Sr. Technical Program Manager

Prime Data Centers; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary 180–200k USD

401k with up to 4% match

Premium health/dental/vision/life/dis.

Paid time off

Job summary

Prime Data Centers seeks an experienced program leader to own planning, coordination, and execution across a growing D&E project portfolio. You will enable design, engineering, and construction workstreams to run smoothly while maintaining visibility and accountability for milestones and risks.

This IC role offers broad exposure across disciplines, with leveling and compensation calibrated to experience. Expect ownership of processes, dashboards, and partner relationships that scale with the

Qualifications

• 6+ years leading technical programs or complex initiatives — construction, real estate development, infrastructure, or hardware/engineering environments strongly preferred.
• Strong systems thinking; able to translate strategy into executable, trackable plans — and to build the tracking systems (Asana, Procore, or equivalent) that make that possible for others, not just yourself.
• Confidence working across senior technical and business stakeholders — comfortable pushing back on an unrealistic date or dependency with data, not staying quiet.
• Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments — you'll be building parts of this operating rhythm from scratch, not running an existing playbook.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain systems to enable D&E's design, engineering, and construction workstreams.
• Define milestones, success criteria, and delivery timelines; own the systems (Asana, Procore, and equivalents) that make status answerable in one lookup, not a scramble.
• Track progress and surface risk, scope, and schedule tradeoffs early enough for leaders to act on them — not after they've already landed.
• Progress programmatic initiatives to ensure a scalable, industry-leading D&E team into the future.
• Serve as the connective tissue between D&E and Construction, Operations, Commercial, Development, Procurement, and Sustainability — driving alignment on process, priorities, and sequencing, not just reporting on them.
• Facilitate decision-making forums and escalation paths; hold teams accountable to agreed plans and timelines without relying on formal authority.
• Represent D&E's program status and risk posture directly to stakeholders and leadership, including in forums the VP, Design & Engineering isn't in.
• Define and maintain program dashboards and status reporting for D&E leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Support quarterly and monthly planning cadences, including RFP/procurement tracking and Prime Engineering Standards distribution to stakeholders.
• Identify and close recurring process gaps — a report nobody trusts, a handoff that keeps dropping — without being told to.
• Facilitate third-party business reviews to ensure true collaborative partnerships are maintained.

Skills

Systems thinking

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Asana

Procore

Job description

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

Enable D&E leaders to scale by owning the planning, coordination, and execution mechanics of a growing project portfolio — so the team spends its time leading and building, not chasing status.

D&E is a small, high-leverage team carrying a workload that outpaces its headcount. This is a high-impact Individual Contributor (IC) role with broad visibility across Design, Engineering, Construction, Procurement, and Operations — not a project-coordination or administrative seat. You'll have real influence over how D&E plans, tracks, and delivers, how D&E develops and designs for the future, and real accountability for whether that execution is predictable.

This role is intentionally banded across “Sr.” and “Principal” levels — final leveling, title, and compensation will be calibrated to the experience and scope the selected candidate brings, not fixed in advance.

What You'll Do

PROGRAM PLANNING & EXECUTION

• Establish and maintain systems to enable D&E's design, engineering, and construction workstreams.
• Define milestones, success criteria, and delivery timelines; own the systems (Asana, Procore, and equivalents) that make status answerable in one lookup, not a scramble.
• Track progress and surface risk, scope, and schedule tradeoffs early enough for leaders to act on them — not after they've already landed.
• Progress programmatic initiatives to ensure a scalable, industry-leading D&E team into the future.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION

• Serve as the connective tissue between D&E and Construction, Operations, Commercial, Development, Procurement, and Sustainability — driving alignment on process, priorities, and sequencing, not just reporting on them.
• Facilitate decision-making forums and escalation paths; hold teams accountable to agreed plans and timelines without relying on formal authority.
• Represent D&E's program status and risk posture directly to stakeholders and leadership, including in forums the VP, Design & Engineering isn't in.

METRICS, REPORTING & OPERATING RHYTHM

• Define and maintain program dashboards and status reporting for D&E leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Support quarterly and monthly planning cadences, including RFP/procurement tracking and Prime Engineering Standards distribution to stakeholders.
• Identify and close recurring process gaps — a report nobody trusts, a handoff that keeps dropping — without being told to.
• Facilitate third-party business reviews to ensure true collaborative partnerships are maintained.

Qualifications

• 6+ years leading technical programs or complex initiatives — construction, real estate development, infrastructure, or complex hardware/engineering environments strongly preferred.
• Strong systems thinking; able to translate strategy into executable, trackable plans — and to build the tracking systems (Asana, Procore, or equivalent) that make that possible for others, not just yourself.
• Confidence working across senior technical and business stakeholders — comfortable pushing back on an unrealistic date or dependency with data, not staying quiet.
• Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments — you'll be building parts of this operating rhythm from scratch, not running an existing playbook.
• Data center, hyperscale, or mission-critical facilities experience is a strong plus, not a requirement.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification is a strong plus, not a requirement.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range at $180-200k and performance bonus program
• 401k fully vested upon enrollment, up to a 4% employer match
• 100% employee premiums paid by employer for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability
• Paid Time Off + Sick time

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.