Technical Program Manager (Global Expansion, Network infrastructure)

Coreweave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Coreweave seeks a senior program leader to drive the network backbone and fiber connectivity across new data center sites. You will own end-to-end planning, routing, carrier selection, contracting, construction, splicing, testing, and lit service turn-up to ensure milestones land ahead of power and compute turn-up.

In this role you will manage interdependencies, track commitments across Legal, Finance, Engineering, and Operations, and coordinate with external vendors to meet aggressive expansion

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical program management, program operations, or strategic analytics within data center, network infrastructure, telecommunications, or capital-intensive sectors.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and drive consensus in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Solid understanding of hardware development lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end program plan for network backbone and fiber connectivity at each new market and site - from route planning and carrier/dark fiber selection through contracting, construction, splicing, acceptance testing, and lit service turn-up.
• Drive cross-functional accountability across Legal, Finance, Engineering, and Operations: track commitments, follow up on action items, elevate blockers, and keep teams moving.
• Manage carrier, dark fiber provider, subsea consortium, and construction partner deliverables against schedule, quality, and diversity requirements.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and Sourcing to move agreements through negotiation and execution on the program timeline.
• Maintain the master interdependency tracker linking international pipeline to domestic development pipeline and surface resource conflicts, sequencing risks, and capacity constraints.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Program management

Networking hardware

Vendor management

DWDM/optical transport

Routing and interconnection

Jira/Confluence

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

MBA

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Sheets

Job description

• This is a senior individual contributor role with high visibility and cross-functional reach. You will not manage people - you will manage programs, processes, and accountability across an organization that is scaling faster than its existing playbooks
• A core focus of this role is the network backbone and long-haul fiber connectivity that makes each new site usable
• Data center capacity is only as valuable as the connectivity that reaches it, and fiber has the longest and least forgiving lead time of any dependency in the expansion pipeline - dark fiber and IRU negotiations, carrier and subsea capacity procurement, permitting and right-of-way, conduit and duct builds, landing station and cable landing point coordination, metro rings, and cross-connects at interconnection facilities
• You will own the sequencing of that connectivity workstream against site readiness, ensuring fiber, transport, and interconnect milestones land ahead of power and compute turn-up rather than behind it
• Own and continuously maintain the master interdependency tracker linking the international pipeline to the domestic development pipeline - surface resource conflicts, sequencing risks, and capacity constraints in real time to program leadership
• Drive cross-functional accountability across Legal, Finance, Engineering, and Operations: track commitments made in program reviews, follow up on open action items, elevate blockers proactively, and ensure teams are moving at the pace the program requires
• Own the end-to-end program plan for network backbone and fiber connectivity at each new market and site - from route planning and carrier/dark fiber selection through contracting, construction, splicing, acceptance testing, and lit service turn-up - and hold the critical path against data center RFS dates
• Manage carrier, dark fiber provider, subsea consortium, and construction partner deliverables against schedule, quality, and diversity requirements: route diversity and physical path separation, latency budgets, capacity commitments, SLAs, and IRU/lease terms. Partner with Legal, Finance, and Sourcing to move agreements through negotiation and execution on the program timeline
• Ensure all active opportunities and programs progress through required intake, review, and approval gates on schedule - flag deviations, at-risk milestones, and sequencing conflicts before they become delays
• Maintain a connectivity view of the portfolio: fiber route inventory, contracted vs. lit capacity, diversity posture, interconnection footprint, and per-site connectivity readiness - so leadership can see where the backbone constrains growth
• Engage substantively in technical discussions with network engineering and architecture teams - challenge assumptions on route design, capacity planning, and turn-up sequencing, and contribute to problem-solving rather than only reporting status
• Build and continuously improve the systems that make this function scalable: intake workflows, tracking templates, milestone frameworks, and reporting cadences that hold up as the program portfolio grows across domestic and international markets

• 5+ years in technical program management, program operations, or strategic analytics within data center, network infrastructure, telecommunications, or capital-intensive sectors
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and drive consensus in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Solid understanding of hardware development lifecycles
• Comfortable managing external vendors and partners to schedule, quality, and contractual commitments - carriers, dark fiber providers, construction contractors, or equivalent
• Working knowledge of network backbone and fiber infrastructure - long-haul and metro fiber, dark fiber and IRU structures, DWDM/optical transport, interconnection and colocation cross-connects, route diversity, and the mechanics of a fiber build (permitting, ROW, construction, splicing, OTDR acceptance testing, turn-up)
• Proficiency in program management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Sheet)
• Master's degree in Engineering or an MBA
• 10+ years of experience in technical program management within the hardware industry, with a strong focus on Networking hardware technologies
• Experience with networking switch designs for both Infiniband and high speed Ethernet
• Direct experience delivering fiber or network backbone programs: metro/long-haul builds, subsea cable systems or landing stations, carrier capacity procurement, or large-scale interconnection deployments
• Familiarity with hyperscale or cloud network architectures - DCI, backbone/WAN capacity planning, peering and transit strategy, and how connectivity requirements are derived from compute deployment plans
• Experience navigating international telecom permitting, licensing, and regulatory regimes, and coordinating with in-country carriers and construction partners
• Experience working with international manufacturing partners and supply chains
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulatory compliance for hardware products