Technical Program Manager

Crux AI; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Hybrid schedule

Bonus and incentive compensation

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Crux AI in the United States is seeking a senior Program Manager to build a Finance-to-Operations translation layer for its multi‑billion-dollar data center build pipeline. You will design processes from scratch, define gates, and deliver an integrated view of cost, schedule, and risk for Finance, Development, and Operations.

The role demands 8+ years of large-scale infra program leadership, experience translating between Finance and Infrastructure, and a hands-on, AI‑agentic mindset.

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading large-scale infrastructure programs from scratch.
• Fluency translating between Finance and Infrastructure teams.
• Experience with capital-intensive data center or cloud projects.

Responsibilities

• Own the cadence and gates unifying Finance, Development, and Operations.
• Translate capacity plans and cost models into Finance-ready outputs.
• Build intake, review, and escalation processes for active projects.
• Track commitments to closure and surface risks early.
• Collaborate with Financial modeling for reconciled data.
• Develop automated status reporting and dashboards.

Skills

Program management

Finance-Infra translation

Stakeholder management

Cloud / data center

AI-agentic workflows

Ambiguity tolerance

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's in engineering or similar field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure

Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.

Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

You will own the translation layer between Crux's Finance function and its infrastructure delivery pipeline. Reporting to, Crux's Chief Program Manager, you will run the program discipline that keeps a multi-billion-dollar build pipeline legible to Finance, Development, and Operations at once: translating capacity plans, cost and margin models, and deal terms into a common, defensible view that leadership can act on without relitigating every project from scratch. This is a process-from-scratch seat — there is no inherited PMO playbook to run, only the mandate to build one, fast, without adding headcount to compensate for missing rigor.

In this role, you will:

• Own the program cadence connecting Finance, Development, and Operations on every active data center and capacity commitment — one integrated view of cost, schedule, and deal status, not three disconnected ones.

• Translate capacity plan of record and cost/margin model of record inputs into Finance-ready outputs, and translate Finance's constraints back into terms Development and Operations can execute against.

• Build and run the intake, review, and escalation gates for the active project portfolio, so nothing material moves without the right functions weighing in at the right stage.

• Track commitments made in program reviews to closure — flag deviations, at-risk milestones, and sequencing conflicts before they become delays, not after.

• Partner directly with Finance's financial modeling team to ensure their models are fed by current, reconciled program data rather than stale inputs.

• Build the reporting and status mechanisms that let leadership see risk early — a program that surfaces its own bad news is the goal, not the exception.

• Default to AI-agentic workflows for status tracking, reconciliation, and reporting — this function does not scale by adding coordinators.

SIGNALS OF SUCCESS

After 60 days in this role:

• Program cadence and escalation gates are stood up and running across at least one active workstream.

• First integrated Finance/Development/Operations status view is in use, replacing ad hoc updates.

After 6 months:

• Commitments-to-closure tracking is live across the full active portfolio, with zero silently-dropped action items.

• Finance is running its models off your reconciled data, not parallel spreadsheets.

After 1 year:

• The Finance and Ops translation layer runs as a repeatable system, not a personal effort — positioned to scale as Crux's build pipeline grows.

EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH

Experiences

• 8+ years running large-scale technical or infrastructure programs, with direct experience building program process from scratch rather than operating inside an existing PMO.

• Demonstrated fluency translating between Finance and Infrastructure/Operations — you’ve built the artifacts (models, trackers, gates) that let both sides trust the same numbers.

• Cloud, data center, or other capital-intensive infrastructure background; comfortable with multi-year, multi-vendor delivery timelines.

Attributes

• You build the system that makes the next status meeting boring, through discipline, not heroics — you don’t paper over a conflict between Finance and Ops, you surface it and help resolve it.

• You are the honest broker between functions — you hold Finance and Ops to the same numbers and say so when they don’t match.

Mindset

• High tolerance for ambiguity. You design structure where none exists yet, rather than waiting for one to arrive.

• AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.

Nice to have (preferred, not required)

• Experience at a neocloud or hyperscaler (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft) in a technical program management role spanning Finance and Infrastructure.

• Exposure to capex/commitment tracking or prepay-style capacity commercial structures.

• Familiarity with Agile or equivalent program management methodology applied to physical infrastructure delivery, not just software.

• Formal PMP or equivalent program management credential.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Crux

• We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• Company-paid life insurance and disability

• Full suite of other optional benefits

• 401(k) Plan with 4% company match

• Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work