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Senior Program Manager - Hyperscale Data Center

Job Description

Direct Placement

Title: Senior Program Manager – Hyperscale Data Center Programs

Compensation: Up to $225,000 plus bonus & benefits, commensurate with experience

Location: Denver, CO

Company Description: Our client is an industrial-scale data center construction and operations company. They allocate data center opportunities between bitcoin mining and other high performance computing services, such as AI. They continue to develop their pipeline of power capacity at high-quality data center sites, either for bitcoin mining or HPC.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead multi-project delivery oversight across a portfolio of fast-track hyperscale data center construction projects supporting HPC, AI/ML, and cryptocurrency operations.

This role sits above individual project execution and is responsible for program-level coordination, alignment, and performance across schedule, cost, risk, procurement, and execution readiness. The Senior Program Manager ensures that individual projects do not optimize locally at the expense of portfolio outcomes.

This is a leadership and integration role, not a reporting-only position. The ideal candidate has personally delivered complex projects and now applies that experience to govern, challenge, and accelerate multiple teams simultaneously.

Responsibilities

Program-Level Leadership & Oversight

  • Own delivery oversight for a portfolio of concurrent projects
  • Ensure alignment across projects on:
  • Schedule strategy
  • Procurement sequencing
  • Resource allocation
  • Risk posture
  • Serve as escalation point for cross-project conflicts and constraints

Integration Across Functions

  • Act as the primary integration layer between:
  • Project Management
  • Engineering
  • Procurement
  • Construction
  • Cost Engineering
  • Planning
  • Operations readiness
  • Ensure decisions made in one project do not negatively impact others
  • Drive consistency without enforcing rigidity

Schedule, Cost & Risk Alignment

  • Partner with:
  • Senior Manager, Project Planning
  • Cost Engineering
  • Risk & Compliance
  • Maintain program-level visibility into:
  • Milestone health
  • Cost trends
  • Long-lead exposure
  • Systemic risks
  • Drive early intervention where trends indicate portfolio-level exposure

Governance & Decision Support

  • Support PMO governance processes, including:
  • Gate reviews
  • Executive updates
  • Portfolio reviews
  • Translate project-level data into decision-ready insights for leadership
  • Ensure issues are framed with options and recommendations—not just status

Project Manager Coaching & Enablement

  • Mentor and support:
  • Senior Project Managers
  • Project Managers
  • Challenge assumptions and execution plans constructively
  • Raise execution standards across the organization

Continuous Improvement & Scaling

  • Identify systemic issues and recurring friction points
  • Feed lessons learned into:
  • PMO standards
  • Planning methodologies
  • Procurement strategies
  • Help evolve the PMO from project control into program acceleration

What Success Looks Like

  • Projects move faster because conflicts are resolved early
  • Leadership has clear visibility into portfolio health
  • Program risks are surfaced before they become crises
  • PMs feel supported—not micromanaged
  • Delivery becomes repeatable as scale increases

Qualifications

  • 12–18+ years of experience in:
  • Project management
  • Program management
  • Large-scale construction or infrastructure delivery
  • Proven experience managing:
  • Multiple concurrent, complex projects
  • Strong understanding of:
  • Design-to-construction workflows
  • Procurement and long-lead constraints
  • Schedule-driven execution environments
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in:
  • Lean, fast-moving organizations
  • Strong executive communication and judgment

/ Differentiators

  • Direct experience with:
  • Data center or mission-critical infrastructure projects
  • Experience overseeing:
  • Fast-track or design-build programs
  • Background as a:
  • Senior Project Manager prior to program leadership
  • Comfort balancing:
  • Standardization vs flexibility

Cultural Fit & Expectations

  • Ownership mindset—thinks in outcomes, not tasks
  • Comfortable challenging PMs, vendors, and leadership
  • Calm under pressure with strong prioritization skills
  • Pragmatic—focused on what moves the program forward
  • Trusted judgment over process adherence

Why This Role Matters

  • This role determines whether the company scales cleanly or painfully
  • Program-level decisions protect schedule, capital, and credibility
  • You will directly influence how delivery works across the enterprise
  • Your impact compounds with every additional project awarded

Benefits:

  • 401K
  • Medical / Dental / Vision
  • Free Gym Membership