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Own the portfolio-wide vendor relationship and performance management program for critical maintenance and repair vendors. Establish governance, scorecards, KPIs, qualification standards, approved vendor lists, feedback processes, corrective actions, contract renewal tracking, and audit-ready records. Partner with site teams and maintenance strategy leaders to ensure vendor coverage, compliance, performance, and alignment with equipment strategies. The role is remote or hybrid and requires regular travel to Riot sites.

Leads Riot’s technical training program for data center operations and maintenance. Designs curricula, certification processes, assessments, job aids, and emergency drills covering critical power, cooling, safety, and equipment procedures. Delivers classroom, virtual, and hands-on instruction; evaluates employee competency; maintains training records; audits program quality; coaches trainers and learners; identifies performance gaps; and improves training based on data and operational outcomes. The role partners across operations and facilities teams and requires regular travel to multiple sites.

Provides business-oriented legal support for mergers and acquisitions, data center leasing, real estate transactions, and strategic corporate initiatives. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating transaction documents, conducting legal due diligence, coordinating with counsel and stakeholders, supporting deal structuring through closing and integration, and improving legal transaction processes.

Provides employment-law support across people operations, workplace policies, employment agreements, employee relations, investigations, disputes, and legal processes. Advises internal stakeholders, drafts and negotiates employment documentation, coordinates with outside counsel, supports policy development and enforcement, and contributes to workplace culture initiatives. Requires a JD, active U.S. state bar membership, and at least three years of relevant employment law experience.

Lead Riot's multi-discipline data center engineering organization (mechanical, electrical, controls), set technical standards and QA/QC, approve designs at key milestones, oversee consultants and vendors, develop engineering talent, and represent engineering in cross-functional and executive decision-making.