# Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Delivery

**Company:** [Lightning AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightning-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $160k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Networking, Hardware Deployment, Data Centers, Jira, Smartsheet, Capacity Planning, Distributed Systems, Gpu Infrastructure, Ai/Ml Infrastructure, Hpc
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Leads infrastructure delivery workstreams spanning compute, networking, storage, hardware, platform engineering, and data center operations. Requires 5+ years of technical program management experience, strong cross-functional execution, and familiarity with infrastructure environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own defined infrastructure workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables within larger programs.
- Drive day-to-day execution across engineering, operations, vendors, and external partners.
- Build and maintain project plans, critical paths, dependencies, RAID logs, and execution status.
- Coordinate across Infrastructure Engineering, Network, Data Center Operations, Platform, Security, Hardware, and other teams.
- Connect engineering execution in Jira to broader infrastructure milestones and delivery commitments.
- Identify blockers and cross-functional dependencies early and drive them through resolution.
- Support hardware deployments, network and storage initiatives, data center expansions, migrations, and capacity growth.
- Develop technical depth across workstreams to understand dependencies and challenge delivery assumptions.
- Provide clear updates on progress, risks, decisions, and mitigation plans.
- Improve infrastructure delivery processes, tooling, documentation, and execution frameworks.
- Progressively take on broader scope toward independently leading end-to-end infrastructure programs.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, infrastructure program/project management, or a similar field.
- Experience driving programs in infrastructure, cloud, platform, SRE, systems, networking, hardware, or data center environments.
- Strong program management fundamentals, including project planning, milestones, critical path, dependencies, RAID logs, and stakeholder management.
- Ability to understand technical architecture, requirements, and dependencies without implementing the engineering directly.
- Proven ability to drive execution across multiple technical teams without direct authority.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to operate in evolving requirements, priorities, ownership, and processes.
- High learning agility and interest in data center and AI infrastructure.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience supporting compute, network, storage, cloud infrastructure, hardware deployment, or capacity expansion programs.
- Experience working with hardware vendors, colocation providers, VARs, or external partners.
- Experience with Smartsheet and Jira.
- Familiarity with infrastructure capacity planning or hardware lifecycle management.
- Exposure to GPU infrastructure, AI/ML infrastructure, HPC, or distributed systems.
- Experience in a startup, high-growth company, or similarly fast-moving technical environment.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: **$160,000–$220,000 USD**.
- Discretionary bonus and meaningful equity component.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, floating holidays, and a two-week winter break.
- Paid parental and family leave.
- Annual learning and development allowance.
- Wellness and work-from-home stipends.
- Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service.
- Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model for office-based teams.
- Complimentary in-office meals.

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