Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications

About DayOne Data Centers

DayOne Data Centers is a Singapore-headquartered global digital infrastructure platform that develops and operates next-generation data centers across Asia Pacific and Europe. Trusted by leading hyperscalers and businesses, the company engineers, builds, and operates high-capacity, AI-ready campuses with speed, scale, and reliability.

You'll be DayOne's senior on-the-ground Marketing & Communications lead for Malaysia, our largest market. Working closely with the General Manager Malaysia, Business Development, Government Relations and project teams, you'll build and own the Malaysia plan across marketing, brand, events, content and local communications. You'll be an extension of our HQ Marketing & Communications team: combining deep local insight with global direction, advising local leadership on what to prioritise, and judging what can be decided locally and what needs central alignment.

Market Planning

• Build and own the Malaysia Marketing & Communications plan, based on local business priorities and aligned with DayOne's global strategy, brand and messaging.

• Develop a deep understanding of our Malaysia operations, customers, partners, projects, stakeholders and major business milestones.

• Advise local leadership on priorities, timing, formats, vendors, events and the right level of investment or visibility.

Local Activity

• Lead integrated market activity across local events, brand activations, content, digital, project milestones, community and ESG activity, and routine local communications.

• Translate HQ programmes into locally relevant activity, recommending adaptations based on Malaysia insight.

HQ Partnership

• Work with HQ Brand, Integrated Campaigns, Content, Digital and Communications & PR for direction, approvals and specialist support.

• Support routine local communications and market intelligence, coordinating media relations, sensitive issues and high-profile reputation matters with the central Communications & PR team.

• Give HQ regular, concise updates on local priorities, stakeholder context, risks, opportunities and upcoming activity.

Quality and Partners

• Ensure local vendors and agencies meet DayOne's standards for quality, brand consistency, accuracy and execution.

• 10+ years' broad B2B marketing and communications experience, ideally in Malaysia within an international organisation.

• Strong understanding of the Malaysian business and stakeholder environment.

• Breadth across integrated marketing, brand, events, content and communications, with experience building a full country plan.

• Experience working with a regional or global HQ, adapting global guidance using local insight.

• Able to influence and advise a General Manager or commercial leader on what to prioritise, delay or decline.

• Experience in a growth, market-building, infrastructure, technology or transformation environment.

• High quality bar and experience directing agencies and vendors.

• Proactive communicator who keeps HQ informed before decisions become urgent.

• Fluent written and spoken English and Bahasa Malaysia.

• Experience in data centres, cloud, technology, telecommunications, energy or infrastructure.

• Experience supporting project milestones or community engagement for large-scale developments.

DayOne is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you're ready to grow with one of the fastest-moving companies in the data center industry, apply now and be part of our global journey.