Infrastructure Delivery TPM — AI Datacenter Programs (Hybrid)

Lightning-Ai; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity (RSUs)

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Winter break

Parental leave

Learning & development allowance

Wellness stipend

Sabbatical

Job summary

Lightning AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join the Infrastructure Delivery team. You will own and drive cross-functional programs spanning compute, network, storage, hardware, and data center operations, partnering with Senior TPMs to deliver end-to-end infrastructure initiatives.

You will develop program depth across datacenter and AI infrastructure, influence planning, and ensure on-time execution while navigating evolving requirements in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, infrastructure program management, or similar.
• Experience driving programs within infrastructure, cloud, platform, SRE, systems, networking, hardware, or datacenter environments.
• Strong program management fundamentals: project planning, milestones, critical path, dependencies, RAID, stakeholder management.
• Ability to understand technical architecture, requirements, and dependencies without needing to be the engineer implementing them.
• Proven ability to drive execution across multiple technical teams without direct authority.
• Comfortable with evolving requirements, priorities, ownership, and processes.
• High learning agility and interest in developing expertise across datacenter and AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own defined infrastructure workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables within larger programs.
• Drive day-to-day execution across engineering, operations, vendors, and external partners.
• Build and maintain project plans, critical paths, dependencies, RAID logs, and execution status.
• Coordinate across Infrastructure Engineering, Network, DC Operations, Platform, Security, Hardware, and other teams.
• Connect engineering execution in Jira to broader infrastructure milestones and delivery commitments.
• Identify blockers and cross-functional dependencies early and drive them through resolution.
• Support hardware deployments, network and storage initiatives, datacenter expansions, migrations, and capacity growth.
• Provide clear, concise updates on progress, risks, decisions, and mitigation plans.
• Help improve Infra Delivery processes, tooling, documentation, and execution frameworks.
• Progressively take on broader scope toward independently leading end-to-end infrastructure programs.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Infrastructure experience

Strong communicator

Cross-functional leadership

Learning agility

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

Job description

Lightning AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join the Infrastructure Delivery team. You will own and drive cross-functional programs spanning compute, network, storage, hardware, and data center operations, partnering with Senior TPMs to deliver end-to-end infrastructure initiatives.

You will develop program depth across datacenter and AI infrastructure, influence planning, and ensure on-time execution while navigating evolving requirements in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.