Sr. Program Manager

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

22d•$244,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Fluidstack exists to make humanity more free by delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. This role is for someone who cares deeply about this problem space and wants to be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. How We Operate: - Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done. - Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible. - First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins. - Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Requirements

You've owned program controls, schedule, cost, and risk, across a portfolio of large capital projects running at the same time.
You've built a reporting cadence that executives actually trust to make decisions, not a deck no one reads.
You catch schedule slips and cost overruns weeks before they surface, because your integrated schedule and risk register are live, not stale.
You've stood up program controls standards or tooling from scratch and gotten multiple teams to actually use them.
You coordinate across construction, procurement, and design without losing track of the interdependencies that break schedules.
You write clearly enough to turn a tangled program status into a decision and a next step for a delivery lead or a CEO.

Nice To Haves

Data center, mission-critical, or large industrial construction.
Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling at portfolio scale.
Earned value management.
Modular or repeatable build programs.

Responsibilities

Run the master schedule and cost controls across a portfolio of concurrent gigawatt-scale data center builds, keeping every site's plan tied to the forward pipeline.
Build the reporting rhythm that gives delivery leads and executives a single source of truth on schedule, budget, and risk across all active programs.
Drive the integrated risk register from identification to mitigation, surfacing schedule and cost exposure weeks before it lands on the critical path.
Stand up the program controls tooling and standards that let a new site plug into the same schedule, cost, and reporting model on day one.
Coordinate across construction, procurement, design, and commissioning to keep interdependencies visible and handoffs clean.