Senior Construction Project Manager

fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Construction Project Manager to run a data center project end to end—budget, schedule, contracts, and stakeholders from notice to proceed through turnover.

You will manage GC and trade contracts, handle change orders and claims, and lead the owner–architect–contractor rhythm to move decisions at build speed. Bonus: EPC or design‑build experience and a proven delivery record.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale construction projects (e.g., $100M+).
• Negotiated change orders effectively with stakeholders.
• Led meetings that yielded clear decisions with owners and dates.
• Managed design teams and contractors simultaneously without creating bottlenecks.
• Created project documentation that stands up to claims or audits.

Responsibilities

• Run end-to-end data center construction projects: budget, schedule, contracts, and stakeholders from notice to proceed through turnover.
• Manage GC and trade contracts commercially: change orders, pay applications, claims, and closeout with no surprises.
• Chair the owner–architect–contractor rhythm and keep decisions moving at build speed.
• Hand the finished building to commissioning and operations clean, with documentation that survives the first audit.

Skills

Project management

Construction management

Contract negotiation

Stakeholder management

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built – but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The Construction Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Put gigawatts in the ground, faster than anyone has. We're delivering one of the largest data center buildouts of its kind, with many sites running at once. Traditional construction management breaks at this scale, so we're building the model that replaces it.
• Throw out traditional construction and invent how gigawatts get built. Tons of tools, layers of process, and administrative drag don't get you there. You'll strip all of that out and win by solving the real problem and beating the goal, not by managing toward it.
• Productize the data center so we can build it a thousand times. You'll turn one-off construction into a repeatable, modular build, where the hundredth site goes up faster and cleaner than the first. That repeatability is the only way to reach the scale we're targeting.

Role Scope

Run a data center construction project end to end: budget, schedule, contracts, and stakeholders from notice to proceed through turnover.

Manage GC and trade contracts commercially: change orders, pay applications, claims, and closeout with no surprises.

Chair the owner-architect-contractor rhythm and keep decisions moving at build speed.

Hand the finished building to commissioning and operations clean, with documentation that survives the first audit.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've project-managed $100M+ construction and brought it in on the numbers.
• You've negotiated change orders where the contractor's position was well-argued and wrong.
• You run meetings that end in decisions with owners and dates.
• You've managed design teams and contractors simultaneously without becoming the bottleneck.
• Your project documentation has survived a claim or an audit.

Bonus: Data center or mission critical projects. EPC or design-build contracts. Cost control tooling. Commissioning handover.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.