Data Center AI Factory Program Lead

The Material Group; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

Meaningful equity

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Paid Holidays

Relocation support

Job summary

The Material Group is seeking an experienced program manager to own end-to-end data center and AI factory operations from day one through handoff. You will drive execution across facilities, hardware, and networking while maintaining focus on milestones and delivery.

This role requires coordinating across facilities, engineering, and executive leadership, building playbooks, and securing capacity with trusted vendors to meet customer commitments and strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience running complex infrastructure programs.
• Ability to keep facilities, engineering, and executive audiences aligned under pressure.
• Program governance that adds accountability, not bureaucracy.
• Playbooks, templates, and systems that let technical teams move faster.
• Demonstrated experience securing data center capacity.
• Rolodex of high-impact vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data center operations programs from hardware bring-up through steady state.
• Build and maintain integrated schedules across facilities, network, and hardware.
• Establish governance including milestones, incident and change review, and decision logs.
• Create playbooks and systems that let engineers focus on engineering.
• Identify and evaluate new data center sites against power, land, and connectivity needs.
• Own vendor and external partner relationships, ensuring scope, schedule, and quality.
• Tie operations to business outcomes and customer commitments.

Skills

Infrastructure programs

Executive alignment

Governance

Playbooks & systems

Capacity planning

Vendor management

Job description

The Material Group is seeking an experienced program manager to own end-to-end data center and AI factory operations from day one through handoff. You will drive execution across facilities, hardware, and networking while maintaining focus on milestones and delivery.

This role requires coordinating across facilities, engineering, and executive leadership, building playbooks, and securing capacity with trusted vendors to meet customer commitments and strategic objectives.