Technical Program Manager

Crux AI

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) match (USA)

Life insurance & disability

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Crux AI is building a high-velocity, integrated AI infrastructure platform in the U.S. We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to own and scale the translation layer between Finance and Operations across a multi-billion-dollar build pipeline.

You will design and implement a repeatable process to translate capacity plans, cost models, and deal terms into a single, defensible view used by leadership to act without relitigating every project.

Qualifications

8+ years leading large-scale technical or infrastructure programs.
Fluent in translating between Finance and Infrastructure/Operations with shared artifacts.
Experience with cloud, data centers, or capital-intensive infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Own the program cadence connecting Finance, Development, and Operations.
Translate capacity plan and cost/margin inputs into Finance-ready outputs.
Build and run intake, review, and escalation gates for active projects.
Track commitments to closure and flag deviations before delays.
Partner with Finance to ensure models are fed by reconciled program data.
Build reporting and status mechanisms for leadership visibility.
Default to AI-agentic workflows for status tracking and reporting.

Skills

Program management

Finance-Infra translation

Cloud / data center

AI-agentic workflows

Education

PMP certification

Tools

Financial modeling

AWS/GCP

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 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.

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