Data Center Project Manager

Insight Global; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Data Center Project Manager to lead large-scale data center infrastructure initiatives across planning, execution, and delivery. This role requires managing budgets, schedules, and risks while coordinating across a matrixed network of vendors, OEMs, and operations.

The ideal candidate has about 10 years of PM experience in data center environments, strong executive presence, and proficiency with Smartsheet.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 years of project management experience, with significant data center infrastructure exposure.
• Experience owning project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and delivery.
• Experience in hyperscale, cloud, OEM, or large data center environments is preferred.
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate with senior leadership.
• PMP certification preferred or willingness to pursue.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end management of large-scale data center infrastructure projects, including planning, execution, tracking, and delivery.
• Own and manage budgets, schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate across matrixed teams including vendors, OEMs, operations, and leadership.
• Manage multiple workstreams and ensure accountability across non-reporting teams.
• Utilize Smartsheet and other PM tools to track schedules, deliverables, and status.
• Oversee rack builds, fiber/cabling, data center services, warehousing/logistics, and deployment.
• Partner with technical teams to define infrastructure requirements for deployments.
• Communicate project status, risks, budget considerations, and decisions to technical and executive audiences.
• Drive accountability to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

Skills

Rack builds

Fiber/cabling

Infrastructure services

Deployment

Logistics/warehousing

Executive communication

Smartsheet

Budgeting & scheduling

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Tools

Smartsheet

Job description

Can sit anywhere in US, need to be okay with extensive travel

Full Time

Pay: $150,000+

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Project Manager to lead complex, large-scale data center infrastructure projects. This individual will be responsible for driving projects from planning through execution, managing budgets and schedules, coordinating across matrixed teams, and ensuring successful delivery across technical and operational workstreams. The ideal candidate combines strong project management fundamentals, executive presence, and hands-on knowledge of data center infrastructure. Experience supporting major OEM, hyperscale, or cloud environments is highly preferred.

• Lead end-to-end management of large-scale data center infrastructure projects, including project planning, execution, tracking, and delivery.
• Own and manage project budgets, schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate across a highly matrixed environment, bringing together technical teams, vendors, OEMs, operations, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Manage multiple simultaneous workstreams while maintaining accountability across teams that may not directly report to the Project Manager.
• Utilize Smartsheet and other project management tools to track schedules, deliverables, budgets, dependencies, and project status.
• Oversee projects involving rack builds, fiber/cabling, data center services, warehousing/logistics, and infrastructure deployment.
• Partner closely with technical teams and understand the infrastructure requirements necessary to successfully execute data center deployments.
• Communicate project status, risks, budget considerations, and critical decisions to both technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Drive accountability across internal teams, external vendors, and partners to ensure projects remain on schedule and within budget.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Approximately 10 years of project management experience, with significant experience supporting data center infrastructure projects.

• Strong working knowledge of rack builds, fiber/cabling, infrastructure services, deployment, and logistics/warehousing.
• Experience working within large-scale hyperscale, cloud, OEM, or data center environments, ideally supporting organizations such as Meta, Microsoft, AWS, Google, Oracle, or similar companies.
• Demonstrated experience owning project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and delivery.
• Experience with Smartsheet strongly preferred.
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate confidently with senior leadership and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment and influence teams without direct reporting authority.
• Comfortable with extensive travel requirements.
• PMP certification preferred, or openness to obtaining one.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• PMP certification preferred.
• Project Management tools on top of Smartsheet