General Manager, Data Centers
About The Position
Instawork is seeking a General Manager, Data Centers, to accelerate and scale its rapidly growing presence in the data center industry. This role involves driving strategy, capturing market share, and optimizing execution in a fast-growing sector. The General Manager will be responsible for scaling the connection between Instawork's flexible workers and the labor demands of data center builders, general contractors, operators, and hyperscalers. Key objectives include driving high-impact expansion initiatives, optimizing go-to-market strategy, supercharging supply and demand engines, and accelerating the marketplace flywheel in critical data center hubs.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in commercial construction (specifically mission-critical or data center builds), data center operations, infrastructure scaling, or management consulting within the tech/infrastructure space.
- Understanding of the full lifecycle of a data center, from ground-breaking and construction to commissioning and ongoing facilities management.
- A scaling mindset and extreme bias for action; ability to deliver results in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to build systems that sustain hyper-growth.
- Strategic thinking with a strong grounding in data and execution.
- Comfort with fast iteration, navigating complex enterprise requirements, and solving unstructured problems.
- Proven track record of managing high-growth expansion and optimizing complex operations.
- Highly skilled at working across multiple functions to deliver results.
Responsibilities
- Scale the data center vertical by driving operational excellence, streamlining site-access and safety protocols, standardizing onboarding for construction and hardware deployments, and expanding the footprint in key markets.
- Refine and implement Instawork’s growth strategy for the data center space.
- Cultivate, grow, and own relationships with top-tier general contractors, data center operators, colocation providers, and infrastructure tech giants, transitioning initial pilots into enterprise-wide deployments.
- Deeply understand the unique labor, compliance, and safety requirements of active construction sites and live data center environments.
- Leverage data to anticipate partner pain points and ensure Instawork’s tech and operations can seamlessly support their workforce needs throughout the facility lifecycle.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to move aggressively and iterate on the fly.
- Turn operational friction into scalable, automated processes and act as an internal driver of cross-functional alignment to unblock growth.
- Represent Instawork externally as a thought leader in the data center workforce space.
- Regularly present progress, growth metrics, and strategic recommendations to Instawork's executive leadership.
- Travel extensively to major data center markets.
Benefits
- Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 8 paid company holidays annually
- Phone stipend
- Commuter stipend
- Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
- Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
- Flexible spending plans
- 401K plan
- Perkspot - discount program through Lumity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
