Technical Program Manager, Data Center Operations

Fluidstack

• $130K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of program management experience in mission-critical environments
  • Proven ability to design operational frameworks from scratch
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across design, construction, and site operations
  • Excellent communication skills to simplify complex operational issues
  • Proficiency in tracking incident trends and CAPA status with live dashboards
  • Experience in building and maintaining effective SOPs
  • Bonus: ITIL, PMP, or PgMP certification; experience with hyperscale operations and familiarity with relevant standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own the site handover framework from construction to live operations
  • Embed with teams to define maintainability requirements early
  • Drive cross-functional handover processes to identify blockers
  • Build and maintain SOPs with metrics for datacenter operations
  • Lead incident management initiatives and stability improvements
  • Produce dashboards for leadership visibility into stability metrics
  • Run CAPA programs for sustainable operational fixes.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including salary and equity
  • Retirement or pension plan as per local norms
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Generous paid time off policy.
Full Job Description
Technical Program Manager, Data Center Operations

The Data Center Operations Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
  • Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
  • Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.

Role Scope
  • Own the end-to-end site handover framework: define the gates, acceptance criteria, and sign-off procedures that move a new facility from construction to live operations without dropped terms or late surprises.
  • Embed into design, construction, and due diligence teams early enough to shape maintainability requirements before they become field problems.
  • Drive the cross-functional handover rhythm across training, documentation, systems access, and knowledge transfer, surfacing blockers weeks before they hit the go-live schedule.
  • Build and maintain the SOPs that govern critical datacenter operations across the fleet, with metrics that track adoption, execution quality, and efficiency at each site.
  • Lead incident management and stability improvement programs, including post-incident reviews with root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and preventive maintenance oversight that reduces unplanned outages across the global footprint.
  • Produce the dashboards and reporting that give leadership visibility into stability metrics and incident trends, and run the CAPA programs that turn that data into durable fixes.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You have run program management in mission-critical environments where a delayed handover or missed SOP had real operational consequences, not just schedule slippage.
  • You have designed operational frameworks from scratch: handover gates, SOP libraries, incident management programs built without a legacy system to copy from.
  • You quarterback across design, construction, supply chain, and site ops teams simultaneously, and other teams call you when a cross-functional workstream is stuck.
  • You write clearly enough to distill a complex operational issue into a decision and a next action for a site lead, an executive, or a counterparty who was not in the room.
  • You track incident trends and CAPA status in live dashboards and follow corrective actions through to closure, not just to initial assignment.
  • You have personally built or maintained SOPs and measured whether they were actually followed, not just whether they existed.
  • Bonus: ITIL, PMP, or PgMP certification. Hyperscale or large colo operator experience. Familiarity with ASHRAE, Uptime Institute, or TIA-942 standards. Exposure to datacenter construction and commissioning processes.
Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity)
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms

Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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