Director, Technical Training and Development

Prime Data Centers; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Premium benefits

Paid time off

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Prime Data Centers seeks a Director of Technical Training and Development to lead evolution, execution, and continuous improvement of its critical facilities training platform. You will scale an existing function into a repeatable, high-performing operating model, coordinating across internal teams and external partners.

This senior role requires hands-on leadership with a focus on safety, workforce readiness, and business objectives, traveling 20–40% as needed to Prime's regional sites.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in training or workforce development.
• Experience delivering training for complex data center or industrial environments.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple functions and regions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end training across sites, from onboarding to certification.
• Develop standards, governance, and playbooks to scale the program.
• Lead and coach the Training & Development team and partners.
• Partner with Ops, Eng, EHS, HR and leadership to align needs and plans.

Skills

Leadership experience

Training programs

Cross-functional work

Safety compliance

Operations knowledge

Travel readiness

Tools

LMS platforms

Job description

Director, Technical Training and Development

About this position

About Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers develops, acquires, and operates data centers for some of the world's largest enterprises. A private firm owned by a group controlling $6 billion in assets, with a 15-year tenure in technology and real estate development, Prime provides customers with ownership options and dynamic leasing models, defining a true corporate partnership.

About the role

Prime Data Centers is seeking a highly accomplished Director of Technical Training and Development to lead the evolution, execution, and continuous improvement of our critical facilities training platform.

This is a unique opportunity to elevate an existing but still-maturing function within a fast-growing organization. The successful candidate will serve as a senior leader responsible for taking Prime's current training program and building it into an excellent, scalable operating model — establishing the standards, processes, and team capabilities that enable Prime's long-term growth. This leader will act as a force multiplier across internal teams and external partners, ensuring training outcomes support operational excellence, safety, workforce readiness, and business objectives.

Initially operating in a player-coach capacity, this role will combine hands‑on training leadership with organizational development, helping transform Prime's existing training program into a scalable, high‑performing function.

What you'll do

Prime Data Centers is seeking a highly accomplished Director of Technical Training and Development to lead the evolution, execution, and continuous improvement of our critical facilities training platform.

This is a unique opportunity to elevate an existing but still-maturing function within a fast-growing organization. The successful candidate will serve as a senior leader responsible for taking Prime's current training program and building it into an excellent, scalable operating model — establishing the standards, processes, and team capabilities that enable Prime's long-term growth. This leader will act as a force multiplier across internal teams and external partners, ensuring training outcomes support operational excellence, safety, workforce readiness, and business objectives.

Initially operating in a player-coach capacity, this role will combine hands‑on training leadership with organizational development, helping transform Prime's existing training program into a scalable, high‑performing function.

Why This Role Matters

This role is foundational to Prime's next phase of growth. As the company expands its hyperscale and AI‑ready data center portfolio, the Director of Technical Training and Development will be responsible for taking Prime's existing training foundation and building the systems, standards, and team capabilities that enable predictable, scalable workforce readiness across multiple sites and regions.

This leader will help transform training delivery from site‑by‑site, ad hoc execution into a repeatable, excellent operating model — ensuring Prime can continue to grow while maintaining safety, quality, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

Training Execution & Delivery

Own end-to‑end training execution across all sites — from onboarding through advanced certification and ongoing proficiency.

Ensure training aligns with Prime's MOP/SOP/EOP standards, customer requirements, and regulatory requirements.

Serve as an escalation point for complex training and workforce-readiness issues, making risk-informed decisions that balance operational continuity with training quality.

Lead training delivery across Electrical, Mechanical, Safety & Compliance, Procedural (MOP/SOP/EOP), and Leadership/Soft‑Skills disciplines.

Oversee curriculum development and integration; formalize training standards, competency criteria, and governance to close existing gaps and support scalability.

Serve as the primary training interface across Operations, Engineering, EHS, HR, and Site/Executive Leadership, translating technical needs into clear training plans.

Partner with site teams to identify skill gaps and remove roadblocks.

Manage third‑party training vendors, certification bodies, and LMS providers — setting clear scopes, deliverables, and accountability for quality, schedule, and budget.

Program Development & Operational Excellence

Evaluate Prime's current training program end‑to‑end and design delivery models, review processes, and governance frameworks to elevate it.

Build repeatable standards, workflows, and certification playbooks; introduce program‑level planning, forecasting, and reporting.

Drive continuous improvement to increase efficiency, predictability, and quality as the workforce grows.

Organizational Leadership

Build and scale the Training & Development function: team structure, hiring plans, and career paths.

Recruit, coach, and develop high‑performing leaders and ICs.

Lead as a hands‑on player‑coach while building scalable organizational capability.

Required

Significant leadership experience within training, learning & development, or workforce development organizations.

Experience delivering or improving training programs for complex mission‑critical, data center, hyperscale, industrial, or large‑scale operational environments.

Proven success leading multidisciplinary training teams and coordinating across multiple functions and regions.

Strong understanding of critical power systems, cooling infrastructure, safety protocols, and operational procedures.

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent training initiatives and competing priorities.

Extensive experience managing training vendors, certification bodies, and external delivery partners.

Strong business acumen and ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and workforce readiness.

Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.

Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high‑growth environments with evolving priorities.

Willingness and ability to travel 20–40% of the time, including overnight travel, to Prime's regional site.

Preferred

Experience delivering training for hyperscale, colocation, mission‑critical, or campus‑scale operations.

Experience supporting AI‑ready and high‑density computing environments.

Demonstrated success improving and scaling existing teams, organizations, processes, and operating models — not just building from a blank slate.

Experience working within a rapidly growing developer, operator, owner, or technology organization.

Leadership Attributes We Value

Builder mindset with a passion for improving systems, teams, and scalable processes.

Bias for action and pragmatic execution.

Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.

High ownership mentality with accountability for outcomes rather than activities.

Ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.

Collaborative leader who builds trust through clarity, follow‑through, and results.

Motivated by creating lasting organizational impact and enabling long‑term growth.

Why Prime

Shape the future of a rapidly growing hyperscale and AI‑ready data center platform.

Take an existing training foundation and turn it into an industry‑leading program.

Build and lead a high‑impact Training & Development organization.

Partner directly with executive leadership to drive company growth.

Work on some of the industry's most complex and innovative mission‑critical infrastructure projects.

Leave a legacy by helping define how Prime trains and develops the people who run its data centers.

Benefits

Competitive salary rangeof $180-230k along with an annual performance bonus program

An employer dollar-for-dollar 401k match up to 4% that is fully vested upon enrollment

100% employee premiums paid by employer for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability

Over 4-weeks of Paid Time Off + Sick time

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.Prime is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, protected veteran or military status, disability status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.