Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nscale is looking for a Principal Program Manager specializing in Data Center Deployment. This role focuses on overseeing GPU cluster deployments, managing technical credibility, and ensuring successful execution of cabling and fit-out processes on-site.
Responsibilities
- Own cluster bootstrapping, cabling, and fit-out execution from the ground up
- Use the LLDs as the reference point to check on the floor whether cabling and fit-out are going to plan — not to author or revise the design
- Know every blocker on the floor — and know how to clear it to protect the timeline
- Visit sites frequently during construction; be present onsite through active deployment
- Build relationships with trade vendors and engineering teams grounded in trust and follow-through
- Anticipate repeating technical failure modes across sites and regions, and drive fixes before they recur
- Facilitate technical trade-off decisions between engineering, operations, and customers, and document the rationale
- Bring credible technical input to readiness reviews, grounded in what’s actually happening on the floor
- Influence and solve technical challenges of moderate difficulty independently
- Anticipate programme-level risks — contractual gaps, dependency chains, capacity conflicts — before they materialize
- Run portfolio-level schedule and risk management across concurrent deployments
- Identify cross-programme risk patterns and drive systemic fixes, not just local fixes
- Create clarity across multiple deployments simultaneously — others should be able to operate within the structures you set
- Be the person senior customers and partners trust when delivery is going wrong: composed, credible, and honest under pressure
- Handle politically sensitive situations — vendor underperformance, customer escalations — with sound judgement
- Translate deployment complexity into decision-ready executive narratives
- Deliver leadership reporting that is decision-ready: what’s at risk, what’s needed, and by when
- Drive process and tooling improvements across a portfolio or region
- Deliberately balance standardisation against programme-specific needs
- Develop TPM talent across programmes — stretch strong performers and address underperformance directly
- Train up the next generation of onsite talent; deliver through the people you’ve grown, not just your own output
Skills
- Proven experience as an onsite Technical Program Manager, deployment lead, or equivalent role in data center construction, cluster bootstrapping, or large-scale infrastructure rollout
- Hands-on knowledge of reading and applying LLDs, plus cabling and fit-out processes, to verify onsite work against plan
- Track record of managing multiple concurrent, complex deployments
- Demonstrated ability to bring real technical credibility to readiness reviews
- Experience managing vendor relationships and resolving underperformance
- Strong executive communication skills — able to turn technical complexity into clear, decision-ready narratives
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively and be onsite for extended periods during active deployment phases
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Commission programs
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation
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