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Senior Counsel, Real Estate

Fluidstack· Legal
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$325k - $450kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Counsel responsible for structuring, drafting, and negotiating Fluidstack’s real estate transactions related to data center buildout, building a scalable real estate practice, and advising cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Structure, draft, and negotiate the full range of real estate transactions behind Fluidstack’s data center buildout, including purchase and sale agreements, build-to-suit and ground leases, real estate financing, tax incentives, title review and insurance, zoning and land use, easements, environmental matters, and restrictive covenants.
  • Build the foundation for scale: create Fluidstack’s library of real estate form agreements and stand up the network of local counsel we need in each market.
  • Run complex negotiations with sophisticated counterparties end to end, balancing legal risk against the speed our business demands.
  • Manage outside counsel across substantive disciplines with rigor on scope, quality, and spend.
  • Quarterback transactions cross-functionally with site selection, development, finance, and delivery teams so deals never stall.
  • Advise business leaders as a strategic partner, anticipating legal and commercial issues before they arise and having solutions ready.

Qualifications

  • Active license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and can meet admission requirements where you will practice.
  • Autonomously structured, drafted, and negotiated complex commercial agreements as lead attorney, with experience in land acquisition and disposition, build-to-suit and ground leasing, real estate finance, zoning and land use, construction, title and insurance, and related areas.
  • Personally made sound, commercially pragmatic calls in ambiguous, high-stakes situations with track record of influencing deal outcomes.
  • Oversaw outside counsel across multiple disciplines with rigor on scope, quality, and spend.
  • Ability to write and speak clearly to translate complex legal issues into actionable decisions for executives or counterparties.
  • Bonus: mix of law firm and in-house experience; using AI to improve legal work and efficiency; in-house experience at a data center developer or cloud company.

Skills

Required:Real estate transactionsContract negotiation

Benefits

  • Total compensation may include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
Last updated Sep 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI

Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.

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