Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Center Expansion

Verda; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Verda is building a European AI cloud and seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead site expansions from lease to fully commissioned data halls. You will coordinate engineering, construction, electrical, and IT teams, manage schedules, risk, and vendor relations, and hand over ready-to-run sites across Europe, with significant travel and a hybrid work model.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast yet safe delivery, and creating repeatable playbooks to accelerate future expansions while ensuring

Qualifikationen

• Proven PM for complex, multi-team infrastructure builds.
• Own real critical-path schedules across parallel workstreams.
• Coordinate across engineering, construction, hardware, networking, and ops.
• Understand data center build lifecycle and operational handover.
• Experience managing vendors and contractors to scope and schedule.
• Track record standardizing repeatable delivery across sites.

Aufgaben

• Own the program that turns a new site into live, operational capacity.
• Coordinate every team involved and streamline the path from fit-out to handover.
• Build and own the master schedule and critical path across all workstreams.
• Coordinate the full cast turning a plan into capacity with multiple teams.
• Keep dependencies visible and decisions moving so workstreams don’t wait.
• Manage risk, budget tracking, and reporting across the program.
• Run the handover to operations with acceptance criteria and punch lists.
• Turn each build into a repeatable playbook for future expansions.
• Drive new-market site from lease to first racks online on schedule.

Kenntnisse

Technical PM

Cross-functional

Infrastructure

Vendor mgmt

Risk management

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

At Verda, we are building a fully featured European AI cloud, covering everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. We are a full‑stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem. Join Verda while it’s still being built – not once it’s finished.

Responsibilities

• Own the program that turns a new site or expansion from empty space into live, operational capacity.
• Coordinate every team involved and streamline the whole path, from fit‑out, through hardware deployment, to a clean handover to operations, ensuring each site comes online faster and more predictably than the last.
• Build and own the master schedule and critical path across every parallel workstream: site fit‑out, electrical and thermal build, structured cabling and fiber plant, hardware deployment (rack‑and‑stack, InfiniBand and Ethernet fabric, liquid‑cooled Blackwell and Rubin systems), commissioning, and operational handover.
• Coordinate the full cast turning a plan into capacity: Architecture, Electrical, Thermal, Structural, Hardware, Networking, Operations, and Procurement, along with external contractors and OEM partners (including Supermicro).
• Keep dependencies visible, hand‑offs clean, and decisions moving so no workstream waits on another longer than it has to.
• Manage risk, budget tracking, and reporting across the program: RAID logs, stage‑gates, and the escalations that keep a slip from becoming a stall, always driving toward time‑to‑live.
• Run the handover to operations: acceptance criteria, punch lists, and documentation, so the Operations team inherits a site that is genuinely ready to run.
• Turn each build into a repeatable playbook, so the sequencing, dependencies, and hand‑offs you get right once become the default for every expansion that follows.
• Representative projects: drive a new‑market site from lease and fit‑out to first racks online and handed over to operations on schedule; build the master program plan that sequences fit‑out, deployment, commissioning, and handover across every team; stand up the expansion playbook so the next site launches faster than the last; own the operational handover so operations inherits a site that is truly ready.

Qualifications

• Proven technical program management of complex, multi‑team infrastructure builds in data center, construction, telecom, or large‑scale IT deployment.
• Ability to build and own a real critical‑path schedule across many parallel workstreams, and hold every team to it.
• Fluency coordinating across engineering, construction and fit‑out, hardware deployment, networking, and operations teams.
• Understanding of the data center build lifecycle (fit‑out, power and cooling commissioning, structured cabling, GPU/HPC hardware deployment, and operational handover), enough to be credible, with the specialist engineering owned by the respective teams.
• Strong risk, dependency, and stakeholder management: RAID logs, stage‑gates, and clear escalation.
• Experience running vendor and contractor relationships against schedule and scope.
• Track record standardizing a repeatable delivery process across multiple projects or sites.
• Bias toward speed and ownership, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and driving them to a deployed result.

Work Mode

Hybrid, office (Helsinki, Finland or London, UK) or remote.

Travel

Significant travel to sites during fit‑out and deployment phases.

Employment Type

Full‑time and permanent.