Chief Capacity & Infrastructure Planning

Blacksmith Agency; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity

401K match

Unlimited PTO

Annual offsite

Early-exercise stock options

Parental leave

Job summary

Blacksmith is building an expanding CI infrastructure platform and seeks a capacity planning leader to own compute, storage, networking, and datacenter capacity, forecasting demand, and aligning with founders and engineering. You will forecast capacity growth, manage hardware procurement, and develop deployment plans across regions.

This role requires strong vendor relationships and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders to scale our footprint.

Qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale infrastructure, cloud, hosting, or datacenter environments.
• Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations.
• Balance long-term planning with day-to-day operational realities.
• Analytical mindset with uncertainty-driven decision making.
• Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.
• Enjoy solving operational problems at scale.
• Be present in SF/NYC five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure.
• Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth.
• Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements.
• Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners.
• Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers.
• Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts.
• Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities.
• Track utilization and ensure infrastructure investments are deployed efficiently.
• Build processes and systems to scale Blacksmith from thousands of servers to many times that number.

Skills

Capacity planning

Forecasting

Vendor management

Infrastructure operations

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Datacenter operations

Job description

Blacksmith is building an expanding CI infrastructure platform and seeks a capacity planning leader to own compute, storage, networking, and datacenter capacity, forecasting demand, and aligning with founders and engineering. You will forecast capacity growth, manage hardware procurement, and develop deployment plans across regions.

This role requires strong vendor relationships and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders to scale our footprint.