Technical Program Manager - Data Center Operations at Material

About the role

Own end to end program management for AI Factories from day 0 through handoff. You'll drive execution across architectural, structural, and technology disciplines, holding the critical path and pushing decisions to closure.

What you'll do

• Own data center operations programs from hardware bring up through steady state

• Build and maintain integrated schedules across facilities, network, and hardware

• Establish governance including milestone, incident and change review, and decision logs

• Build the playbooks, and create the systems that let engineers focus on engineering

• Identify and evaluate new data center sites, assessing power, land, and connectivity against program requirements

• Own vendor and external partner relationships, holding them to scope, schedule, and quality

• Tie operations to business outcomes and customer commitments

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What you'll need

• Experience running complex infrastructure programs

• Ability to keep facilities, engineering, and executive audiences aligned under pressure

• Program governance that adds accountability, not bureaucracy

• Playbooks, templates, and systems that let technical teams move faster

• Demonstrated experience securing data center capacity

• Rolodex of high-impact vendors

What we offer

• Top-tier compensation structured to recognize and retain the best talent

• Meaningful equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

• Parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys

• Flexible PTO

• Paid Holidays

• Relocation support

Equal Employment Opportunity

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.