Senior GPU & Data Center Deployment Lead

Volta; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity in Volta

Retirement contributions

Health benefits

Vacation days

Job summary

Volta is seeking a Technical Program Manager for GPU and Data Center Deployments to own end-to-end program delivery for data center infrastructure and AI clusters. You will coordinate across construction, infrastructure, networking, and operations to drive delivery from planning through handoff, navigating ambiguity and surface gaps before blockers arise.

The role requires 5+ years delivering complex data center or GPU/AI cluster deployments, with hands-on deployment experience and the ability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering complex data center physical infrastructure programs or large-scale GPU/AI cluster deployments in fast-moving environments.
• Demonstrated experience bridging construction handover and cluster deployment — candidates who are network-only or construction-only will not be a fit.
• Hands-on GPU deployment experience, including: GPU cluster deployment and activation (NVIDIA infrastructure preferred); Full-stack secure AI factory deployment across compute, networking, storage, and security layers; Ability to read, interpret, and operationalize highly technical customer and vendor specifications.
• Strong understanding of AI/GPU infrastructure including power density, cooling (CDU/DLC), networking, and deployment sequencing.
• Familiarity with how construction, low-voltage, and commissioning activities affect deployment readiness and sequencing.
• Proven ability to lead through influence — you don't own the execution teams, but you are accountable for delivery outcomes.
• Proven ability to manage vendor and contractor relationships, including understanding schedule and reputational risks.
• Ability to develop and present executive-level program status, risk summaries, and key decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills — able to ensure teams at all levels understand priorities and dependencies.
• Relentlessly resourceful: you thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and drive execution beyond your defined scope without being directed to do so.
• Startup or scale-up experience alongside enterprise pedigree is strongly preferred — candidates who have operated at both ends of that spectrum understand the range of environments this role will demand.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of GPU cluster activations and data center infrastructure programs, from initial strategic planning through operational handoff.
• Drive multi-threaded bring-up programs spanning hardware, networking, power, and cooling — owning plans, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams responsible for construction, infrastructure, network, hardware, ICT, commissioning, and operations, including vendor and contractor partners.
• Anticipate downstream impacts of technical sequencing decisions on capacity, schedule, and cluster performance; identify and resolve blockers before they surface.
• Manage and hold accountable vendors, integration contractors, and third-party service providers across the full deployment lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering to improve cluster turn-up reliability, repeatability, and automation — reducing time-to-serve for new capacity.
• Support network operations and end-to-end physical and logical bring-up, including on-site deployment, rack cabling, and coordination with engineering teams.
• Maintain momentum through changing requirements, tight timelines, and cross-time-zone execution.
• Influence senior executive and c-suite strategic approaches.
• Deliver crisp executive-level program status briefings covering schedule health, risks, key decisions, and escalation paths across a broad portfolio of concurrent programs.

Skills

GPU deployment

Data center infra

Program management

Vendor management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Automation & tooling

Education

Degree in hard science or engineering

DCD / PMP / CDCPM certifications

Tools

Smartsheet

Confluence

Jira

Notion

Job description

Volta is seeking a Technical Program Manager for GPU and Data Center Deployments to own end-to-end program delivery for data center infrastructure and AI clusters. You will coordinate across construction, infrastructure, networking, and operations to drive delivery from planning through handoff, navigating ambiguity and surface gaps before blockers arise.

The role requires 5+ years delivering complex data center or GPU/AI cluster deployments, with hands-on deployment experience and the ability