Onsite Technical Program Manager — Data Center Deployment (APAC)

Location:

Onsite at active construction/deployment sites (multiple regions)

Travel:

Mandatory — frequent site visits during construction; extended onsite presence during active deployment phases

About the Role

We’re looking for a Doer — someone who lives and breathes the site. This role sits at the center of our GPU cluster deployments: bootstrapping clusters, using low-level designs (LLDs) as the reference to check that cabling and fit-out are going to plan on the floor, and unblocking whatever stands between the plan and a working, delivered site.

You’ll carry technical credibility into design and readiness reviews, hold the line when trade-offs need to be made between engineering, operations, and the customer, and be the person senior stakeholders trust when a deployment is going sideways. You’re warm and approachable on the floor, but authoritative when it counts — the kind of person trade vendors and engineers genuinely want to work with.

This is not a desk job. You’ll be on the ground through construction and practically living onsite during active deployment.

What You’ll Do

• On the floor
• 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
• Technical judgment and credibility
• 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
• Program and risk management
• 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
• Stakeholder and executive communication
• 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
• Process and people
• 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
• Who Thrives in This Role
• Doers. You don’t manage the site from a dashboard — you’re on the floor.
• Warm, compassionate, yet authoritative. People follow you because they trust you, not because of your title.
• Trusted under pressure. When a delivery is going wrong, you’re the calm, honest voice in the room.
• Builders of people. You grow talent around you and take real satisfaction in their success.
• Comfortable with ambiguity at scale. You can hold multiple concurrent deployments in your head at once and still see the patterns across them.

Requirements

• 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
• Travel is mandatory for this role.
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