Technical Program Manager

Verda; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity compensation

Local benefits

Job summary

Verda is seeking a Technical Program Manager to orchestrate cross-team programs that deploy new data centers and infrastructure across Europe, the US, and Asia. You will connect data-center operations, networking, storage, SRE, platform, and cloud teams into a sequenced, tracked program, surfacing dependencies and risks early to ensure customer dates are met.

You will own the plan, turn deployment milestones into commitments, and drive accountability across all workstreams while coordinating

Qualifications

• Must manage complex, cross-team plans and identify critical path.
• Strong written communication for engineers, leaders, and customers.
• Experience leading programs across multiple engineering teams and vendors.
• Comfort with ambiguity and fast-changing environments; provide structure.

Responsibilities

• Run end-to-end regional turn-ups from hardware handover to customer-ready.
• Maintain a single program plan with milestones, owners, dependencies, and critical path.
• Convert deployment dates into commitments and flag risks early.
• Ensure each workstream has a named owner and address gaps.
• Lead infrastructure changes affecting multiple teams and coordinate maintenance windows.
• Communicate program status to stakeholders and customers.
• Maintain a risk register and drive closure of issues.
• Conduct post-mortems and feed lessons into future checklists.
• Collaborate with Engineering leads to mature automation and tooling.

Skills

Multi-team planning

Influence without authority

Clear communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Data-driven

Calm under pressure

Education

No specific degree listed

Tools

Linear

Jira

Job description

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work. We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco. Join Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.

Why Verda

• Cash and equity compensation along with local benefits.

• 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

About the role

We're looking for a Technical Program Manager to run the cross-team programs that bring new data centers and infrastructure changes to life. Verda is opening new regions across Europe, the US and Asia, and every one of them depends on several teams landing their part in the right order: data-center operations, networking, storage, SRE, platform and cloud.

You’ll own the plan that connects them. You’ll turn a signed site and a customer date into a sequenced, tracked program, surface the dependencies and risks early, and make sure the date we give a customer is one the teams can meet.

Your responsibilities

• Run new-region turn-ups end to end, from hardware handover to customer-ready, across DC ops, network, storage, SRE, platform and cloud

• Build and maintain one plan per program: milestones, owners, dependencies and critical path, kept in Linear rather than in Slack threads

• Turn deployment-plan dates (hardware installed, first token, customer RFS) into commitments each team has agreed to, and flag early when a date is at risk

• Make sure every workstream has a named owner; chase the gaps nobody has picked up

• Run fleet-wide infrastructure changes that touch many teams, for example OS version alignment, network-stack updates and maintenance windows

• Own stakeholder communication for those programs: status updates, maintenance notices and customer-facing dates via Sales and Clusters

• Keep a program risk register and drive decisions to closure with the people who own them

• Run post-mortems after each turn-up and feed the lessons into the next site's checklist.

• Collaborate with the Engineering leads, focusing on maturing automation, process and tooling.

Your key competencies

• Can hold a complex, multi-team plan in your head and on paper, and spot the critical path

• Influences without authority; engineers trust you because you understand the work

• Clear, brief written communication for engineers, leadership and customers

• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast change; you bring structure without slowing teams down

• Data-led: you track progress by evidence, not by status colours

• Calm under pressure when dates and customers are on the line

Required Experience

• 5+ years as a TPM or technical project lead on infrastructure, data-center or cloud programs

• Technical grounding in servers, Linux, networking and storage, enough to follow an engineering discussion and challenge a plan

• Delivered programs spanning several engineering teams and external vendors

• Experience with engineering tooling such as Linear or Jira, and with written planning and decision records

Preferred Experience

• Data-center build-outs or region launches at a cloud or GPU provider

• GPU / HPC infrastructure, InfiniBand, bare-metal provisioning or hardware lifecycle

• Working across time zones (Europe and US)

• SRE or infrastructure engineering background