Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Center Expansion

At Verda, we're building a fully featured European AI cloud, covering everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale.

We are a full-stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem.

Join Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.

You will own the program that turns a new site or expansion from empty space into live, operational capacity. You will coordinate every team involved and streamline the whole path, from fit-out, through hardware deployment, to a clean handover to operations, so each site comes online faster and more predictably than the last.

• Build and own the master schedule and critical path across every parallel workstream: site fit-out, electrical and thermal build, structured cabling and fiber plant, hardware deployment (rack and stack, InfiniBand and Ethernet fabric, liquid cooled Blackwell and Rubin systems), commissioning, and operational handover
• Coordinate the full cast turning a plan into capacity: Architecture, Electrical, Thermal, Structural, Hardware, Networking, Operations, and Procurement, along with external contractors and OEM partners (including Supermicro)
• Keep dependencies visible, hand offs clean, and decisions moving so no workstream waits on another longer than it has to
• Manage risk, budget tracking, and reporting across the program: RAID logs, stage gates, and the escalations that keep a slip from becoming a stall, always driving toward time to live
• Run the handover to operations: acceptance criteria, punch lists, and documentation, so the Operations team inherits a site that is genuinely ready to run, not one still being finished around them
• Turn each build into a repeatable playbook, so the sequencing, dependencies, and hand offs you get right once become the default for every expansion that follows
• Representative projects: drive a new market site from lease and fit out to first racks online and handed over to operations, on schedule; build the master program plan that sequences fit out, deployment, commissioning, and handover across every team; stand up the expansion playbook so the next site launches faster than the last; own the operational handover so operations inherits a site that is truly ready

• Proven technical program management of complex, multi team infrastructure builds in data center, construction, telecom, or large scale IT deployment
• Ability to build and own a real critical path schedule across many parallel workstreams, and hold every team to it
• Fluency coordinating across engineering, construction and fit out, hardware deployment, networking, and operations teams
• Understanding of the data center build lifecycle (fit out, power and cooling commissioning, structured cabling, GPU/HPC hardware deployment, and operational handover), enough to be credible, with the specialist engineering owned by the respective teams
• Strong risk, dependency, and stakeholder management: RAID logs, stage gates, and clear escalation
• Experience running vendor and contractor relationships against schedule and scope
• Track record standardizing a repeatable delivery process across multiple projects or sites
• Bias toward speed and ownership, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and driving them to a deployed result

• Work mode: Hybrid, office (Helsinki, Finland or London, UK) or remote
• Travel: Significant travel to sites during fit out and deployment phases
• Employment type: Full time and permanent

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move.