Compute Deployment Project Manager

SF Compute

$120K — $145K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in technical program or project management, preferably in data center or infrastructure fields
  • Experience managing complex, long-term multi-stakeholder programs
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills; credible with both engineers and deal leads
  • High ownership and proactive problem-solving mindset

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main liaison between stakeholders to provide clear updates on technical status
  • Manage all communications regarding deployment status with customers and compute providers
  • Influence technical decisions across different teams effectively
  • Maintain ongoing communication with partners about deployment progress
  • Work closely with the Head of Compute Deals on the transition from contracts to deployment phases
  • Identify and escalate account-level risks early on
  • Create and maintain reporting on deployment progress, challenges, and milestones

Benefits

  • Generous equity grant
  • Visa sponsorships and work permits offered
  • Retirement matching up to 4%
  • 100% premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited paid time off plus over 10 observed holidays
  • Paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
  • Daily lunch coverage for employees
  • Unlimited budget for office books
Full Job Description
About The Role

We're hiring a Deployment Project Manager for the Compute Deals team. This is the person who owns what happens post-deal signature: standing up clusters, driving them through bring-up and validation, and carrying them to successful customer delivery. This is not a deal-sourcing or procurement role, but you will run point on every workstream necessary to execute a compute partnership contract successfully, working with Engineering and GTM until the cluster is live and the customer is running on it.

What You Will Do

Cross-Functional & Customer Coordination
  • Serve as the connective tissue between Compute Deal Lead, Engineering, and GTM, translating technical status into clear updates for internal stakeholders
  • Coordinate compute provider-facing and customer-facing communication on deployment status and timelines, in partnership with Compute Deal Lead and GTM
  • Influence technical and operational decisions across teams that don't report to you

Partner & Account Management
  • Own internal and external partner communication for every active deployment, keeping customers, providers, and internal stakeholders aligned on status, timelines, and next steps
  • Coordinate directly with the Head of Compute Deals on contract handover, making sure deal terms, commitments, and customer context carry cleanly into the deployment phase
  • Flag account-level risks or opportunities back to the Head of Compute Deals early, so the deal team can get ahead of them

Process & Reporting
  • Run tight, recurring reporting on deployment stages, blockers, and upcoming milestones. This includes building dashboard, trackers, and standups
  • Drive better handoffs from deal teams into deployment, tightening the contract-to-kickoff transition

Deployment Ownership
  • Own end-to-end program execution for signed compute deals, from contract handoff through rack-and-stack, bring-up, validation, and customer go-live
  • Lead multiple concurrent GPU cluster deployments at varying stages, sequencing dependencies across hardware delivery, site readiness, networking, and software bring-up
  • Define delivery milestones and acceptance criteria for each deployment, and hold the team to them

BOM & Technical Validation
  • Read and reconcile Bills of Materials against contracted specs, catching mismatches, substitutions, or non-standard components
  • Work directly with Engineering to understand rack configurations, node specs, and network topology well enough to ask the right technical questions, not just relay them

Minimum Qualifications
  • 3+ years in technical program or project management. Ideally in data center, infrastructure, hardware, telecom but not required
  • A track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs over months, not days
  • Excellent cross-functional communication; equally credible with hardware engineers and commercial/deal leads
  • High ownership and bias to action, comfortable escalating early rather than waiting for a problem to resolve itself

Preferred Qualifications
  • Fluency in GPU/compute infrastructure terminology (NVL72, HGX, DGX, InfiniBand, rack/node topology)
  • Demonstrated ability to read and work with a Bill of Materials; you understand rack configurations, node specs, and networking components well enough to catch a discrepancy before it derails a build
  • Experience with data center buildouts, colocation deployments, or large-scale GPU cluster commissioning specifically
  • Exposure to contract or deal-desk handoffs, even if not an expert in deal structuring

What This Role Is Not
  • It is not a deal-sourcing, negotiation, or contract-drafting role
  • It is not a narrowly scoped procurement or back-office operations role
  • It is not a people-management role on day one
Benefits

Generous equity grant

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Visa Sponsorships

Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Retirement matching

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, dental & vision

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time off

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

Parental leave

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily lunch

We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited office book budget

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

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