Group Program Manager - Technical Programs

Volta • Palo Alto, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role
The Group Program Manager, Technical Programs, owns the portfolio of technical programs across Volta — leading a team of program managers and giving company leadership a single, reliable view of how major technical initiatives are progressing. You will set the standards for how programs are run at Volta, resolve competing priorities across the portfolio, and coach the program managers who report to you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience delivering complex data center physical infrastructure programs or large-scale GPU/AI cluster deployments in fast-moving environments.
• Demonstrated experience bridging construction handover and cluster deployment — candidates who are network-only or construction-only will not be a fit.
• Hands-on GPU deployment experience, including: GPU cluster deployment and activation (NVIDIA infrastructure preferred)
• Full-stack secure AI factory deployment across compute, networking, storage, and security layers
• Ability to read, interpret, and operationalize highly technical customer and vendor specifications
• Strong understanding of AI/GPU infrastructure including power density, cooling (CDU/DLC), networking, and deployment sequencing.
• Familiarity with how construction, low-voltage, and commissioning activities affect deployment readiness and sequencing.
• Proven ability to lead through influence — you don't own the execution teams, but you are accountable for delivery outcomes.
• Proven ability to manage vendor and contractor relationships, including understanding schedule and reputational risks.
• Ability to develop and present executive-level program status, risk summaries, and key decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills — able to ensure teams at all levels understand priorities and dependencies.
• Relentlessly resourceful: you thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and drive execution beyond your defined scope without being directed to do so.
• Startup or scale-up experience alongside enterprise pedigree is strongly preferred — candidates who have operated at both ends of that spectrum understand the range of environments this role will demand.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in a hard science, engineering, or a demonstrated track record of technical depth in comparable work.
• Experience delivering programs across multiple concurrent sites or regions, including EMEA, with staggered milestones.
• Experience managing long-lead procurement processes and hardware supply chain constraints that affect deployment timelines.
• Background at a Fortune 100 infrastructure company (NVIDIA, Intel, Dell, Cisco, Verizon, AT&T) combined with startup or scale-up experience.
• Experience managing BPO or contract labor pools during large-scale hardware deployment phases.
• Automation-first mindset with experience identifying and implementing process improvements at scale.
• DCD, PMP, CDCPM, CDCMP, CDCP, or comparable certification(s).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of GPU cluster activations and data center infrastructure programs, from initial strategic planning through operational handoff.
• Drive multi-threaded bring-up programs spanning hardware, networking, power, and cooling — owning plans, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams responsible for construction, infrastructure, network, hardware, ICT, commissioning, and operations, including vendor and contractor partners.
• Anticipate downstream impacts of technical sequencing decisions on capacity, schedule, and cluster performance; identify and resolve blockers before they surface.
• Manage and hold accountable vendors, integration contractors, and third-party service providers across the full deployment lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering to improve cluster turn-up reliability, repeatability, and automation — reducing time-to-serve for new capacity.
• Support network operations and end-to-end physical and logical bring-up, including on-site deployment, rack cabling, and coordination with engineering teams.
• Maintain momentum through changing requirements, tight timelines, and cross-time-zone execution.
• Influence senior executive and c-suite strategic approaches.
• Deliver crisp executive-level program status briefings covering schedule health, risks, key decisions, and escalation paths across a broad portfolio of concurrent programs.
• Translate complex technical requirements — from highly detailed customer RFPs, integration specs, and architecture documents — into actionable plans for engineering, finance, and marketing stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary cross-functional point of contact between engineering, operations, customers, and leadership; code-switch fluently between deeply technical and business-facing audiences.
• Interface with chip and hardware providers to derisk onboarding to new platforms across compute, networking, and cooling stacks.
• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders at all levels — from network engineers to C-suite — with confidence, clarity, and no ego.
• Build and operationalize program mechanisms — roadmaps, milestones, risk registers, RACI matrices, decision logs, and deployment runbooks — that make delivery predictable at scale.
• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for all active programs using tools such as Smartsheet, Confluence, Jira, and Notion.
• Identify bottlenecks and systemic gaps, then drive durable fixes across tooling, process, and partner interfaces.
• Develop scalable playbooks and governance frameworks that create accountability without creating overhead as Volta's deployment footprint grows rapidly.
• Champion automation and digital workflows to eliminate manual effort across the program lifecycle.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success
• Retirement/pension contributions
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
• Generous number of vacation days each year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED