Technical Program Manager
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead end-to-end programs for new regions and fleet-wide infrastructure changes. You will maintain milestones, dependencies, owners, risks, and customer commitments; coordinate technical stakeholders; communicate status; and improve processes, automation, tooling, and site checklists.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a technical program manager or technical project lead for infrastructure, data-centre, or cloud programs.
- Technical knowledge of servers, Linux, networking, and storage.
- Experience delivering programs across multiple engineering teams and external vendors.
- Experience with Linear or Jira, written planning, and decision records.
- Ability to manage complex multi-team plans and identify critical paths.
- Written communication skills for engineers, leadership, and customers.
- Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity and rapid change.
Responsibilities
- Run new-region turn-ups from hardware handover through customer readiness across data-centre operations, networking, storage, SRE, platform, and cloud.
- Build and maintain program plans with milestones, owners, dependencies, and critical paths in Linear.
- Turn deployment dates into agreed commitments and flag risks early.
- Ensure every workstream has a named owner and resolve unowned gaps.
- Run fleet-wide infrastructure changes, including OS alignment, network updates, and maintenance windows.
- Own stakeholder communications, including status updates, maintenance notices, and customer-facing dates.
- Maintain program risk registers and drive decisions to closure.
- Run post-mortems and incorporate lessons into future site checklists.
- Collaborate with engineering leads to improve automation, processes, and tooling.
Benefits
- Equity compensation.
- Healthcare.
- Lunch benefits.
- Wellbeing benefits.