Asset Management Analyst - Origination

The Asset Management Analyst, Origination supports the front end of Cipher’s asset lifecycle — land and parcel diligence, entitlements, and technical and environmental feasibility. The role maintains front-end pipeline visibility and supports site selection and acquisition decisions.

Responsibilities

• Support parcel diligence and option / lease-to-own evaluation.
• Coordinate technical and environmental studies as part of site feasibility.
• Support front-end origination alongside Business Development and Legal, providing operational context for due diligence and feasibility.
• Track entitlements and permitting across the portfolio and pipeline.
• Monitor diligence timelines and flag risks to critical-path items (studies, approvals, permits).
• Maintain organized diligence records, checklists, and per-site data repositories.
• Flag power and interconnection considerations and communicate action items to responsible teams.
• Package diligence findings into a site summary for review and origination decisions.
• Support handoff from origination into development as a site advances.

Qualifications

Required

• 2–4 years in in real estate development, infrastructure, energy, or transactional diligence.
• Hands-on diligence experience — title, survey, zoning, environmental, or entitlement review.
• Comfort coordinating third-party studies and consultants for the land and entitlement processes and technical and environmental studies.
• Able to track timelines across multiple sites and flag critical-path risks proactively.
• Clear written communication — can package diligence findings into a concise site summary for decision-makers.

Preferred

• Data center development exposure specifically.
• Experience across a multi-site portfolio or pipeline, rather than a single-asset.

Scope/Boundaries

• Owns: front-end diligence execution and feasibility coordination — parcel and site diligence, technical and environmental studies, entitlements and permitting tracking, diligence records and per-site repositories, and the site-summary packaging that moves a site toward development-readiness.
• Partners with:Business Development, Legal and land consultants.
• Does not own:deal negotiations, financial models or underwriting, power and interconnection (flags and routes, does not own).