Technical Program Manager, Deployments

Fluidstack

$120K — $160K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a Project Manager in Data Center infrastructure deployment or Technical Project Manager role.
  • Experience with Data Center operations and compute hardware networking.
  • Excellent communication skills to liaise effectively with stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven decision-making.
  • Ability to travel to Data Centers, with up to 30% travel requirement.
  • Automation-first mindset with a focus on process improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Create and execute large scale AI Infrastructure deployments from start to finish.
  • Lead project delivery by coordinating across infrastructure and data center operations teams.
  • Proactively identify risks and implement solutions to avoid delays.
  • Maintain project documentation and provide regular status updates to the company.
  • Develop reports and dashboards to track program status and challenges for management.
  • Drive collaboration across engineering, product management, and operations teams for project alignment.
  • Establish and monitor KPIs to measure project success and improve deployment processes.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package including cash and equity.
  • Retirement or pension plan aligned with local standards.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Generous PTO policy in accordance with local standards.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Technical Program Manager for Deployments, you will own the end-to-end program delivery required to bring data center infrastructure and AI clusters online. You will operate in a highly ambiguous environment, coordinating across construction, infrastructure, networking, systems engineering, procurement, and operations teams to ensure deployment readiness and successful go-lives.

This role requires an ownership mindset. You will be expected to move programs forward with sometimes incomplete information, surface and resolve gaps, and ensure progress across teams responsible for construction, networking, hardware, operations, and beyond. While physical installation and construction execution are owned by partner teams, you are accountable for overall delivery outcomes and are expected to fill gaps before they become blockers.

The best candidates for this role bring deep experience in the intersection of data center construction handover and AI/GPU hardware deployment, not just one or the other. You know how construction sequences impact infrastructure readiness, how ICT and CDU work intersect, and how to hold multiple workstreams accountable across time zones and organizational boundaries.

Focus
  • Own program delivery for data hall and AI cluster activation, from planning through operational handoff
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams responsible for construction, infrastructure, network, hardware, ICT, commissioning, and operations execution
  • Translate hyperscale AI/GPU and DLC infrastructure requirements into actionable deployment plans
  • Anticipate downstream impacts of technical sequencing decisions on capacity, schedule, and cluster performance
  • Drive alignment across teams operating at different speeds, scopes, and time zones - including vendor and contractor partners
  • Manage and hold accountable vendors, integration contractors, and third-party service providers across the deployment lifecycle.
  • Operate effectively in ambiguity, making progress with incomplete information and evolving requirements
  • Develop and drive executive-level program status briefings that clearly communicate schedule health, risks, key decisions, and escalations paths
  • Maintain clear, current program artifacts: schedules, RACI matrices, risk registers, decision logs, and deployment runbooks
  • Maintain momentum through changing requirements, tight timelines, and cross-time-zone execution
  • Collaborate closely with SMEs in networking, ICT, commissioning, systems engineerings, product, procurement, operations, and more before execution - not in isolation.
  • Identify and drive process improvements that scale across concurrent builds and future deployments

Must Haves
  • 5+ years experience in delivering complex data center physical infrastructure programs in fast-moving environments
  • Strong understanding of AI/GPU infrastructure, including power density, cooling, networking, and deployment sequencing
  • Demonstrated experience bridging construction handover and cluster deployment: candidates who are network only or construction only will not be a fit
  • Familiarity with how construction, low-voltage, and commissioning activities impact deployment readiness and sequencing
  • Proven ability to lead through influence rather than direct ownership of execution teams
  • Proven ability to manage vendor and contractor relationships, understanding schedule and reputational risks
  • Experience delivering programs across multiple concurrent sites or regions, including planning for staggered milestones
  • Able to develop and present executive-level program status, risk summaries, and key decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Experience with long-lead procurement processes, and hardware supply chain constraints that affect deployment timelines
  • Actively collaborate with SMEs across multiple domains to validate plans and resolve gaps
  • Comfortable operating with limited process and evolving inputs in a high-growth, intense environment
  • Demonstrated ability to take initiative, fill gaps, and drive execution beyond defined scope, without being directed to do so
  • Able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on program management
  • Comfortable operating outside standard business to meet deployment timelines
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills - able to ensure teams at all levels understand priorities and dependencies
  • Strong execution mindset with the ability to balance speed, quality, and risk
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision making
  • Automation-first mindset with commitment to identifying and implementing process improvements
  • You are willing and able to travel to data center locations, sometimes on short notice; expect to spend up to 60% of your time traveling


Nice To Haves
  • DCD, PMP, CDCPM, CDCMP, CDCP or DCDC Certification(s)
  • ITIL Foundation Certification
  • JIRA, Smartsheet, or similar project tracking and workflow management experience
  • Knowledge of infrastructure automation and deployment tools
  • Experience managing BPO or contract labor pools during large-scale hardware deployment phases
  • Background in material coordination or logistics management at scale during active deployment (receiving, cycle counting, site-to-site transfers)
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 stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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