Head of Infrastructure – New York (Brand New Division Launch)
Wall St, New York City
Compensation: Competitive Base Salary + Uncapped Commission + Leadership Incentives
Onsite
Start Dates: Q4 2025/Q1 2026
About Spencer Ogden
Spencer Ogden is a global recruitment leader, partnering with the businesses building the world’s most essential systems from renewable energy and power infrastructure to construction, data centers, and sustainability. With offices across every major global hub, we combine entrepreneurial agility with deep sector expertise to help deliver the talent behind the global energy and infrastructure transition.
We are now launching a brand-new Infrastructure & Data Center recruitment division in New York, and we are hiring a Head of Infrastructure to establish, grow, and lead this vertical for North America.
Role Overview
This is a ground-floor leadership opportunity to build a completely new team and market vertical for a global brand. As the Head of Infrastructure, you will launch and scale Spencer Ogden’s dedicated Data Center & Infrastructure practice in New York setting the strategy, hiring your team, owning client relationships, and becoming the face of SO’s mission-critical infrastructure business in the U.S.
You will cover one of North America’s fastest-growing sectors. The Data Center market is experiencing unprecedented investment, driven by cloud computing, AI demand, hyperscale expansion, and grid modernization. Developers, operators, EPCs, and engineering firms are competing for talent, creating huge recruitment demand and a long-term revenue runway.
This role gives you autonomy, ownership, and the opportunity to build a legacy business line from day one.
Why This Opportunity Is Different
A Brand-New Team – Full Ownership
- No existing team or structure- you build it from scratch.
- Immediate backing to hire senior consultants beneath you.
- Autonomy to define vision, strategy, markets, and service models.
A Sector Experiencing Explosive Growth
- The U.S. data center sector is expanding at record speed, backed by billions in new capital.
- Hyperscale cloud demand, AI adoption, and digital infrastructure investments are creating urgent, sustained hiring needs.
- Infrastructure modernization, substation expansion, and transmission upgrades are accelerating talent shortages.
A Leadership Role with Real Impact
- Direct visibility with C-suite and U.S. leadership.
- Opportunity to build a flagship division for Spencer Ogden North America.
- Clear progression into U.S. Practice Director or Regional Lead as the team scales.
A Long-Term, High-Value Market
- High fee, senior-level placements across engineering, construction, mission-critical operations, and technical leadership.
- Opportunity to expand into contract, project delivery, and retained search.
- Access to SO’s existing energy and power networks to cross-sell and accelerate growth.
What You’ll Do
Launch & Lead the Division
- Establish Spencer Ogden’s Infrastructure & Data Center practice in New York.
- Define the vertical structure, growth model, and commercial strategy.
- Lead key initiatives including market mapping, brand positioning, and sector penetration.
Hire & Develop Your Team
- Recruit and onboard consultants, senior recruiters, and future team leads.
- Build a high-performance, sales-driven culture.
- Coach consultants on BD, delivery, and market specialization.
Drive Commercial Growth
- Target and win new business across data centers, mission-critical facilities, utilities, and large-scale infrastructure.
- Develop relationships with hyperscale operators, colocation providers, EPCs, engineering firms, power delivery companies, and construction management groups.
- Grow key accounts and win retained, exclusive, and multi-hire agreements.
Strengthen Market Position
- Become a recognized expert in mission-critical infrastructure recruitment.
- Identify emerging trends-AI workloads, renewable integration, microgrids, T&D expansion, construction acceleration.
- Collaborate with other SO teams in the U.S., UK, and APAC on cross-border projects and global accounts.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven success in recruitment, ideally across infrastructure, data centers, construction, power delivery, or technical engineering.
- Experience building or leading teams, or strong leadership potential with a high personal billing background.
- Strong business development capability and history of winning and scaling client accounts.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a desire to build, own, and scale a business line.
- Strategic thinking: able to assess market opportunity, forecast growth, and build a long-term plan.
- Motivated by autonomy, responsibility, and creating something new not inheriting an existing desk.
Why Join Spencer Ogden
- Founding leadership role with full ownership of a brand-new vertical.
- Competitive base + uncapped commission + leadership incentives (long-term upside).
- Backing from global leadership + full marketing, operations, and L&D support.
- Access to established client networks across power, renewables, transmission, and engineering.
- Clear progression into senior management as the division scales.
- High-performance, collaborative culture with global mobility across 13 offices.
Ready to Build Something Extraordinary?
Apply now or reach out to our Internal Talent team to lead the launch of Spencer Ogden’s Infrastructure & Data Center Division in New York.
