Job Title: Sr. Technical Program Manager, Physical Infrastructure
Location: Mountain View, CA (Hybrid, 3 days/week, Tue-Thu onsite)
Duration: 3 months
 
Looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to work within internal Physical Infrastructure Program Management team.
 
The right candidate will have demonstrated leadership and technical acumen in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. You will be involved in strategy, inception, and execution of our infrastructure projects, as well as initiating, planning, and executing intermediate-to-large scale cross-functional programs. The ideal candidate has balance of people, organizational, and technical skills, and can execute successfully in situations where authority is not a given. Interaction and leadership across functional lines is essential.
 
Here’s what we focus on:

• Major Infrastructure Buildouts: Designing, expanding, retrofitting, and decommissioning data center capabilities at scale.
• Data Center Operations & Engineering: Driving forecasting, budget alignment, and resource optimization to maximize impact across infrastructure, financial, and product priorities.
• Operational Efficiency: Continuously improving processes and systems to deliver reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable infrastructure.
• AI Readiness: Leading GPU deployments and infrastructure modernization to power advanced AI and machine learning workloads.
• Modernization for Capacity and Network Optimization: Analyze network capacity requirements and coordinate with circuit providers to provision and scale network resources as needed.
• Supply and Procurement: Powering company growth by managing a global portfolio of infrastructure procurement and supply chain networks that keep projects running seamlessly and reliably. From location strategy to portfolio management, this function determines why and how much infrastructure companies need ensuring the right resources are in place to scale for billions of users worldwide.

 Responsibilities:
As a Senior Technical Program Manager in our Infrastructure team, you will:

• Drive Communication and Insights with diverse technical and non-technical audiences that spans from VP to individual contributor, translating complex technical concepts into clear business terms and actionable insights and business impact. Leverage data analysis to define metrics and tell a data-driven story that guides key infrastructure scaling decisions.
• Lead Large-Scale Programs in data center and networking to ensure alignment with business goals and strategic objectives, delivering on schedule and within scope. Manage project interdependencies and technical aspects of project success while enabling broad stakeholder alignment.
• Ensure Clarity and Alignment on program objectives (e.g. data center build-outs), ensuring roles and responsibilities are well-defined. Proactively address conflicts or ambiguities with minimal supervision, keeping teams aligned and on track.
• Manage Stakeholder Engagement by working closely with executive sponsors and change agents to define project scope and requirements, and guide programs through their entire lifecycle. Set appropriate stakeholder expectations, with timely communication and escalations, to maintain executive alignment on critical initiatives.
• Apply formal change management practices to baseline programs at kickoff and evaluate all scope changes for justification and impact, obtaining necessary approvals. Anticipate program risks and issues; develop mitigation plans and solutions that ensure stakeholders remain informed and expectations are met.
• Simplify complex situations to facilitate clear, swift decision-making that keeps projects moving forward. Rapidly acquire domain knowledge and maintain technical understanding to actively participate in discussions with engineers and technical leaders, allowing you to guide decisions even in new or ambiguous areas.
• Optimize & establish end-to-end program processes with stakeholders for gathering and fulfilling requirements. Continuously streamline workflows, tools, and processes to drive efficiency, reliability, and effectiveness in project delivery.
• Ensure project deliverables align with our strategic vision and translate project progress into the context of broader strategic goals. Use business acumen to identify optimization opportunities and drive effective decision-making in line with company strategy.
• Own the successful execution of critical, cross-functional programs from inception through completion. This includes managing executive expectations (communications, escalations, and updates) on high impact projects, and designing processes that ensure high-quality outcomes. You will be responsible for consistently delivering complex projects on schedule and meeting their defined objectives.

 What Makes This Role Exceptional:

• Global Impact at Scale: Lead infrastructure programs that directly enable organization’s mission to create economic opportunity for 1+ billion members worldwide
• Innovation Laboratory: Work with world-class engineering teams on breakthrough technologies including advanced AI acceleration, and sustainable data center innovations
• Executive Visibility & Career Acceleration: Direct partnership with our C-suite and Senior leaders on strategic infrastructure investments, with clear pathways to VP-level infrastructure leadership roles
• Industry Leadership Platform: Opportunity to represent us at premier industry events, contribute to open-source initiatives, and shape industry standards through participation in key consortiums
• Sustainability Pioneer: Lead our commitment to 100% renewable energy and net-zero carbon emissions, driving innovations that will become industry benchmarks
• Flexible Excellence: Hybrid work model with strategic travel to data center locations, combining cutting-edge remote collaboration tools with hands-on facility leadership.

