AI-Driven Data Center Program Manager

Crux, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage foryou

401(k) with company match

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Crux, Inc. is seeking a seasoned program manager to own the technical and commercial vetting of capacity deals for our data center portfolio.

You will ensure deals are financially sound by validating schedule, equipment costs, and composition before leadership review, interfacing across Construction, Energy, MEP, and Finance to keep projects on target. You will track live projects against approved baselines, escalate variances early, and translate field status into Finance-ready reporting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data center construction, capital projects, or infrastructure delivery with direct P&L, cost, or schedule ownership.
• Demonstrated experience vetting or negotiating capacity/commercial terms against real technical and cost data, not top-down assumptions.
• Comfortable moving fluently across finance, construction, and technology — this is not a single-lane specialist seat.

Responsibilities

• Vet the technical and commercial terms of new capacity deals — schedule, equipment cost, equipment composition — before they're recommended to leadership, right-sizing commitments rather than defaulting to the number a partner asks for.
• Track every live data center project in the portfolio against its approved cost and schedule baseline, and own the process for flagging and escalating variance early.
• Partner with Data Center Construction, Energy, and MEP Systems teams to translate field-level execution status into Finance-ready program reporting.
• Own the interface between build-side execution and the cost and margin model of record — your data is what Finance's models are actually built on.
• Run the change-control process for scope, schedule, or cost changes on active projects, with sign-off gates that keep Finance and Development aligned in real time.
• Build and maintain the tools that make deal vetting fast and repeatable — this cannot be a one-off analysis redone from scratch on every deal.
• Default to AI-agentic workflows for cost/schedule reconciliation and variance tracking, rather than adding headcount to keep up with portfolio growth.

Job description

Crux, Inc. is seeking a seasoned program manager to own the technical and commercial vetting of capacity deals for our data center portfolio.

You will ensure deals are financially sound by validating schedule, equipment costs, and composition before leadership review, interfacing across Construction, Energy, MEP, and Finance to keep projects on target. You will track live projects against approved baselines, escalate variances early, and translate field status into Finance-ready reporting.