Deployment TPM

Ornn; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Health coverage

Free meals

Additional benefits

Job summary

Ornn is building the financial infrastructure for AI compute from its New York base. The role owns the end-to-end deployment track for build-to-order capacity, coordinating suppliers, schedules, and site readiness to prevent delays and penalties.

You will supervise a standing cadence with OEMs and component leads, ensuring firm ship dates, tracking progress, and handing off to fleet operations when capacity goes live, while providing concise updates throughout.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in technical program management or deployment in hardware, data centers or infrastructure.
• Experience holding external vendors to a schedule and escalating before a date is missed.
• Ability to read technical details and communicate status succinctly.

Responsibilities

• Own the deployment schedule end-to-end from purchase order to service.
• Run a standing cadence with suppliers: demand forecasting, All Parts In date, weekly checks, firm ship date, build, validation and shipment.
• Track component movement dates and facility readiness (power, cooling, site works, construction).
• Escalate early to surface slips and attach delay exposure.
• Hand off to fleet operations when capacity goes live and report actual in-service date.

Skills

Technical PM

Deployment

Supply chain

Job description

About Ornn

Ornn is building the financial infrastructure for AI compute. Our price indices are live on Bloomberg Terminal. We structure and trade compute hedging instruments. And we're now building a platform that brings exchange-grade mechanics like order management, matching, scheduling, and settlement to how compute capacity gets reserved and allocated. We're a lean team in New York, backed by leading venture and strategic investors.

About the Role

Almost all of the capacity Ornn sells is build-to-order. A customer signs for nodes that do not exist yet, a supplier cuts a purchase order with the OEM, and somewhere between that order and a working cluster the schedule slips. When it slips it is a problem for the customer, a problem for us, and under many of our contracts it carries steep delay penalties.

You would own the deployment track end to end: one person, one process, asking suppliers the right question at the right time, and seeing a delay far enough out that we can still do something about it.

What You'll Do

• Own the schedule for every build-to-order deployment, from purchase order to nodes in service.

• Run a standing cadence with suppliers: demand forecasting with the OEM, an All Parts In date, weekly component checks, a firm ship date, then build, validation and shipment.

• Track the components that actually move dates

• Track facility readiness in parallel: power, cooling, site works, construction and anything on site that can push a date.

• Escalate early. Surface a slip while there is still room to act, with the delay penalty exposure attached.

• Hand off cleanly to fleet operations when capacity goes live, and report the actual in-service date, since invoicing and revenue recognition run off it.

• Build the process and the tooling as you go. There is a tracker today and not much else.

Requirements

• 2+ years in technical program management, project management, deployment or supply chain, in hardware, data centers or infrastructure.

• Experience holding external vendors to a schedule, and escalating before a date is missed rather than after.

• Comfortable with the technical detail. You do not need to design a cluster, but you need to know what a missing NIC does to a ship date.

• Short, clear written updates. People should be able to read your status in ten seconds.

Nice-to-Haves

• Data center build or GPU cluster deployment experience.

• Familiarity with OEM and ODM lead times and component allocation.

• Exposure to liquidated damages, service levels or delivery terms in commercial contracts.

• Time at a neocloud, data center operator, systems integrator or hardware manufacturer.

Why This Role Matters

Ornn's customer contracts carry target delivery dates with real money behind them. Every deployment that lands late costs us penalties, credibility with that customer, and usually the next deal with them. Nobody owns that timeline today, which is exactly why this role exists. Done well, it turns delivery from something we find out about into something we manage.

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits include competitive salary, meaningful equity, health coverage, free meals, and additional benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Ornn is committed to building a diverse team. We evaluate candidates based on their ability to do the work, not on pedigree or background. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.