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From site selection to live operations, Metric DCX places leaders at every stage of a data center's life.
About Metric DCX
At Metric DCX, we run retained executive search for data center organizations, from the C-suite to the senior leaders who run construction and sites. We work across Hyperscale, Colocation, Mission Critical Facilities, Data Center Construction, Commissioning, Development & Operations, and Power & Energy.
Typical searches include CEO, COO, VP of Construction, Head of Commissioning, Director of Critical Facilities and business development leadership.
Why Metric DCX
Metric is a specialist executive search firm, not a generalist with a data center desk. Through Metric DCX, our consultants work in the sector every day, which is how we reach the leaders who are rarely actively looking.
Our consultants understand the technical and delivery pressures specific to hyperscale, colocation, construction and mission critical environments, and brief against them rather than against a generic job spec.
Data center leadership talent, particularly at the operational and delivery level, is in short supply. We hold those relationships across years, so a search opens with people we already know rather than a cold list.
We publish MEP Pulse and host People Behind the Power, where the engineers and operators running live data center estates talk about the work. Those conversations are where we meet the people our clients later want to hire.
What we cover
Metric DCX covers Hyperscale, Colocation, Mission Critical Facilities, Data Center Construction, Commissioning, Development & Operations, and Power & Energy, each with its own specialist consultants and candidate network.
Hyperscale build and operations programs, and the leaders who bring capacity online at scale.
Colocation providers and operators, across development, operations, sales and site leadership.
Facilities where uptime defines the job, across critical facilities management, engineering and operations leadership.
From preconstruction through handover, across project, construction and MEP leadership.
Commissioning authorities, quality assurance and integrated systems testing, hiring the leaders who take a site live.
From site development and land to the operations leaders who run live facilities.
Power, energy and the grid connections data centers depend on, across development, procurement and delivery leadership.
How we work
Every Metric DCX search follows the same five stages, from the first conversation about the role to support after the offer is signed.
We take a detailed brief on the role, the team and what the hire needs to deliver.
We map everyone who could do the role, including people who are not looking, using what every previous search has taught us. You see the market before anyone is approached.
Our consultants approach candidates through the data center network we have built, and assess each one against the brief rather than the resume.
You meet a shortlist of candidates who fit the brief, and we keep both sides informed at every stage.
We manage the offer and negotiation, and stay involved after your new leader starts.
What we offer
Metric DCX works on retained mandates. Every search comes with talent mapping and access to our market intelligence, tailored to data center hiring.
C-suite to senior construction and site leadership, run by a team of specialists who work in your market and backed by the audience our podcasts and newsletters have built. We assess against the brief rather than the resume, and stay involved after the offer is signed.
We map everyone who could do the role, not just the people looking. Where they sit, what they are paid and who is likely to move, so you see the real market before you commit to a hire.
Every search we run adds to our picture of the data center market. We know who is moving, what leadership roles pay and how strong teams are built, and retained clients get that intelligence with our advice on how to use it.
Who we work with
Alongside the seven sectors, our clients fall into three groups, and our consultants are organized the same way.
Site selection, land development, energy and power, and operations.
General contractors, subcontractors, owner's representatives, engineering and commissioning firms.
Liquid cooling, power generation and modular systems, plus GPU, CPU and AI infrastructure suppliers.
What we place
Executive appointments are the core of what Metric DCX does. Data center programs also depend on the people who run sites and keep projects on schedule, so we hire senior construction and technical leaders too.
Vice president through C-suite, including Chief Development Officer, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel.
The people who deliver the build, including VP of Construction, Director of MEP Delivery and General Superintendent.
Senior specialists in scheduling and project controls, quality, commissioning and cost management.
Our Partners
Feedback
Meet the team
Every Metric DCX search is run by a team of specialists who work in that market every day, whether that is hyperscale, colocation, mission critical facilities or data center construction.
Latest insights
Perspectives from our sector specialists on talent trends, market intelligence and leadership, alongside conversations with the leaders shaping the data center industry.
A few stories on ENR have stood out to me this month, including where grid access has moved from a background concern to the defining constraint on data center delivery, and construction backlog is back up, driven almost entirely by data center activity, even as labor pressures are resurfacing.
In this episode of People Behind the Power, host George Bacon sits down with Anthony Hatzenbuehler from Coravel, to discuss his career, craft and his read on where the industry is heading.
Welcome back to MEP Pulse. This edition leans heavily on Consulting-Specifying Engineer newly released 2026 MEP Giants report, and it's a genuinely useful snapshot of where the industry stands right now: revenue is up sharply, headcount is growing even faster than the work, M&A hit a record share of participation, and data centers now touch the majority of design revenue at the top of the market.
Common questions
If your question isn't covered here, one of our specialists can talk it through with you.
Let's build together
Tell us the role, the site and what the hire needs to deliver. A Metric DCX consultant who works in your market will scope the search with you and set out the plan.
