features, easement areas, fencing, and other externally maintained site-support infrastructure.

• Partner closely with internal teams across real estate, legal, development, design, construction, facilities, utilities, EHS, tax, finance, procurement, public policy, and site operations to ensure aligned and timely execution.

• Oversee and maintain portfolio-level tracking mechanisms for critical property milestones, permit obligations, regulatory deadlines, renewals, environmental commitments, inspections, compliance dependencies, asset records, and site service deliverables.

• Support site expansion efforts through amendments, re-entitlements, parcel adjustments, updated permits, revised land-use approvals, and associated stakeholder coordination.

• Drive process standardization, documentation rigor, and governance mechanisms that improve visibility, predictability, audit readiness, and scalability across the property and site services portfolio.

• Provide executive-ready reporting on portfolio health, property-related risks, regulatory exposure, municipal engagement, audit status, logistics readiness, asset governance, administrative support health, and critical-path dependencies.

• Lead, build, or influence teams responsible for property administration, site governance, entitlement coordination, municipal engagement, compliance management, logistics support, building administration, asset management, and external property-support service execution, depending on organizational structure.

• Represent Oracle professionally in meetings with external property stakeholders, local officials, agencies, consultants, landlords, and community-facing partners.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience in property management, real estate, land use, entitlements, infrastructure development, site governance, asset management, operations administration, compliance, logistics, or related discipline.

• 5-8+ years of leadership experience managing teams, complex programs, or cross-functional initiatives in high-growth, heavily regulated, or infrastructure-intensive environments.

• Strong background supporting large-scale industrial, infrastructure, mission-critical, or data center-related property portfolios.

• Deep familiarity with zoning, permitting, land use approvals, easements, leases, development agreements, and jurisdictional compliance processes.

• Experience working directly with municipalities, counties, utilities, landlords, permitting agencies, inspectors, and other external regulatory or property stakeholders.

• Experience leading or partnering with logistics, compliance, administrative, asset, or site support teams in operational environments.

• Experience managing environmental, safety, and site-compliance issues that affect operational readiness, ongoing site governance, or expansion potential.

• Comfort operating across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, each with distinct regulatory expectations, timelines, and stakeholders.

• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal, regulatory, land-use, operational, asset-related, or governance issues into clear business recommendations.

• Experience building structure, reporting, and process discipline in fast-scaling environments.

• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Business, Public Administration, Urban Planning, Construction Management, Environmental Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Asset Management, or a related field is preferred; equivalent experience will also be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in hyperscale data centers, colocation, telecom, utilities, advanced manufacturing, logistics-intensive environments, or other mission-critical infrastructure settings.

• Experience managing environmental compliance matters such as land constraints, stormwater obligations, water usage issues, hazardous materials considerations, or agency-driven remediation requirements.

• Familiarity with life safety, fire code, occupancy, and site-level regulatory coordination in high-availability environments.

• Experience working with external counsel, brokers, permit specialists, environmental consultants, land use advisors, logistics partners, asset management stakeholders, and local government stakeholders.

• Experience overseeing non-critical property services and related vendors in operational site environments.

• Knowledge of portfolio governance tools, contract tracking systems, audit/compliance tracking systems, inventory or logistics systems, asset databases, and document management platforms used to manage obligations at scale.

Skills and Competencies

• Deep knowledge of land administration, site governance, zoning, entitlements, permitting, and regulatory coordination.

• Strong understanding of leases, easements, covenants, development agreements, compliance tracking, and asset governance practices.

• Strong regulatory navigation and jurisdictional coordination capability across multiple sites and regions.

• Executive presence and confidence in engaging with municipalities, landlords, utilities, regulators, and other external stakeholders.

• Strong cross-functional stakeholder management and influence.

• Ability to lead diverse support functions spanning property governance, logistics, compliance, building administration, and asset management.

• Ability to balance speed, compliance, operational supportability, asset stewardship, and long-term scalability in a high-growth environment.

• High attention to detail with strong judgment in ambiguous, politically sensitive, or high-risk situations.

• Ability to identify risks early and drive resolution with internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong program management, reporting, vendor oversight, and operational rigor.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.

Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.

Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations.

If you want the shortest strong alternative, I'd suggest Director, Site Services, Compliance & Property Management only if you want to emphasize the people/org side more than the land-governance side. My pick remains the title you chose.

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Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $139,400 to $291,800 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M4

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