Etched Head of Datacenter Delivery responsible for building turnkey compute capability including site sourcing, datacenter buildout, and operational handover. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering working compute facilities.
Responsibilities
Stay deeply connected to product milestones, production ramps, and bring-up schedules. Translate these into power and capacity forecasts, site selection requirements, and phased delivery plans.
Build a strong sourcing pipeline for sites, power, and equipment. Develop relationships across GPU clouds, datacenter brokers and operators, developers, landlords, utilities, and equipment suppliers to uncover opportunities early.
Own site selection, diligence, and preconstruction. Validate power availability and energization timelines, assess buildout requirements, and establish budgets, permitting paths, and long-lead procurement plans.
Challenge design assumptions and find faster, more cost-effective ways to build. Work with engineering and delivery partners to evaluate design modifications, repurposed facilities, and used or refurbished equipment without compromising safety, reliability, or hardware requirements.
Own datacenter and lab delivery through construction, rack installation, integrated facility and system commissioning, and handover to operations. Be accountable for schedule, budget, safety, and quality, including securing long-lead equipment and coordinating utility readiness.
Build a repeatable turnkey delivery process, including testing, documentation, operator training,and coordination with Legal and Finance to prepare complete facilities and their real estate or leases for sale and transfer.
Build and lead an exceptional delivery team, in addition to coaching and growing the existing team. Hold developers, contractors, and other partners accountable, give leadership clear visibility into risks and tradeoffs, and resolve problems before they affect product milestones.
You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
A track record of delivering large-scale datacenters or similarly complex, power-intensive facilities from site-selection through commissioning and operational handover.
An established network across the datacenter ecosystem and the ability to turn relationships into actionable site, power, and equipment opportunities.
Strong technical judgment across power, cooling, networking, and construction, including the ability to evaluate designs, equipment alternatives, and realistic delivery timelines.
Experience leading teams and managing construction budgets, contractors, and delivery partners against demanding schedules.
Qualification
Required
Track record of delivering large-scale datacenters or similar power-intensive facilities from site-selection through commissioning and operational handover
