Senior Data Center Technology Program Manager
CoreWeave
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly structured Senior Program Manager to govern and enable CoreWeave’s full lifecycle data center design and deployment processes. This role does not execute technical engineering work directly. Instead, you will build and manage the workflows, stage gates, handover kits, documentation, and operating cadence that ensure deep-dive engineering teams operate efficiently and consistently at scale.
You will partner with design, construction, site selection, operations, and R&D groups to keep owners, actions, decisions, and risks on track, ensuring downstream teams receive complete, high-quality information. In parallel, you will help identify, prototype, and productionise new technologies that streamline information flow, reduce cycle times, and improve program-wide technical outcomes.
Travel to US data center sites and CoreWeave hubs is required.
Key Responsibilities
Process Governance & Enablement
- Map current → target workflows across Site Selection, Design, Handover, Buildout, and Deployment.
- Define program governance, including stage gates, entry/exit criteria, RACI, and a unified program playbook.
- Standardise and maintain handover kits (Design Basis, BoMs, as-builts, test results, commissioning outputs, lessons learned).
- Implement defect and escape tracking mechanisms, including root cause analysis and continuous improvement loops.
Program Management Oversight (Not Execution)
- Run the operating cadence: stand-ups, risk reviews, cross-functional syncs, and steering meetings.
- Maintain live RAID logs, action trackers, dependency maps, and decision registers with SLAs.
- Drive cross-team unblocking, escalate critical-path risks, and ensure clear owner accountability.
- Monitor and audit process adherence, publishing compliance reporting and follow-ups.
Information Systems & Reporting
- Establish a single source of truth for milestones, risks, decisions, and handovers.
- Define, measure, and report KPIs such as lead time, cycle time, first-pass yield, on-time %, and decision latency.
- Ensure documentation hygiene, version control, audit trails, and structured knowledge management.
R&D, Prototyping & Productionization
- Identify bottlenecks across design iteration, materials visibility, commissioning, field data capture, and test & turn-up.
- Evaluate potential solutions (COTS, open-source, internal prototypes: e.g., DCIM/CMMS integrations, GIS, automation tooling, digital twins).
- Run proofs of concept with explicit success criteria, ROI analysis, and security/privacy reviews.
- Transition successful PoCs into supported production tools, including runbooks, SLA definitions, training, and change-management processes.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of program or portfolio management experience in complex, multidisciplinary environments (infrastructure, hardware, or construction-adjacent preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to design and govern processes (stage gates, SOPs/MOPs, RACI, continuous improvement frameworks).
- Proven capability running structured operating cadences, maintaining RAID logs, decision registers, and dependency maps.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience defining KPIs, dashboards, and decision SLAs.
- Familiarity with program and information management platforms (e.g., Jira/Asana, Confluence/Notion, Airtable/Smartsheet).
- Experience evaluating and piloting tools or integrations, with structured success criteria and ROI justification.
Preferred
- Exposure to site analysis (GIS), BIM/IFC workflows, digital twins, commissioning processes, or DCIM/CMMS systems.
- Experience with mobile data capture, automation/scripting (Python/JS), SQL/BI, or workflow integrations.
- Understanding of infrastructure or data center design environments and related information flows.
To fulfil our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results
What We Offer
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- Family-level Medical Insurance
- Family-level Dental Insurance
- Generous Pension Contribution
- Life Assurance at 4x Salary
- Critical Illness Cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Work culture focused on innovative disruption
Benefits may vary by location.
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
CoreWeave does not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of CoreWeave and your Terms & Conditions associated with the use of CVs will be considered null and void.
Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy – will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.