Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure (AI Data Center)

Socket.dev; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Equity

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Winter Break

Parental & Family Leave

L&D allowance

Wellness stipend

Sabbatical

Flexible Work

Office meals

Job summary

Lightning AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join the Infrastructure Delivery team and drive programs across compute, network, storage, hardware, and data center operations. You’ll work with Senior TPMs on complex deployments and gradually lead end-to-end infrastructure programs.

You’ll need strong infra experience, TPM fundamentals, and the ability to learn new domains quickly. This role offers a hybrid work model and a competitive rewards package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, infrastructure program management, or similar.
• Experience driving programs within infrastructure, cloud, platform, SRE, systems, networking, hardware, or datacenter environments.
• Strong program management fundamentals including project planning, milestones, critical path, dependencies and RAID logs.

Responsibilities

• Own defined infrastructure workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables within larger programs.
• Drive day-to-day execution across engineering, operations, vendors, and external partners.
• Build and maintain project plans, critical paths, dependencies, RAID, and execution status.
• Coordinate across Infrastructure Engineering, Network, DC Operations, Platform, Security, Hardware, and other teams.
• Connect engineering execution in Jira to broader infrastructure milestones and delivery commitments.
• Identify blockers and cross-functional dependencies early and drive them through resolution.
• Support hardware deployments, network and storage initiatives, datacenter expansions, migrations, and capacity growth.
• Develop enough technical depth across workstreams to ask the right questions, understand dependencies, and challenge delivery assumptions.
• Provide clear, concise updates on progress, risks, decisions, and mitigation plans.
• Help improve Infra Delivery processes, tooling, documentation, and execution frameworks.
• Progressively take on broader scope toward independently leading end-to-end infrastructure programs.

Skills

Program management

Infrastructure programs

Cross-functional leadership

Security awareness

Communication

Learning agility

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Job description

Lightning AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join the Infrastructure Delivery team and drive programs across compute, network, storage, hardware, and data center operations. You’ll work with Senior TPMs on complex deployments and gradually lead end-to-end infrastructure programs.

You’ll need strong infra experience, TPM fundamentals, and the ability to learn new domains quickly. This role offers a hybrid work model and a competitive rewards package.