 Basic Qualifications:

• B.S./B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in technical program management pertaining to data centers or closely associated fields (such as roadmap development, data center engineering, etc).

 Preferred Qualifications:
Deep Data Center Technical Expertise

• AI/ML Infrastructure Specialization: Hands-on experience of running programs that oversee designing and deploying cutting-edge AI acceleration infrastructure including GPU clusters, high-bandwidth interconnects, and specialized cooling solutions for next-generation machine learning workloads.
• Brownfield Retrofits & Live Environment Operations: Experience driving programs with Complex infrastructure upgrades including power system modernization (480V to 415V conversions) and cooling retrofits while maintaining 99.99%+ uptime SLAs.
• Capacity Expansion & Scaling: Coordinating procurement, construction, and commissioning to deliver 10MW+ of new capacity within 12-month cycles while managing supply chain constraints.
• Greenfield Construction/Build Management: End-to-end construction program management for ground-up data center builds including contractor selection, construction document management (submittals, RFIs, change orders), MEP constructability reviews, and multi-trade coordination while managing construction budgets and critical path schedules.
• High-Density Power & Cooling Systems: Experience with advanced power distribution architectures (2N, 2N+1 redundancy), PUE optimization achieving sub-1.15 efficiency ratios, and next-generation cooling for AI/GPU workloads exceeding 40kW per rack.
• Enterprise Network Infrastructure: Experience with hyperscale network design including spine-leaf architecture, 400G/800G optics deployment, complete life cycle of Circuit planning and provisioning, and structured cabling supporting multi-tenant environments with strict isolation requirements.
• Physical Security & Compliance: Experience with Enterprise security frameworks (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FISMA) and multi-layered security systems including biometric access controls and threat detection.
• Decommissioning & Sustainable Asset Management: Experience with end-of-life planning including secure data destruction, environmental remediation, and sustainable hardware disposition strategies.
• Site Selection & Greenfield Construction: Complete greenfield development including geotechnical assessments, environmental studies, and utility negotiations for facilities ranging from 10MW to 200MW+ capacity with 24-36 month delivery cycles.

 Core Program & Portfolio Management

• Hyperscale Portfolio Leadership: Experience managing multi-billion-dollar data center portfolios with 10+ concurrent projects across multiple regions, coordinating interdependent timelines and enterprise-scale infrastructure deployments.
• Executive-Level Program Governance: Presenting to Senior and C-suite executives on infrastructure investment strategies, managing program budgets exceeding $500M annually, and delivering quantifiable ROI on large-scale capital expenditures.
• Cross-Functional Matrix Management: Influencing teams of 100+ stakeholders across engineering, construction, procurement, legal, and finance without direct authority while resolving complex multi-party conflicts.
• Advanced Risk & Change Management: Implementing enterprise-grade program management methodologies with sophisticated risk modeling for programs with potential business impact exceeding $1B in revenue dependencies.
• Strategic Innovation Leadership: Experience driving industry-first initiatives and pioneering next-generation data center technologies, with a track record of delivering breakthrough solutions that set new industry standards and competitive advantages.

 Business Acumen & Strategic Leadership:

• Supply Chain & Vendor Management: Managing global supply chains with 18+ month lead times, strategic relationships with Tier 1 construction partners (Turner, DPR, AECOM) and major OEMs (Schneider Electric, Eaton, Vertiv).
• Financial Modeling & Business Cases: Experience with infrastructure financial modeling including TCO analysis and ROI projections, building business cases for capital expenditures ranging from $100M to $2B+.
• Strategic Road mapping: Developing 5–10-year infrastructure roadmaps aligned with business growth, emerging technology trends (edge computing, AI/ML acceleration), and sustainability commitments.
• Regulatory & Environmental Leadership: Navigating data center regulatory landscape including energy efficiency mandates, carbon reporting, and complex permitting processes while driving measurable environmental impact reductions.

 Suggested Skills

• Program Management and Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Network Engineering
• Data Center Infrastructure & Operations
• Infrastructure Automation & Tooling
• AI/ML Infrastructure & GPU Deployment
• Procurement, Operations and Supply Chain
• Strategic Roadmapping; Executive Stakeholder Management

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 71.92/hr.