Senior Program Manager, Manufacturing

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 244,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a senior Program Controls leader to drive master schedules, cost controls, and risk management across a portfolio of gigawatt‑scale data center builds. You will establish a single source of truth on schedule, budget, and risk that delivery leads and executives trust for decisions.

The role requires coordinating across construction, procurement, design, and commissioning, standing up scalable tooling, and creating a model usable from day one.

Qualifications

• You’ve owned program controls, schedule, cost, and risk across a portfolio of large capital projects.
• You’ve built a reporting cadence that executives actually trust to make decisions.
• You catch schedule slips and cost overruns weeks before they surface.
• You’ve stood up program controls standards or tooling from scratch and gotten multiple teams to use them.
• You coordinate across construction, procurement, and design without losing track of interdependencies.

Responsibilities

• Run the master schedule and cost controls across a portfolio of concurrent data center builds.
• Build the reporting rhythm that provides a single source of truth on schedule, budget, and risk for leadership.
• Drive the integrated risk register from identification to mitigation and surface exposures early.
• Stand up the program controls tooling and standards for new sites to plug into the model from day one.
• Coordinate across construction, procurement, design and commissioning to keep interdependencies visible.

Skills

Program controls

Schedule management

Cost management

Risk management

Reporting cadence

Tools

Primavera P6

Earned value 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 acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them – with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators.

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.

Role Scope

• Run the master schedule and cost controls across a portfolio of concurrent gigawatt‑scale data center builds, keeping every site's plan tied to the forward pipeline.
• Build the reporting rhythm that gives delivery leads and executives a single source of truth on schedule, budget, and risk across all active programs.
• Drive the integrated risk register from identification to mitigation, surfacing schedule and cost exposure weeks before it lands on the critical path.
• Stand up the program controls tooling and standards that let a new site plug into the same schedule, cost, and reporting model on day one.
• Coordinate across construction, procurement, design, and commissioning to keep interdependencies visible and handoffs clean.

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 owned program controls, schedule, cost, and risk, across a portfolio of large capital projects running at the same time.
• You’ve built a reporting cadence that executives actually trust to make decisions, not a deck no one reads.
• You catch schedule slips and cost overruns weeks before they surface, because your integrated schedule and risk register are live, not stale.
• You’ve stood up program controls standards or tooling from scratch and gotten multiple teams to actually use them.
• You coordinate across construction, procurement, and design without losing track of the interdependencies that break schedules.
• You write clearly enough to turn a tangled program status into a decision and a next step for a delivery lead or a CEO.
• Bonus: Data center, mission‑critical, or large industrial construction. Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling at portfolio scale. Earned value management. Modular or repeatable build programs.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $244K - $275K

Equity & Transparency

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.