Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery

Lightning AI

$160K — $220K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or similar roles
  • Experience in infrastructure, cloud, hardware, or datacenter environments
  • Strong program management skills including project planning and stakeholder management
  • Ability to understand technical architecture and requirements without direct engineering involvement
  • Proven track record of driving execution across multiple technical teams
  • Excellent communication skills for clarity across various stakeholders
  • Comfortable working in evolving requirements and priorities

Responsibilities

  • Own infrastructure workstreams, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
  • Drive daily execution across teams and external partners
  • Build and maintain project plans and critical paths
  • Coordinate with various departments including Engineering and Operations
  • Connect project execution with broader infrastructure goals through tools like Jira
  • Identify blockers and dependencies early, driving them to resolution
  • Support hardware deployments and datacenter capacity initiatives
  • Grow technical depth to effectively manage various workstreams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Equity opportunities through RSUs for long-term investment in the company
  • 401(k) matching and pension contributions to support retirement
  • Unlimited PTO and company-wide winter break for work-life balance
  • Paid parental and family leave to support significant life events
  • Annual professional development allowance for continuous growth
  • Wellness stipends to support physical and mental health
  • Four-week sabbatical after four years of service
  • Flexible work arrangements with hybrid models
  • Complimentary meals provided at office locations
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to join our Infrastructure Delivery team and help drive programs across compute, network, storage, hardware, platform engineering, and data center operations.

You'll work alongside Senior Infrastructure TPMs on complex datacenter and AI infrastructure deployments, taking direct ownership of defined workstreams while developing broader end-to-end infrastructure expertise. Over time, you'll expand your scope to independently lead programs from datacenter readiness through compute deployment to customer handoff.

You do not need to have already led a large-scale GPU cluster deployment or a greenfield data center build. We're looking for strong infrastructure experience, solid TPM fundamentals, technical curiosity, and the ability to learn new domains quickly.
What You'll Do
  • Own defined infrastructure workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables within larger programs
  • Drive day-to-day execution across engineering, operations, vendors, and external partners
  • Build and maintain project plans, critical paths, dependencies, RAID, and execution status
  • Coordinate across Infrastructure Engineering, Network, DC Operations, Platform, Security, Hardware, and other teams
  • Connect engineering execution in Jira to broader infrastructure milestones and delivery commitments
  • Identify blockers and cross-functional dependencies early and drive them through resolution
  • Support hardware deployments, network and storage initiatives, datacenter expansions, migrations, and capacity growth
  • Develop enough technical depth across workstreams to ask the right questions, understand dependencies, and challenge delivery assumptions
  • Provide clear, concise updates on progress, risks, decisions, and mitigation plans
  • Help improve Infra Delivery processes, tooling, documentation, and execution frameworks
  • Progressively take on broader scope toward independently leading end-to-end infrastructure programs
Who You Are
  • 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, infrastructure program/project management, or similar
  • Experience driving programs within infrastructure, cloud, platform, SRE, systems, networking, hardware, or datacenter environments
  • Strong program management fundamentals, including project planning, milestones, critical path, dependencies, RAID logs, and stakeholder management
  • Able to understand technical architecture, requirements, and dependencies without needing to be the engineer implementing them
  • Proven ability to drive execution across multiple technical teams without direct authority
  • Comfortable getting into the details while maintaining visibility into the broader program outcome
  • Strong communicator who creates clarity across engineering, operations, vendors, and leadership
  • Comfortable operating where requirements, priorities, ownership, and processes are evolving
  • High learning agility and interest in developing expertise across datacenter and AI infrastructure
Ideal Experience
  • Experience supporting compute, network, storage, cloud infrastructure, hardware deployment, or capacity expansion programs
  • Experience working with hardware vendors, colocation providers, VARs, or external partners
  • Experience coordinating programs through Smartsheet
  • Experience coordinating engineering execution through Jira
  • Familiarity with infrastructure capacity planning or hardware lifecycle management
  • Exposure to GPU infrastructure, AI/ML infrastructure, HPC, or distributed systems
  • Experience in a startup, high-growth company, or similarly fast-moving technical environment


We are committed to offering competitive compensation that reflects the value each team member brings to our mission. Final offers are based on factors such as experience, skills, geographic location, and role expectations. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package for eligible roles includes a discretionary bonus, a meaningful equity component, and comprehensive benefits.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is:

$160,000-$220,000 USD

Benefits and Perks

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support our employees' health, well-being, and long-term success:
  • Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Meaningful Equity: RSUs that give employees a stake in the company's long-term success.
  • Retirement Savings: 401(k) matching (U.S.) and pension contributions (U.K.).
  • Flexible Time Off: Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays to support work-life balance.
  • Company-Wide Winter Break: Two weeks of company closure each winter to disconnect and recharge.
  • Paid Parental & Family Leave: Paid leave to support you and your family through life's important moments.
  • Professional Development: Annual learning and development allowance to support your professional growth.
  • Wellness Benefits: Wellness and work-from-home stipends to support your physical and mental well-being.
  • Sabbatical Program: Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service.
  • Flexible Work: Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model for our office-based teams.
  • In-Office Meals: Complimentary meals at our office hubs.

Benefits may vary by location, team, and role.

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